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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Some studies suggest achievement gaps that exist beyond the third grade are difficult to close regardless of the intervention. Studies show that low-income and minority students are less likely to use the Internet or own a computer. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Some studies suggest achievement gaps that exist beyond the third grade are difficult to close regardless of the intervention. Studies show that low-income and minority students are less likely to use the Internet or own a computer. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Edsurge : “As Bootcamps Look for Novel Ways for Students to Pay For Their Studies, Many Try ‘ Deferred Tuition ’ ” Do note how student financial aid startups are still raising venture capital (and how now, I guess, ed-tech publications cover these stories when before they insisted these weren’t ed-tech).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource – a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools – called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). ” Also via The Hechinger Report : “The future of proficiency-based education.”