The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Rising fourth graders listen as a teacher reads a book at an elementary school summer program in Silver Spring, MD. The seminal Coleman Report published in 1966 showed that student outcomes inside the classroom are predicated on their circumstances outside the classroom. Summer has always been a time when gaps get wider.

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Learning Software Digital Divide Broadband 116

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That’s vastly better than assigning students homework that doesn’t provide feedback and resembles busy work, be it photocopied word searches in the elementary grades or repetitive math worksheets across the school years. Those dull, outdated assignments don’t further learning goals and only serve to disengage students.

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Tools Laptops Analysis Broadband 79

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In two other counties, three rural high schools reached that postsecondary enrollment for 76 percent (143 students), 82 percent (98 students) and 87 percent (159 students) of their 2019 graduates, the foundation reports. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.

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How To Education Report Accessibility 140

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

A teacher at an elementary school in a Boston suburb leads students through a story creation session using Pixie. Today Northborough and Southborough public schools have a much faster connection via fiber optic lines—35 Mbps up/down speeds at the elementary and middle schools and 150 Mbps at the high schools.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Here are just a few of their stories. Safari Books.

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Adobe Education Tablets iPad 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., This disparity in home computer and internet access, dubbed the “homework gap,” was a slow-burning problem for most districts in the days when schools were in session and students could get online at libraries, after-school programs, coffee shops and other community gathering spots.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. The town’s library system stepped in to assist the district in buying books, organizing the collection, and other management tasks.

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Libraries Data Broadband Report 104

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. Gentz reports that there has been confusion about deadlines, many of which are federal but some of which are state imposed.

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EdTech Guidelines Policies Secondary 95

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. In the fall of 2009, ChiTech’s first students filed into its squat, 1950s-era building of drab yellow brick, an abandoned elementary school in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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Report Study Software Meeting 64

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

This computing device return-and-repair ritual looks different from the end-of-year textbook and library book return that was a staple of decades past. The pandemic-era jump for elementary school students was even larger: from under half to 84 percent. But it’s increasingly common. Accessibility was a particular concern in Mississippi.

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Broadband Survey Laptops Analysis 119

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference is almost here! Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. and aims to address some of the obstacles to broadband adoption -- in terms of cost, access, relevance, and digital literacy.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

According to a CoSN report , more than half of school districts and about one-third of public schools in the United States are in rural areas. These rural districts face the four significant challenges: broadband access, funding, people, and understanding the “why.” Challenges. Matthew Dillon is a native of Columbia, Mississippi.

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Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 97

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

No matter who I talk to, they tell me: ‘This is the hardest year that I’ve ever had in education,’” one school leader told The Hechinger Report this fall. The Hechinger Report’s stories investigated the growing inequities, the deepening crises, the frustration and the divisions that made problems harder to solve. Then came 2021. “No

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Report Kaplan Elementary Broadband 104

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. As defined by the CoSN report, accelerators are megatrends that drive change.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 77

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

A lot of our kids don’t have internet access,” said Coe, who knows students who routinely head to the library or the town’s McDonald’s to get online. The Federal Communications Commission estimates that about 21 million Americans lack broadband access, with an independent research group indicating the actual number is twice as high.

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Accessibility How To Broadband Advocacy 144

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Library of Congress ) The photos, shot in black and white, are from the early 20th century, and the disease in question was tuberculosis. The district is spending another $27,000 to pay the 18 outdoor learning liaisons it has hired to manage materials, sanitize buckets and other supplies and report to Teller. between 1900 and 1920.

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Learning Analysis Assessment Groups 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

schools accessing high-speed broadband, and devices all but ubiquitous in the classroom, the question is no longer whether teachers and students are using technology, but how. Teachers themselves report a lack of confidence using technology tools in the classroom. With 99 percent of U.S. On its face, that sounds like a good thing.

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Technology Chromebook Broadband EdTech 100

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But there is one essential that has always been scarce in this part of the country and that she couldn’t stock up on: Broadband access. Credit: Kelli Johansen for The Hechinger Report. Perry’s home isn’t wired for broadband access. Credit: Kelli Johansen for The Hechinger Report. That compares with 85 percent nationally.

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Broadband Accessibility Report Company 127

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

–Michele Dick, Education Specialist, Wacom With the release of the Nation’s Report Card and ongoing school staffing shortages, states and professional organizations will need to rethink the benefits of technology in supporting students in special education programs. . It is all about the balance.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 70

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. We’re doing everything we can,” says Mr. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. After the camp, 63 percent reported an interest in the field.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

.” In other Department of Education bureaucratic nightmares, “Dozens of Colleges’ Upward Bound Applications Are Denied for Failing to Dot Every I,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. ” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.”

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” “More than 150 House and Senate Democrats sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter Monday that objected to her department’s recently announced shift in how it chooses the contractors that service federal student loans ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. State and Local) Education Politics. Via Reuters : “U.S.

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

E-rate is the name commonly used to describe the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, established as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. “Progress,” the FCC boasted in the report. What can E-rate tell us about the relationship between politics and ed-tech? Who has benefited?

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E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” More on the bill via Inside Higher Ed. .”

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50