Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

ReadyRosie founder and CEO Emily Roden says helping children by engaging their parents has helped her company grow to serve 6,500 Head Start programs, childcare centers and elementary schools. Roden worked as an elementary school teacher and in sales for Pearson before founding ReadyRosie in 2012.

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Strategy Video Company Smartphone 120

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Elementary students are not immune to serious student safety issues. As a result, school district IT teams will look to vendors and broadband solution providers to support other use cases in 2021 that go beyond COVID-19, such as school bus security cameras and indoor IoT to help manage building operations (e.g. temperature, lighting).

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 145

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Rather than using their school buses to bring students to schools, the district turned its buses into mobile service providers that could deliver meals and other types of support to students, while also serving as internet connection hotspots.

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EdTech Guidelines Policies Secondary 97

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. Black Southerners, who already suffer from some of the worst health outcomes in the country, have contracted and died from the virus at a disproportionately higher rate. Almost 40 percent of households in Washington County don’t have broadband service at home.

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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In June, the group mobilized. While it was the outcome Teller had hoped for, it also “led to a frenzy of figuring out what that looks like,” she says. A first-grade teacher at Portland’s Longfellow Elementary School wrote to Teller about how the experience is going so far. The students have adapted easily, the teacher said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Historically, education has been the primary vehicle that drives upward mobility. We still have not realized the guarantee to an equal education promised more than 50 years ago by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Fourth, it’s connected with broadband and devices. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Accessibility Secondary Education Broadband 84

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

But many students live in threadbare mobile homes and modest, low-slung dwellings on the edge of town. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. They believed it would lead to better outcomes for kids.”.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40