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4 Essential Steps to Secure Funding for Hybrid Classroom Technologies

Edsurge

For districts in need of additional technologies to make hybrid classrooms successful, here's a closer look at the new funding available and how to secure it: ESSER Funds and How to Use Them The original CARES Act included an education stabilization fund called Elementary and Secondary Education Emergency Relief (ESSER).

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. Throughout the year, we’ve seen districts and edtech companies fall victim to these attacks, compelling districts to adopt a defensive stance.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. Throughout the year, we’ve seen districts and edtech companies fall victim to these attacks, compelling districts to adopt a defensive stance.

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DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable

eSchool News

And this creates a digital divide between those who can afford it and those who cannot. So, unless, the way I see it, you have to get other outside [funding and support] sources such as tech companies and other companies, grants, donations, but outside of that, the funding is not there. That’s what this is designed to do.

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Why the Education Expenses are Rising and How to Deal with it?

Evelyn Learning

Bill Gates dropped out of college at the age of 20 and made a revolutionizing company, “Microsoft”. A lot of problems are going around related to social-economic aspects, historical aspects, digital divide, etc. But, tertiary and post secondary education are subsidized to a certain extent”.

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Education Stimulus Funding: The Who, What, and Why

edWeb.net

billion went to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). There are opportunities here for assessment companies. Districts must use the money on evidence-based programs that help stem learning loss, close the digital divide, and address social and emotional learning needs. CARES Act (Mar.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? The partnership aims to bridge the digital divide in Pittsburg by offering parents refurbished computers free of charge.

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