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Can A New Online Learning Platform Improve Employment For Those With Visual Impairment?

Edsurge

Despite being capable of working a variety of jobs, people who are blind or visually impaired tend to have low job placement rates, low salaries and an unusually high underemployment rate. The company, Clusive, Inc., The company acts as a training provider to state vocational rehab and blind services agencies across the country.

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Education in the Era of COVID-19: Why Connection Matters

Digital Promise

With digital learning likely to stretch into the fall due to COVID-19, how can we ensure every student has equitable access to powerful learning opportunities? The crisis has shone a harsh light on the digital divide in the United States, surfacing thoughtful debate and long-overdue discussion around the equity gap.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. If the control involved 12 hours of work a week over one semester, but the treatment required only 4 hours a week, that’s a 3x improvement in learning efficiency.

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Get Started with Digital Citizenship in Your District

edWeb.net

Following the district vision, and in search for a free curriculum, Theresa found Common Sense’s Digital Citizenship Curriculum and began from there. Then, they figured out what they needed to satisfy for required federal E-rate guidelines. Life Schools started small in the first year. First, they identified their desired goals.

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New Insights on Teachers’ Ed-Tech Ambitions, Abilities Revealed in Survey

Marketplace K-12

Many companies trying to find a market in K-12 schools face a question that fills them with anxiety, if not outright dread: How much technology can teachers handle? If technology is seamless and easy for educators to manage, it can clear the path for a digital provider. De Jesus for Education Week.

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Half of school leaders expect significant impact from ESSA

eSchool News

Survey questions ranged across the education spectrum and included the impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), technology-supported learning, increasing graduation rates, and serving special needs students. Jeffrey Cohen, Catapult Learning’s CEO, cited the survey results as both timely and significant in their findings. “As

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Confronting the New Reality of Today’s Student Mental Health Crisis

Lightspeed Systems

An overview of how to collaborate across functions to ensure student safety 24/7. 2:38 We know that the Digital Learning Divide refers to inequitable access to technology and digital resources for learning. And we want to know what are the response rates that you’re getting on your parent surveys.

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