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K–12 Leaders Get Creative to Make the Case for Network Upgrades

EdTech Magazine

Two years ago, IT Services Director AJ Phillips needed to persuade her school board to purchase new network infrastructure, so she tapped her prior experience as an elementary school teacher and presented a show-and-tell. Educate Stakeholders About Cost Comparisons and Success Stories. Thu, 06/20/2019 - 12:02.

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The science of catching up

The Hechinger Report

A seminal 2016 study sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments on improving education, from expanding preschool to reducing class size, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring was especially effective in increasing learning rates for low-performing students. Credit: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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“Tired of fighting that fight”: School districts’ uphill battle to get good deals on ed tech

The Hechinger Report

For some hardware, districts can comparison shop. While purchasing scenarios differ from product to product, and exact comparisons can be difficult to make because of variations in things such as warranties and device memories, price disparities in product costs remain a constant. million, a savings of just 0.66 million bill to $3.15

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

The Hechinger Report

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. By comparison, the national average is about 20.4 Schools stand to receive $2.4

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Unfortunately, many students leaving elementary school are still not proficient in reading, and that creates a significant barrier to their ability to learn across subjects. Today, over 2.9 Diane Myers, Ph.

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 And Anna Egalite, an education professor at North Carolina State University, found similar effects for black elementary school students in Florida matched with black teachers. Her mother, who works in the kitchen at a Chuck E. Hispanics account for 21.5 Not like me.”.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Unfortunately, many students leaving elementary school are still not proficient in reading, and that creates a significant barrier to their ability to learn across subjects. Today, over 2.9 Diane Myers, Ph.

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