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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

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And it raises questions about gender and race: How can schools inspire more girls and students of color to pursue STEM? Many educators are looking beneath the surface inequities of devices and connectivity to consider how digital tools can revolutionize learning and address even deeper inequities. the human heart and the atom).

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This Year’s ASU+GSV Summit Is Hard to Describe. Here’s Our Best Attempt.

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It’s led by a tandem of familiar faces in the edtech investing scene: Learn Capital partner-and-everyman Michael Staton, and Don Burton, who has built his own portfolio of dozens of startups through his time running the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator and EDGE Edtech Accelerator. I hope that’s not our legacy.” Nate Davis, CEO of K12 Inc.,

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.” .” Via The Wall Street Journal : “Number of Students Applying for Federal Aid Rises 6%, After Several Years of Decline.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) This product is a piece of s**t,” one doctor said.

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