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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. Technology, and especially the internet and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, has become ubiquitous in our daily lives and affordable even to our public schools.

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The 2 Biggest Barriers To Learning in Modern Schools - Consideration 7

The Innovative Educator

2) The filtering divide Schools that service children living in poverty receive e-rate funding which requires schools to filter the internet. The negative effects of content filters on Internet access in public libraries and schools are demonstrable and documented.