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Equity Is Not Just About Access. It’s About Success.

Digital Promise

Visitors also previewed a mobile innovation lab (a bus equipped with maker equipment, with a great Twitter account ), which will soon give students across the district access to maker learning opportunities.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. In the year leading up to consolidation, the commission held town hall meetings in person and on Twitter to build community support for the new plan. Over the summer, the administration worked round the clock to create more classrooms and add mobile buildings.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - Great, GREAT Keynotes - MiniCon - ISTE Unplugged! - Striving for Failure?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

View the session live on our YouTube channel, and join the Twitter conversation using the hashtag #appyhour. Tuesday, April 22nd at 1pm CoSN - Smart Education Networks by Design , New advances in technology, including mobile devices, are making it possible for students to learn anytime, anywhere and to experience personalized learning.

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