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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. And, accessibility technologies support learner variability and people with disabilities by ensuring navigation and information display is available in multiple ways.

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Half of school leaders expect significant impact from ESSA

eSchool News

New survey reveals how school leaders feel about policy, tech-supported learning. The overall results of the inaugural survey reflect school leaders’ focus on meeting individual student needs and building teacher and leadership capacity within schools. Catapult Learning, Inc.

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8 bids later: The power of group negotiations

Education Superhighway

The Northeast Board of Cooperative Educational Services (NE BOCES) provides technology support for 12 Colorado school districts that all needed faster, more reliable Internet access to keep up with growing demands for digital learning. The consortium’s path to better digital access took a positive turn in August 2016.

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8 bids later: The power of group negotiations

Education Superhighway

The Northeast Board of Cooperative Educational Services (NE BOCES) provides technology support for 12 Colorado school districts that all needed faster, more reliable Internet access to keep up with growing demands for digital learning. The consortium’s path to better digital access took a positive turn in August 2016.

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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. Stay tuned on The Innovative Educator blog for the additional considerations in future posts.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

But we knew that unless we proactively built bridges to ensure everyone could be included in the benefits of new technologies, each cycle of innovation would leave people further behind. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

But we knew that unless we proactively built bridges to ensure everyone could be included in the benefits of new technologies, each cycle of innovation would leave people further behind. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

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