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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

public education system falls in the middle of international quality rankings. Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. Over the past two decades, the FCC through its E-Rate program has connected just about every U.S.

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Half of school leaders expect significant impact from ESSA

eSchool News

Survey questions ranged across the education spectrum and included the impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), technology-supported learning, increasing graduation rates, and serving special needs students. Training staff emerged as the biggest challenge, with procuring and maintaining hardware a close second.

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

The Innovative Educator

The system is set up for failure from the start if they fail to provide the most basic access students need today. 2) The filtering divide Schools that service children living in poverty receive e-rate funding which requires schools to filter the internet.

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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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