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Working Toward Digital Equity in K–12 Education

EdTech Magazine

The Consortium for School Networking’s “Driving K–12 Innovation: 2021 Hurdles + Accelerators” report describes digital equity as three interrelated concepts: digital foundations, learning conditions and meaningful learning opportunities. Yet recent data from Future Ready Schools shows that 16.9 million households are…

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New Education Policy Roadmap Aims to Ensure High School Graduates in Every State are ‘Future-Ready’

eSchool News

CHICAGO – Parents and educators agree that a key goal of K-12 education is to ensure that students are “future-ready”—with the knowledge, skills, and drive to navigate their careers and lives. Employers and the evidence point to a need for social and emotional skills within career and workforce education.

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?Reports: On Leadership from Future Ready

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The Office of Educational Technology (OET), in partnership with the American Institutes for Research, developed a research-based synthesis that defines a set of 27 policies and practices within four focus areas: collaborative leadership, personalized student learning, personalized professional learning and robust infrastructure.

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Launching Future Ready Librarians

NeverEndingSearch

The Future Ready Librarians initiative launched at ALA and ISTE this week. The Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative itself launched at the White House in October 2014. The Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative itself launched at the White House in October 2014. million learners.

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To Develop Future-Ready Students, Project-Based Lessons Teach Real World Skills

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Incorporating social-emotional learning and character education into K-12 classrooms improves students’ lives—measurably. We can no longer afford to view social-emotional learning and character education as pleasant supplements to the curriculum. Higher test scores. Better graduation rates. Increased lifetime earning potential.

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How to make competency-based education possible through an intelligent learning platform

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All educational acts should and usually do revolve around them. The purpose of education is no longer to pass on theoretical knowledge. What matters the most is to equip students with future-ready skills to become well-rounded adults ready to thrive in their lives and careers. What is competency-based education?

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Future Ready Schools heralds school librarians as leaders

eSchool News

New project highlights critical role school librarians play in supporting Future Ready goals. Future Ready Schools (FRS), led by the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) in partnership with the U.S. Future Ready librarians embrace change and innovation in education,” said Ray. “As