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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2011 $100,000,000 (President Obama’s request: $0).

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Why I Still Believe in the iPad’s Positive Impact on Classrooms

Edsurge

Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009. Here are five: Mobility: Students can take an iPad anywhere. Recording Features: There are built-in cameras and microphones.

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Can you fix middle school by getting rid of it?

The Hechinger Report

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. They worried that their younger children might be corrupted, bullied or worse. They said, ‘don’t do this to us again.

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What Kids Need for Optimal Health and School Engagement

MindShift

Research shows that including a variety of stakeholders—from parents to students to school teachers and staff—in the design and implementation of a school change is critical to its success (Mitra&Gross, 2009; Osberg, Pope, &Galloway, 2006; Rice, 2011).Will Will everyone buy into your plans for change?

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K-8 or Middle School: What Works for Early Adolescents Depends on Many Factors

MindShift

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. They worried that their younger children might be corrupted, bullied or worse. They said, ‘don’t do this to us again.

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Homework: Good or Bad? Here Is What Research Says

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2010, 2011; Trautwein & Lüdtke, 2007, (Xu, 2010a). For elementary students, homework should not be tied to any academic grades or achievement expectation. The Elementary School Journal, 60, 212–224. Along similar lines, studies have also confirmed the correlation between autonomy and positive performance. Tymms, P., &

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How Can Schools Help Kids With Anxiety?

MindShift

Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: via Apple Podcasts | via Stitcher | via NPROne | via Spotify. In 2004, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that about a third of adolescents (ages 13-18) have been or will be seriously affected by anxiety in their lifetimes. “He was kinda my safe space.

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