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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We Subscribe today!

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Report: 41 percent of schools are under-connected

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A new report details the importance of state advocacy in connecting schools, students to broadband internet. A new report from SETDA and Common Sense Kids Action focuses on K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity, state leadership for infrastructure, state broadband implementation highlights, and state advocacy for federal broadband support.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

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It’s a common story: the energetic principal who comes into a school, revamps the curriculum, creates innovative learning practices, and then leaves with no sustainability plan. First, districts need to address the digital divide/homework gap in meaningful ways. Another aspect of the digital divide includes teachers.

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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten 

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Related: How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students. Subscribe today!

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Lead for Digital Equity with These Community Engagement Strategies

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Since 2016, CoSN has been honoring innovative school districts that address digital equity. This year, the prestigious Community Leadership Award for Digital Equity was awarded to Louisa County Public Schools in Virginia. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. Join the Community.

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Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

The Hechinger Report

Rita Green, the Washington state education chair for the NAACP, volunteered on the parent-teacher group at Rainier Beach High from 2007 to 2016. Parents from both schools believe they learned how to share power and advocate together for greater change within a system that often rewards a vocal minority of white voters. “It

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Final Schedule Published - Library 2.0 Mini-Conference on "Urban Librarianship: Embracing Challenges and Opportunities"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

mini-conference is a chance to share and to learn the ideas, innovations, tools, and techniques that will help all library leaders in their work with people and their communities. This situates Urban libraries in the epicenter of the communities they serve and also presents new opportunities to impact them at even greater levels.