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These schools are leveraging E-Rate for a complete digital transformation

eSchool News

In a 2016 survey conducted by the Consortium for School Networking (COSN), 90 percent of IT administrators at K-12 schools expect that curricula will be at least 50 percent digital over the next three years. Next page: How schools are currently using E-Rate for digital success). billion in 2017.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

This week, I also enhanced the K-12 Cyber Incident Map by adding video clips of news reports of select incidents since 2016. Squared Online" bridges the gap between the classic classroom experience, where you can’t get scale, and e-learning that can sometimes be a bit dry. What then of the students? If not, why not?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

This week, I also enhanced the K-12 Cyber Incident Map by adding video clips of news reports of select incidents since 2016. Squared Online" bridges the gap between the classic classroom experience, where you can’t get scale, and e-learning that can sometimes be a bit dry. What then of the students? If not, why not?

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

K., & Bruegmann, E. A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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How one district solved its special education dropout problem

The Hechinger Report

He remembers thinking it looked like a book you’d find in an elementary school, with a picture of the numbers 1 through 9 written in the sand of a beach on the cover. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem. In Maryland, 14 percent of students in special education dropped out of school.

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Another way to quantify inequality inside colleges

The Hechinger Report

Black Virginians were more likely to have grown up in poor neighborhoods and attended elementary, middle and high schools with other poor students, less experienced teachers and fewer resources. Blacks and whites with the same smarts and money ought to be graduating at the same rates, right?

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Web Filtering: equally beneficial for your 5-year-old & 15-year-old

Securly

Web filtering is required by law, as long as schools wish to receive e-rate funding to supply their digital classrooms. Web filtering does vary dramatically from elementary, middle, to high school – however, it offers additional aspects often forgotten that are equally optimal for students of any age.