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EdTech Promised to Change How Students Learn, But the Real Revolution Lies Within Us

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In my first year of teaching, I was blessed to have a SMART board in my classroom. At least that was the case for a few months before a screw fell from the ceiling and landed in the middle of my classroom. My excitement was palpable given that this fancy piece of technology was (and is) a luxury for most educators.

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TEACHER VOICE: College students who lack basic skills can learn to love reading and writing

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percent literacy rate , the seventh-lowest among the 50 states, and one of the highest school dropout rates. In 2021, New Mexico had the fourth-lowest per capita income ; many of my students came from low-income families where they were encouraged to earn and not to learn. In 2017 New Mexico had an 83.5

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PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process

The Hechinger Report

A growing problem in American classrooms is that teachers don’t resemble the students they teach. There’s a surprisingly large drop in prospective Black teachers as they’re finishing their coursework and about to start teaching internships in classrooms. classrooms. Eighty percent of the nation’s 3.8

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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

The Hechinger Report

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. Missing just two days of school per month has been tied to lower reading proficiency in third grade, lower math scores in middle school and higher dropout rates in high school.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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As the disruptions and changes continue to unfold during 2021, he recommends using an adaptive system design to change the structures and collective mindsets within school districts. Conner also identified three levels of innovation that need to occur, starting with the application of efficiency logic to smaller systems like classroom design.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then. Overall, public school enrollment fell by 710,000 students between the 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 school years in the 21 states plus Washington, D.C., that provided the necessary data.

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