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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learningbroadband internet beyond school walls. If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem.”. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If

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Educational Technology Serves Equity When Used with Purpose

Edsurge

Advocating for changes that would uproot the foundation of long-standing institutions, policies and practices can quickly begin to feel like an uphill battle, no matter how many educators are working for the cause. students still lack the broadband capability necessary for digital learning.

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Bringing Tech to the Tundra: Educators Are Bridging the Technology Gap in Alaska

Edsurge

After conducting a survey in 2015, district leaders found that while a surprising number of students have access to broadband, the biggest obstacle to technological access rural students face is the lack of devices. They work closely with the district’s IT department to implement the policies. Others live in familiar American suburbs.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience. Most schools are completely unprepared – or, at best, woefully underprepared – for coronavirus and virtual learning.

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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

It was geared to promoting school choice in all its forms mainly through grantees who advocated for it at the policy level. It also helped launch KIPP Empower Academy in Los Angeles whose blended design was Anthony Kim’s first project that led to the formation of Education Elements. So we were off and running.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. They showed some trepidation. A Sustainable Path Toward Equity.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition)

Doug Levin

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. You know how to reach me if you want to talk… Note to self: When deleting tweets in bulk, remember not to delete my keybase proof.

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