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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

The newly released National Education Technology Plan from the U.S. Department of Education aims to highlight that disparity and many other inequities in the use and design of ed tech, as well as access to it. The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

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In a study conducted at Carnegie Mellon University in 2016, researchers monitored the brain activity of study participants as they confronted complex math problems that demanded creative mathematical reasoning.

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An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

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Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. The 2016 Ghost Ship fire that claimed 36 lives occurred a few blocks from the Code Next lab.

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As Student Need Rises, More College Faculty Set Up Emergency Aid Funds

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As of fall 2022, Stony Brook is one of 33 higher ed institutions where students can apply for money through a local FAST Fund to help cover an education expense or address a basic life need. Kirtley credits the spread of the model in part to the efforts of educator unions. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?”

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. And the lessons about independence and self-advocacy lead to kids who know how and when to ask for help.

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Spotlight swings to for-profit middlemen that may be driving up the cost of online higher education

The Hechinger Report

While attention is often paid to for-profit universities and colleges whose students sometimes end up with worthless degrees or no degrees at all, this other kind of profit-driven business has more quietly inserted itself into higher education. GMU connected Baker with MarketWatch in response to an inquiry about its partnership with Wiley.).

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Students Call for Hands-On Civic Education to Prepare Them for Democracy

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So he’s been trying to spread awareness about what he says is the student perspective on the bill, that it will decrease education funding for public schools. After the 2016 election, Jefferson started to become more politically aware. While the controversy pushed some people away, Ta found they enjoyed having critical conversations.

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