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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

According to Census Bureau data from 2016, nearly 82 percent of all households in the U.S. Investing in professional development so teachers effectively personalize the learning experience for their students. Disparities in internet access are tied to geographic isolation and differences in income, among other factors.

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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017). ” He said school districts shouldn’t simply hand over the federal plan to a technology director and have them be solely responsible for implementing it.

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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten 

The Hechinger Report

In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time. Related: How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students.

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One solution for boosting Latino graduation rates

The Hechinger Report

The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and the Latino student advocacy group Excelencia in Education have joined forces to introduce an initiative this academic year to shrink this gap by helping working, adult students. percent in 2016. Santiago, a co-founder of Excelencia, in a statement about the initiative.

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Using teacher-leaders to improve schools

The Hechinger Report

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization. Teachers essentially get real-time professional development targeted to the exact areas in which they need to improve.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Since then, the numbers have slipped to the single digits, with just 5 percent of the class of 2016 finishing within six years, according to a data analysis from the charter school network. Still, the network dispatches experts on finance, community engagement, student experience, curriculum and professional development.

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How Cleveland revamped its preschool programs in just five years

The Hechinger Report

In September 2016, that all changed abruptly. Program officials have visited each center, determined what is standing in the way of these centers improving in quality, and are providing tailored “intensive” professional development, technical assistance, and materials as needed. Her teachers did not have enough training.

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