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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. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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States can change the way they think about education, but will they?

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When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. Thousands of educators from across the country are in San Antonio, Texas, this week for the annual iNACOL conference that seeks to explain and promote these methods to a broader spectrum of schools.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

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It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study. Their advocacy work has already begun, one high school senior at a time. “At

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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.

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Teachers Can Positively Impact Education Policy, We Just Have to Use Our Teacher Voice

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This pattern is not unique in education policy spaces. To be clear, this lack of teachers testifying was not the fault of educators. Because getting involved in policy-making can be so tricky to navigate, this often results in giving up before even getting started.

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Are Workplace Benefits a Viable Solution to the Child Care Crisis?

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“If you leave it to employers to essentially figure out child care for their employees, I think that’s not going to get us where we want to be as a country,” says Laura Bornfreund, senior fellow and advisor on early and elementary education with the Education Policy program at New America, a Washington-based think tank. “I

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