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BYOD Begins With Trust and Respect

A Principal's Reflections

Yes, we have policies in place, the right infrastructure, and support our teachers with professional development and guidance. Our BYOD initiative at NMHS has succeeded and grown up to this point based on the basic premise of trust and respect.

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Report gives colleges a roadmap for high-quality online education after the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Alejandra Acosta, a higher education policy analyst at New America and an author of the report, said: “We all knew that the internet was important before the pandemic but didn’t realize how important it was. Alejandra Acosta, higher education policy analyst, New America.

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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

It draws on listening sessions with more than a thousand educators, students, parents, state and district leaders and advocacy organizations, according to Erin Mote, CEO of education policy nonprofit InnovateEDU, one of several education organizations that collaborated with the government on the plan.

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Revised Federal Edtech Plan Calls for Closing Digital Divides

ED Surge

When the federal government released its revised edtech plan last month, it was laying down its hope for a future that delivers on effective instruction for students. The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016. Another challenge: whether teachers are supported.

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College Enrollment is Down. Can These New State Policies Help?

ED Surge

Longer term, state leaders are trying to improve internet infrastructure across the state, said Sarah Armstrong Tucker, chancellor for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. How do we make sure that our students have access in this changing world?” she asked. “If

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Why Maine’s new high school graduation rules could hurt more than help

The Hechinger Report

Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald. .”

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The rural school district Obama fought to save

The Hechinger Report

The challenges in rural communities are very real—funding, teacher recruitment and retention, access to technology, poverty, ever-changing expectations, and professional development and support,” U.S. Secretary of Education John B. Dillon was lucky to have the president personally invested in improving its schools.