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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

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Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: “People think it’s about boxes and wires and that’s just the beginning,” said Beth Holland, digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry association for tech directors across the country. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students

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Then, as teachers had time to develop lesson plans and adjust to new curricula, student performance began to improve. Higher Education. Back in 2013, when New York was one of the first states in the nation to adopt Common Core standards and administer tougher tests, children’s test scores initially plummeted. Proof Points.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds. Choose as many as you like.

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As More AI Tools Emerge in Education, so Does Concern Among Teachers About Being Replaced

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But these days, when it comes to AI, another concern has come into the spotlight: That the technology could lead to less human interaction in schools and colleges — and that school administrators could one day try to use it to replace teachers. And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies By November, when a slate of Republican school board candidates who’d campaigned against DEI was elected , the changes started to come hard and fast. The new DEI committee was disbanded in early 2022, as students continued to report racial hostility.