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Online Education Advocacy Group Launches as Dept. of Ed Proposes Loosening Regulations

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To advocate for and on behalf of effective online teaching and learning practices, four organizations are joining forces to establish the National Council for Online Education. Offering guidance about effective online learning in response to the pandemic has jumped to the top of the new council’s priority list.

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OPINION: With many schools choosing online learning, how can we keep the music alive?

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Research repeatedly indicates that schools and students with access to high quality music education perform better in a multitude of academic, social and emotional ways. Music teachers need your advocacy and your help. The post OPINION: With many schools choosing online learning, how can we keep the music alive?

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Groups urge IES to release months-late report on student internet access

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A federal report on students’ home access to digital learning resources is months late, and ed-tech groups say the delay is impeding efforts to close the homework gap. ” Next page: Why low-income students could be even more at risk for losing internet access. .” “This is critical.”

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Few preschool apps are developmentally appropriate, report finds

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Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. But few of these apps are developmentally appropriate and most fail to teach in ways preschoolers need to learn. Those are the findings of a report recently released by researchers at the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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They helped all schools get good internet, now they?re focusing on homes

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More than 99 percent of schools nationwide have access to speedy and reliable internet, making online learning an option for their students. School buildings are closed because of coronavirus, and the bandwidth that powered digital learning for kids is going unused. schools is effectively closed.

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Congress is cutting the funds that could have closed the homework gap

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billion in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan in April 2021 to enable school districts and libraries to provide internet access and connected devices to students and educators during the pandemic. Online access for families has also helped the district engage parents. “I The program received $7.17 As of Dec.

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Students Are Online Like Never Before. What Does That Mean for Their Privacy?

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Who has access to it? These questions have been circulating for years, as schools have increasingly embraced technology to aid in learning. But now, with entire school systems using technology as a means to access learning, those questions are growing in volume and urgency. Which technologies are collecting student data?