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Verizon launches free trainings and tools to help educators navigate digital instruction

eSchool News

Educators across the nation can now access Teacher Training Pathways , a free platform offering courses aligned to micro-credentials on remote and hybrid learning, instructional technology coaching and more. Applications are now being accepted by Digital Promise from districts with Title I schools across the nation.

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OPINION: Creating better post-pandemic education for English learners

The Hechinger Report

Schools’ struggles to engage English learners’ families during the pandemic partly stem from another pre-pandemic inequity — gaps in access to digital learning devices and the internet. For English learners, the pandemic is both a crisis and a revelation. By and large, English learners aren’t thriving under distance learning.

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Meeting the Educational Challenges of COVID-19 Together

MIND Research Institute

Digital Divides and the COVID Slide. Over the past several years, progress has been made with regard to the “digital divide,” the gap between students who have access to technology and those who do not. And access by itself is not enough. ST Math students will be able to access the program from home.

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98 Percent of U.S. Public School Districts Connected to High-Speed Broadband, But 2.3 Million Students Still Left Behind

Education Superhighway

At the same time, the report cites the urgent need to close the digital divide for 2.3 million students across the nation who lack access to the minimum connectivity required for digital learning. million teachers in more than 81,000 schools have the Internet access they need for digital learning.

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The changing geography of work: a new report

Bryan Alexander

Reflecting more limited access to education, Hispanic workers are most at risk of displacement, followed by African Americans. My readers will be unsurprised to see STEM and business continuing to boom, which suggests even more students will enter those programs. — Tom Var (@Tom_Var) July 18, 2019.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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The changing geography of work: a new report

Bryan Alexander

Reflecting more limited access to education, Hispanic workers are most at risk of displacement, followed by African Americans. My readers will be unsurprised to see STEM and business continuing to boom, which suggests even more students will enter those programs. — Tom Var (@Tom_Var) July 18, 2019.

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