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Teachers Say Parental Engagement Can Make or Break Efforts to Close Learning Gaps

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The recent unveiling of national reading and math scores revealed some disheartening trends about learning recovery with the collective main headline: Students Are Doing Worse Than Before the Pandemic Started. We know there's a gap in access, especially for families at home, she says. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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Computer Science is Growing in K-12 Schools, But Access Doesn’t Equal Participation

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Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Looking to a Tech-Driven Future The report makes a case for computer science as part of the solution for pandemic-related learning loss, touting its high level of engagement.

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How a New Approach to Early Childhood Could Avert a ‘Public Policy Catastrophe’

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Wuori’s arguments throughout the concise, 101-page book are premised on what he calls “The Three Simple Truths of Early Development”: Learning begins in utero and never stops. There are these important kinds of early forms of language learning. “Significant, transformative public investment,” he writes. It's a great question.

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Equity and Access in Math Education

ED Surge

The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated this phenomenon, impacting teaching and learning for all students, especially students from underserved communities. Overnight, the modality of remote learning became necessary, and these underserved communities encountered the most difficulties.

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Harvard and MIT Launch Nonprofit to Increase College Access

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What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? As the group’s new CEO, Stephanie Khurana, put it in an interview with EdSurge this week: “The focus of the mission is to really help postsecondary completion and issues of economic mobility.”

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As Schools Prioritize Digital Literacy, My Students Are Being Left Behind

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During the pandemic, our district embodied this tech-forward identity by providing Chromebooks and hotspots for all students to go fully remote for an entire academic year of virtual learning. Through this and the guidance of my parents at home, I learned a skill that now seems innate to me.

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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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Unfortunately, a sizeable portion of this academic scholarship is locked behind paywalls thus restricting its access to those who can afford to pay. Several researchers and students are unable to afford the high costs required for access thus crippling their efforts to participate in the generation of quality knowledge.

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