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4 Websites that Explain Elections

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C-Span website, radio app, podcast C-Span provides Americans with access to live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the U.S. Also included are direct access to elected and appointed individuals, audience call-ins to officials, audience-created videos, lesson plans for educators, and more. House of Representatives and the U.S.

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What to Know About the Rise of Smartwatches Among Kids

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Today, many models include capabilities such as photo and video capture, video calling, access to a full keyboard for texting, voice messaging, group chats and geofencing. Parent fear may be the primary driver of this booming market. A spokesperson for Verizon described kids’ smartwatches as “truly a phone replacement on their wrist.”

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Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility

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If you have students in your school who do not have English as their primary language, this is a must-listen-to episode. (Or Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility 00;00;00;04 – 00;00;07;19 John Davis This is the Ten Minute Teacher Podcast with your host Vicki Davis. So you would choose your primary language on there.

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

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Forty-six percent of teachers surveyed named lack of family prioritization of academics as the primary reason some students have fallen behind. We know there's a gap in access, especially for families at home, she says.

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

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Dan Wuori : We talk about how we're in this crisis or that crisis — there's an access crisis, there's a compensation crisis, there's an affordability crisis [in early childhood education]. And if it’s accessible, what does an existing one look like in the U.S.? Can you describe what an inverted system would look like? No question.

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International Education During the Pandemic

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There was a significant problem in Argentina with access to instruction because of connectivity, which was also endemic to the community I served here in the states. Reliable access was such a problem in Argentina that students did not even bother to attend classes. As it was, Italy also had similar issues with distance learning.

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