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Equity and Access in Math Education

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Families with social and economic capital tend to provide their children with more educational tools and opportunities, including enrichment activities, access to technology and familiarity with the learning process. However, working towards equity and access is of paramount importance.

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Social solutions for socio-economic issues

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Social solutions for socio-economic issues Published: Extreme poverty is a global issue that affects hundreds of millions of people. He hopes that this programme will help to encourage economic growth in the poverty-stricken communities of rural New England, so that the people who live there can attain a better quality of life.

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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. While about 95 percent of students in Silver State have access to computer science, the report states that only 3.5 I like the challenge.”

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Harvard and MIT Launch Nonprofit to Increase College Access

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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.” To understand the new nonprofit, it’s important to review its complicated origin story. And in retrospect, the timing of the sale was fortuitous.

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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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The Political Right Is Slamming the Door on College Access

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“With the exception of wartime, the United States has never been through a period of declining educational attainment like this ,” says Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University. Even if the right isn’t entirely responsible, it continues to help slam the gates on wider college access.

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Unlocking the Power of Creativity and AI: Preparing Students for the Future Workforce

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Stacie Johnson Leader of Professional Development at Khan Academy Johnsrud: The World Economic Forum this past year reported that creative thinking is the number-one skill needed across industries globally in the next five years. Stacie Johnson AI can bring access in a way that we've never had before. How would you respond to that?