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AUGUST 24, 2022

The steepest declines are at public two-year and four-year institutions, the more-affordable options that serve larger percentages of poor, working-class and minority students. In those years, the public supported higher ed equally for both its private and public benefits—on the whole, we were a nation that honored higher education.

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MAY 4, 2023

After all, if a science student hasn’t spent time actually producing reactions in a lab, Austin says, “they’re probably not going to be taken seriously out in the public,” limiting their success in graduate school or in the job market. In fact, some medical schools even refuse to consider admitting students with online coursework or degrees.

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MARCH 11, 2024

But they still like print, and they still like to go to the library, according to a survey of Gen Z and Millennial public library use and media consumption released by the American Library Association last fall. They also did ethnographic research at two Ohio public library branches. Ninety-two percent check social media daily.

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K-12 Education News

MARCH 15, 2021

Increased internet-access spending by Texas public schools improved academic performance but also led to more disciplinary problems among students, a study of 9,000 schools shows.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Although digital technologies hold great promise in the realm of education, access remains limited for many communities worldwide. One such company, Information Equity Initiative (IEI), is working to bridge the digital divide so that all students have access to educational information. households didn't have broadband access.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. The quantities were notable, researchers explained, because of well-documented parental concerns over other people having access to their children’s information.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. A 2020 report for the U.S. But the objection is more sweeping.

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ED Surge

APRIL 9, 2024

The goal is not just to create a virtual field trip to a farm that students in a classroom might not have access to. This is kind of an empathy machine, and I think it has a huge emotional power,” says Georgieva, who has become a leading voice about where VR is headed through her blogging and public speaking.

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Magic EdTech

MARCH 28, 2023

Did you know that nearly 87 million Europeans face a constant struggle to access basic necessities like using their mobile phones or traveling on public transport? These simple tasks may seem like a no-brainer, but without proper accessibility features, they can be a daily hurdle for many.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

When it comes to getting access to the latest scholarly articles, there’s a stark digital divide. Students and professors affiliated with most colleges have unlimited access to large collections of scholarship such as JSTOR and HeinOnline, because their institutions subscribe to site licenses.

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Magic EdTech

MARCH 28, 2023

Did you know that nearly 87 million Europeans face a constant struggle to access basic necessities like using their mobile phones or traveling on public transport? These simple tasks may seem like a no-brainer, but without proper accessibility features, they can be a daily hurdle for many.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Below, we’ll explore how your institution can harness the potential of cloud tools to improve learning outcomes, accessibility, and data security. This means no more storing files on your device or a USB stick; you can access them from any device as long as you have the right credentials and an internet connection.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Gutenberg Project This site provides thousands of digitized books, audio recordings, DVDs/CDs from the public domain (or out-of-copyright). Open Library Open Library is a curated list of over 20 million books (and growing) that are available worldwide to all age groups whether from the public domain or under copyright protections.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2023

For teachers, this means providing equal access to educational experiences and ensuring that all students have the support and resources they need to succeed academically, socially and emotionally. For Mulcahy, UDL means “making sure that all of the students have an accessible way to learn.”

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Educators Technology

JULY 21, 2022

The apps are designed to help these individuals navigate their surroundings in a more accessible and comfortable way. These accessible mobility apps provide voice-guided navigation data including turn-by-turn navigation to facilitate exploring one's surrounding environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This used to mean limiting access to the internet, blocking websites, and layering rules upon rules hoping (vainly) students would be discouraged from using an infinite and fascinating resource. It didn’t work.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

AI training from internet content Before generative AI’s were launched for public use, they had to be ‘trained’ by algorithms telling them how to access every bit of available internet content, copyrighted or not. I can’t wait to see how this-all comes out. I’ll cover more in future months.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Summarize and Access Web Content First, inside Edge, you'll want to toggle on the feature that lets you access web content inside the browser. I'm using Bing Chat (and Bing Chat Enterprise for private items) to access and work with all of my PDF's and web pages now. If not, search for voice access in your apps list.

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Magic EdTech

JANUARY 31, 2023

PDF accessibility means ensuring that PDF documents can be effectively used by individuals with disabilities, including those who are blind or have visual disabilities. The process of making PDFs accessible involves a combination of manual remediation and automated tools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Good intentions to give all students access to the world’s knowledge were derailed by the cost of the websites and webtools that made that happen. This site provides thousands of digitized books, audio recordings, DVDs/CDs from the public domain (or out-of-copyright). Access this catalog via the website. Gutenberg Project.

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Smore Science

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Leana Wen has dedicated her career to getting people the help they need – whether treating patients as an emergency room physician, teaching as a professor, or communicating with the public through newspapers and television. For the first time, she knew what she needed to access and how to access it. Everything changed.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 8, 2024

They provide a choice for parents and students dissatisfied with their assigned public schools. You must be ready to adapt your teaching strategies, align the use of technology with learning objectives, and ensure equality in access. It’s a tool, and it’s only as effective as its use.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 25, 2020

All schools receiving public funding must make content accessible to everyone including those with disabilities. If your school or district is interested in helping staff understand why this is important, then consider Accessibility for Everyone for your next great book study.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

The places where the adults tasked with that responsibility (known as McKinney-Vento workers because of the law that funds their jobs) connected with these students, like public libraries, closed down. These students are also at an increased risk for chronic absenteeism, missing 10 percent — or more — of the school year.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Established by presidential proclamation more than 25 years ago, this annual public awareness program encourages citizens young and old to think and learn about the significance of place and how we affect and are affected by it.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If you are based in Canada, the chances are high that you are well-versed with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). A legal regulation passed in the year 2005 in Ontario, Canada, AODA is responsible for enforcing accessibility standards for the Government, business organizations, and public sector companies.

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Magic EdTech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If you are based in Canada, the chances are high that you are well-versed with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). A legal regulation passed in the year 2005 in Ontario, Canada, AODA is responsible for enforcing accessibility standards for the Government, business organizations, and public sector companies.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2023

Results from the experiments, made public this week, show significant increases in the likelihood that a student who receives an offer of direct admission will signal intent to enroll. Most community colleges are open access institutions, meaning almost anyone who applies is admitted.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Access to high-quality education is widely recognized as a pivotal tool for alleviating poverty, mitigating the spread of disease and malnutrition, fostering children's overall welfare and empowering women. billion people worldwide without internet access. billion people worldwide without internet access.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Accessibility solutions that benefit all learners are built into the applications in Microsoft 365 for Education, including Teams, OneNote, PowerPoint, Minecraft and others. For example, Las Cruces Public Schools in New Mexico faced a significant challenge in its efforts to avoid disruptions to instruction at the beginning of the pandemic.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

Many rural students have also struggled to access high-quality STEM education because of a lack of resources. The researchers are looking at public high schools with higher-than- average proportions of students from low-income backgrounds and students of color. This barrier is top of mind for Schneider.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

trillion infrastructure bill into law, our nation is poised to make historic investments in its highways, public transit, railways, airports, ports, water systems, broadband networks and electric grid. With President Biden’s signature turning the $1.2 A key reason? There is no need to reinvent the wheel.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Indeed, premium private schools have a lot more scope to harness the potential of AI than the vast majority of public or state schools, many of which are underfunded and struggling to ensure that their students have equitable access to the subjects they want to study and their desired career paths.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 10, 2023

Are you curious about the Cue Robot Workshop ( 1 ) and whether ‘is Cue robot workshop open to public’? KEY TAKEAWAY Is Cue robot workshop open to public? Cue Robot is now available to the general public, but it is primarily designed for use in schools and institutions. And it’s available to the general public!

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

In a survey conducted in 2022 by the Institute of Education Sciences, leaders from more than two-thirds of public schools reported an increase in the number of students seeking mental health services since the pandemic, and nearly half of them said they could not effectively provide mental health services to all students in need.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study.

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