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Disadvantaged Students and Online Learning: Addressing Challenges
Since the first dial-up modem blinked to life, the internet has helped shatter information hierarchies the world over.Schools are no exception....
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Community Engagement Strategies: Closing the Achievement Gap in Poor Schools
Think your school or district is up against it?Take 30 seconds to read this recent Education Week article about Calcedeaver Elementary in Mount...
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School Market Share Decline: Identifying Causes and Solutions
The Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Maryland has long been regarded by education experts as a national bellwether district.Pundits a...
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Chasing the Broadband Dream: The Ongoing Struggle
In 2014, the Federal Communications Commission expanded the federal E-rate program to help schools provide students with access to high-speed inter...
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Making Silos Work: A Practical Approach
Organizations large and small struggle to keep their various departments connected.Schools are no exception.It’s easy to get tunnel vision ...
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Charismatic Leadership: 3 Ways to Stand Out as a School Leader
For education leaders, the challenge of rallying different groups, from board members to staff to faculty to students to parents toward a single pu...
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Connecting Teachers with Communities: Best Practices
In most rural and suburban schools, students are taught by teachers who have similar experiences to themselves.Many of these teachers went to t...
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ESSA Standards: States Set Social-Emotional Learning Criteria
Social-emotional learning: It’s a concept lauded for its ability to help students develop important life skills that go beyond academics.At the...
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Personalized Teaching Support: Meeting Educators' Needs in Real-Time
We talk a lot about personalized learning in schools.The idea, of course, is to meet students where they are in their educations, by applying b...