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3 steps we’re taking to ensure true digital equity

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About 73 percent of our nearly 9,000 students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, and 36 percent are bilingual or speak English as a second language. But we realize that’s only a starting point, and we need to do more than just give every child a mobile device. 1) High-speed internet access at home as well as school.

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How to make remote learning easily accessible

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K-12 school systems have taken many actions to ensure that students have the technology they need to learn from home, such as distributing mobile devices and wireless hotspots to students who need them and even negotiating deals with internet service providers to extend free or discounted broadband service to low-income families.

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How we increased our graduation rate and student achievement

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the deployment of mobile devices. In deploying the devices, the district targeted grade levels and courses such as 7th-grade civics, 9th- and 10th-grade English, and middle school math. Additionally, mobile devices were provided to additional subject areas, including laptops to all elementary schools.

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Building Education Technology for the Developing World

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Never mind the shortage of internet bandwidth and devices; some schools lack even basic school supplies and reliable electricity. At Khan Academy, employees have been focusing their efforts on mobile devices in order to achieve one-to-one for students. In India, the rate is 40 percent.

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Summer Reading Online

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Books can be read online or on most mobile devices. You can read them online, on a mobile device, or download them. Choices include fiction, poetry, and songs in English and Spanish (a limited availability). Books can be read online or on mobile devices. Books can be read online or on mobile devices.

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Closing the 30 million word gap

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More than half of the student population is Latino, and many of these students come from poor households where English isn’t spoken. This gap is even wider when students grow up in non-English speaking households. The product features interactive books that can “read themselves” to children in English or Spanish, Nemko said.

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What U.S. Companies Should Know About Asia's Edtech Market

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If your product or services can easily pivot to English-teaching or improving students’ readiness for standardized tests, then Asia may provide a big potential market Back home, I’m a Chicago teacher, but I spend my summers consulting with edtech companies in Asia. ThinkCERCA is definitely not the first U.S.