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Education Achievement Gap

Bill Gates to SXSWedu: We Aren't Doing Enough to Spur the Advance of Education Technology

Jason A. Llorenz | Posted 05.12.2013 | Technology
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Jason A. Llorenz

Edtech -- shorthand for broadband-powered education technology -- holds the potential to transform learning from a classroom-bound process, whereby groups of students are taught by a single teacher at any given time, to a rich, personalized experience for each student.

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Providence Public School District Reinvents Summer School

Posted 08.22.2012 | Home
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In an effort to reduce the academic gap between wealthy and poor students, a Providence, R.H., program is reinventing summer school, PBS NewsHour educ...

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How the Education System Fails Underprivileged Students

Brandy Williams | Posted 10.29.2011 | Black Voices
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Brandy Williams

Well-meaning educators are often the source for underprivileged student failures. In giving underprivileged students excuses and passes, educators teach them that the world owes them something.

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Why Boys Are Failing In An Educational System Stacked Against Them

Lori Day | Posted 08.27.2011 | Home
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Lori Day

Educational experts proclaim that we have a crisis in the education of boys in this country. The media attention to this topic has been extensive, yet I do not see the systemic changes that are needed.

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Report: Wide White-Hispanic Education Achievement Gap Persists

Posted 08.16.2012 | Home
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By Molly O'Toole WASHINGTON -- The Hispanic-white educational achievement gap has remained wide over the past two decades, according to a new repo...

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