June 22, 2018
Lamar Consolidated Independent School District (CISD) educates 30,800 students in the Houston, Texas, area, where 40 percent qualify for free and reduced-cost lunch. In 2013, Lamar CISD was struggling...
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Access to the Internet can transform students’ lives by putting invaluable information and resources at their fingertips. For low-income students, that access has the power to ultimately change their ...
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Beaufort County middle schools in South Carolina issued all of their students a laptop. However, in some areas of the county, students had difficulty using the laptops for homework because they didn’t...
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In 2014 Springfield Public Schools, Missouri’s largest school district, welcomed a new superintendent with a passion for innovative education, Dr. John Jungmann. Springfield Public Schools serve 25,00...
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When Melissa Motes, Director of Instructional Technology for DeKalb Independent School District (DeKalb ISD), was planning to implement a 1-to-1 technology program for the students in her school distr...
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Technology was in a sorry state at Affton School District in 2012: The infrastructure was fragile, there was struggling wireless connectivity in the school, students were using antiquated computers, a...
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When one of the nation’s largest urban school districts is serving one of the most disconnected communities, what’s compromised is education. The Detroit Public Schools district, overseeing nearly 100...
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In a school district where budgets are extremely tight — like Pontiac, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit — spending more than is absolutely necessary to ensure Internet connectivity for their students jus...
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If there’s a front line in the ed tech revolution shaping school districts across the country, it’s filled with great teachers. While any successful tech initiative or program—from a new learning mana...
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