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‘Homework gap’ shows millions of students lack home internet

Posted on Monday, June 10th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Associated Press, NBC News
Date: 6/10/2019
Link: Complete Article

‘Homework gap’ shows millions of students lack home internet

HARTFORD, Conn. — With no computer or internet at home, Raegan Byrd’s homework assignments present a nightly challenge: How much can she get done using just her smartphone? On the tiny screen, she switches between web pages for research projects, losing track of tabs whenever friends send messages. She uses her thumbs to tap out… [Read More]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: homework gap, internet, internet access, rural education, urban education

Officials sound off to legislators on broadband, schools

Posted on Wednesday, March 29th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Richie Davis, The Recorder
Date: 3/28/2017
Link: Complete Article

Officials sound off to legislators on broadband, schools

CONWAY, MA — A 14-member state Senate delegation got a blast about rural issues from nearly a dozen officials from the four western counties Tuesday. The legislators were taking a listening tour and began their day in the Conway Town Hall. Speakers from regional planning agencies tried to explain some of the interrelated problems rural… [Read More]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Adam Hinds, broadband, Chapter 70, legislators, MA Rural Schools Coalition, rural education

Mohawk supt. seeks ‘rural school aid’

Posted on Wednesday, August 10th, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Diane Broncaccio, The Recorder
Date: 8/9/2016
Link: Complete Article

Mohawk supt. seeks ‘rural school aid’

BUCKLAND, MA — Saying that 50 school districts and about 100 rural towns “will soon face the equivalent of bankruptcy,” Mohawk Trail Regional School Superintendent Michael Buoniconti has drafted a proposal to establish rural school aid as part of the state’s Chapter 70 educational aid formula. Part of the plan is to support state legislation… [Read More]

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Chapter 70, Franklin County Schools, rural education, rural school aid, Western MA Schools

US Dept of Education announces webinar “Two Approaches to Improve Student Achievement in Rural High Schools”

Posted on Tuesday, June 14th, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Link: Complete Article

US Dept of Education announces webinar “Two Approaches to Improve Student Achievement in Rural High Schools”

The U.S. Department of Education’s Investing in Innovation (i3) Program is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar with two i3 grantees working to improve achievement in rural high schools-the Rural Math Excel Partnership (RMEP) and the Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) model of school improvement. With approximately 30 percent of our nation’s 50+ million students… [Read More]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: AESA, rural education, Rural High Schools, US Department of Education

State’s new rural policy commission meets in Greenfield

Posted on Monday, June 13th, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Richie Davis, The Recorder
Date: 06/10/2016
Link: Complete Article

State’s new rural policy commission meets in Greenfield

GREENFIELD, MA — A newly formed state Rural Policy Commission set to work Friday at an organizational meeting that sets to make its top priority the 167 rural communities of the nation’s third most densely populated state. Fifteen members of the new 17-member panel turned out for a two-hour session that set up four work… [Read More]

Filed Under: State/National News Tagged With: rural education, Rural Policy Commission, William Diehl

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