Equity and Quality in Digital Learning: Realizing the Promise in K-12 Education

Equity and Quality in Digital Learning offers strategies and practices for using digital tools to reduce inequities in educational opportunities and improve student outcomes, highlighting the factors that can support or impede effective implementation. It is critical to ensure that digital tools are effectively leveraged to enhance learning and reduce achievement gaps, especially for historically underserved students.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2020
Publisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group

Equity and Quality in Digital Learning is a comprehensive guide that identifies and presents specific strategies and practices for leveraging digital tools to reduce inequities in educational opportunities and improve student outcomes. Drawing from a ten-year research-practice partnership with the Dallas and Milwaukee public school districts, the book highlights the factors that can support or impede the effective implementation of digital learning in K–12 schools at all levels, including district, school, classroom, and student. The authors argue that digital initiatives can boost higher levels of learning, but they require careful planning, monitoring, assessment, and refinement.

As public schools in the United States continue to invest significant resources in digital learning, the variability in how it is rolled out, accessed, and supported threatens to exacerbate rather than reduce inequities in learning opportunities. It is critical to ensure that the chosen digital tools are effectively leveraged to enhance learning and reduce achievement gaps, particularly for students historically underserved in K–12 schools. The authors offer concrete ways to use evidence from the book to increase the effectiveness of digital learning.

Equity and Quality in Digital Learning provides valuable insights and tools that educators and policy makers need to fulfill the promise of digital learning in American schools. By addressing the factors that can hinder or facilitate effective implementation, the book empowers educators to create inclusive and equitable learning environments that leverage the power of technology to enhance student learning and achievement.

Weight: 288g
Dimension: 151 x 227 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781682535103