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Tech-Trends: Acess to Digital Tools

February 08, 2012 1 min read
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Educational technology leaders must make important implementation and policy decisions based on the best available data about technology use in schools. To help you make those decisions, this special Digital Directions data page provides statistics about teacher and student access to certain types of digital tools.

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A version of this article appeared in the February 08, 2012 edition of Digital Directions as Tech-Trends Update

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