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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The publication The Atlantic interviewed Betsy DiSalvo on how parents’ outsize roles in their children’s learning patterns are apparent in even younger kids, too. Betsy DiSalvo, a professor and researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, studied families with elementary- and middle-school children. She found that parents in lower-income families were less likely to use the internet to find learning resources for their kids, or to find information about how to help them with school.
Read the rest of the article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/inequaity-in-the-virtual-classroom/501311/
