As mobile devices become increasingly pervasive among youth, the gap between students with and without access to personal computers at home may soon be replaced by a new digital divide: between one set of informal ways of using those tools that are familiar, personally meaningful, and relevant to their out-of-school lives, and another set of uses…

In an era characterized by aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment through professional development to increase student achievement, educators have continued to see the achievement gap proliferate. With the move toward the common core and nationalized standards, how teachers educate and what they give students access to in the…