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VHS Learning Elects Dr. Yolanda D. Johnson to its Board of Directors

eSchool News

6, 2021 – VHS Learning, an accredited non-profit organization empowering schools with the industry’s best online learning programs, has appointed Dr. Yolanda D. Boston – Dec. Johnson to its board of directors.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. Inconsistent cell phone access isn’t uncommon among low-income Americans.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

“You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

Instructor Brandon Smith discusses using online tools with students in an intermediate college algebra class at Wallace State Community College’s Hanceville campus on the first day of classes for the fall semester on Aug. The decrease tracked with the department’s historical experience with online learning.

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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

The Hechinger Report

Last spring, tens of millions of students were forced online as their institutions made the emergency transition to remote instruction. Many remain at least partially online this fall and possibly into 2021. The pandemic has clearly upended the college experience for a generation of students and higher education professionals.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. He said the fall 2021 semester of first-year calculus was the most difficult he’s had in his 50-year career.

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