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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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COLUMN: Standardized tests aren’t the problem, it’s how we use them

The Hechinger Report

States concerned about the safety of administering a test during a pandemic may implement shortened versions of assessments. However, there is still a role for testing and assessment. In other words, states should be using multiple assessments to address the range of needs of students and their teachers.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

to purchase what would have cost $100 in 2001 , he said. per $100,000 of assessed real or personal property values. The compromise does provide for electrifying school buses, lead pipe removal and expanded broadband access. In October 2020, it took $209.82 36,000 — The number of schools nationwide estimated by the U.S.

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