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

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You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

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But not every student can make the leap to full-time status, said Karen Stout, president of the nonprofit advocacy group Achieving the Dream; many have neither the money nor the time. More than 1,000 students have taken the state up on the offer since it began three years ago.

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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

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Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No On a trip back home to the Dominican Republic, she began dating Jesus Hernandez; they married in 2013. This story also appeared in USA Today. Anjerlin was born the next year.

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From foster care to college

The Hechinger Report

The percentage of Seita students to graduate from Western Michigan has ranged from 24 to 44 percent for cohorts that started between 2008 and 2013, according to university administrators. Youth who remain in the child welfare system until age 21 have more time to access federal financial aid and assistance from social workers.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

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Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” That’s Rohit Agarwal, founder of TenMarks, a math startup that Amazon acquired in 2013. .” More on AB 165 from the ACLU , which also opposes the proposed law. That’s UC Berkeley.