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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. 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.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.” ” Via the Council on Foreign Relations : “The Link Between Internet Access and Economic Growth Is Not as Strong as You Think.”

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

It has shaped the administrative imaginary – and that in turn has shaped how schools have built capacity (or much more likely outsourced capacity ) and defined capacity altogether – notably in response to what’s been consistently framed as the challenge of access and the necessity of choice. broadband privacy rules.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” ” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” ” Via CJR : “‘This is unprecedented’: Public colleges limiting journalist access.”

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