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

The Hechinger Report

While most schools across the country are fully back in person, students continue to struggle to complete homework assignments or participate in remote learning because they lack adequate internet service and access to a computer at home — a phenomenon commonly referred to as the “homework gap.” 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. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. The rest of the country is starting to pay attention as well.

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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. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

And Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng left Baidu , where he’d been since leaving the MOOC startup in 2014. “Faculty,” as this year’s ECAR study put it , “have a love-hate relationship with online teaching and learning. Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school.

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