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

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According to a 2021 report from the think tank New America, 1 in 8 children from low-income families don’t have a computer at home, while 1 in 7 lack access to broadband internet. When he taught at Castlemont in 2014, the school had only one Chromebook cart. “To The homework gap isn’t new. Technology was the lifeline to information.”.

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Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” More on the bill via Inside Higher Ed.

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