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OPINION: Here’s why chronically underfunded HBCUs are needed now more than ever

The Hechinger Report

We were devising ways to get our students money to fix their cars or cover medical bills long before such emergency aid garnered significant attention as a student success tool, and we’ve continued to prioritize it during the pandemic. Second, we’ve taken ownership of the digital divide at the institutional level.

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

The Hechinger Report

Johnson also didn’t want her children to go through the next two months with no educational tools beyond the worksheets she’d picked up from the Greenville Public School District and limited access to online materials through Kentiona’s phone, shared between the four of them. The digital divide. It has been slow.”.

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Students have their own demands for school reopening

The Hechinger Report

The organizations collaborated to articulate 10 principles for reopening that include listening to students, closing the digital divide, addressing basic needs, moving away from one-size-fits-all instruction and evaluation and creating an inclusive curriculum. Credit: Sophie Bograd.

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

Related: Can high-poverty urban districts like Philadelphia close the digital divide? The new Vaux welcomed its first class of 126 ninth-graders in September; it plans to serve 504 students by 2020. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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