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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. A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

It feels really good and really important that our children… have access to in-person, five-day-a-week education. We have horrible broadband, horrible cell service. It returned to full-time, in-person school for all students — with mandatory masking — for the 2021-22 school year. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource – a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools – called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). ” “​ OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students.