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

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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. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

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Last school year she taught to a Chromebook, filled with dark squares where kids’ faces ought to have been. “I The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. Some kids went months and months without Chromebooks; others never logged on at all. “We

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How the coronavirus has upended college admissions

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Goulart’s district is providing Chromebooks to all students and wifi hotspots to those who don’t have access to the internet at home. Some universities have already waived the testing requirements for the class of 2021. Oregon State University was one of the first schools to extend its admissions-deposit deadline from May 1 to June 1.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Microsoft is really scared of Chromebooks in businesses and schools,” according to The Verge. ” Via Campus Technology : “ IoT to Represent More Than Half of Connected Device Landscape by 2021.” ” Teach for America but for Afghanistan. .”

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‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

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And while districts in Maryland did receive additional money for vulnerable students as a “down payment” after the state passed the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future Act , Rhodes says that funding will expire in June 2021 if lawmakers don’t act.