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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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The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The graduation rate remained steady, and even rose to 67 percent in 2021.

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Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss’

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While the number of districts currently operating pods or hubs is unknown, the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a nonprofit, created a database to track more than 300 pods in early 2021, finding that about 7 percent of the programs in this sample were run by districts. Navarro began working with Jason in May 2021.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” Google had a big media to-do this week. Via Ars Technica : “Google unveils a $249 smart camera that decides what’s worth photographing.” “ Mattel and Google : a double standard for AI toys?”

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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. If we go to somewhere and my mom says ‘How much?’

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Google Drive will soon back up your entire computer,” says The Verge. ” Via Campus Technology : “ IoT to Represent More Than Half of Connected Device Landscape by 2021.” ” “The Case for Learning Platform Grade Book ” by Mindwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. Don’t.