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Most families have given up virtual school, but what about students who are still thriving online?

The Hechinger Report

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. The district assigned 10 full-time teachers to provide live, online classes via Zoom. Related: Remote learning has been a disaster for many students.

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Using ESSER Funds to Prepare for a Transformative School Year

Insight Education Group

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5 Districts and schools may be wondering how to best use these funds.

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Using the ESSER Funds to Prepare for a Transformative School Year

Insight Education Group

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5 Districts and schools may be wondering how to best use these funds.

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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on ed tech’ Hebbar’s Ed Tech Equity Project, in collaboration with Digital Promise, launched a product certification program in 2021 to recognize ed tech companies that share plans to incorporate racial equity in their designs.

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As a district re-opens, one middle schooler returned to school and another remained home

The Hechinger Report

After a year of purely remote learning, elementary and middle school students were offered one day a week of in-person instruction in March; that was followed by two days a week the first half of April. Middle schoolers don’t follow guidelines. Brockton, like many communities, opted for a gradual return to schools.

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OPINION: The truth about returning to school? There’s no easy answer

The Hechinger Report

Black parents have written about the ways that online learning can in fact be a less biased, less harmful experience for their children than in-person school and the pandemic has hit Black and Latinx communities the hardest , so they have seen the dangers of the coronavirus first hand. That’s the hardest truth of all.

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‘Protect my babies’: Parents desperate for safe school options as the virus surges

The Hechinger Report

Conflicts over masking, mandatory vaccinations and confusing quarantine policies have made the 2021 back-to-school season one of the most fraught in the Covid era. Montgomery, an elementary school in Mound Bayou, Mississippi: Respectful. 5, 2021, they seemed painfully ironic. Credit: Kelsey Davis Betz for The Hechinger Report.

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