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How to reach students without internet access at home? Schools get creative

The Hechinger Report

But while many districts around the country have moved to remote learning platforms like Google Classroom, Coe was using the school’s copy machine to put together printed packets for his students to take home. In this rural Tennessee county of just 12,000 residents, online learning simply isn’t an option for most families.

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OPINION: With many schools choosing online learning, how can we keep the music alive?

The Hechinger Report

Research repeatedly indicates that schools and students with access to high quality music education perform better in a multitude of academic, social and emotional ways. Music teachers need your advocacy and your help. The post OPINION: With many schools choosing online learning, how can we keep the music alive?

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Excellent Free STEM Strategies from TGR Foundation and Discovery

The CoolCatTeacher

The new ( Re)Defining STEM learning module from TGR Foundation and Discovery Education is the first of several courses to support educators to integrate STEM in new and powerful ways. Every STEM educator should take a look at these resources and integrate them into their blended or online learning environment.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 10 dedicated educators

eSchool News

Hatcher’s commitment to providing equitable opportunities for all students, including those with diverse needs, led him to offer services that cater to both traditional and online learning environments, recognizing that some students require different support structures for academic success. Her advocacy resulted in $1.5

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COLUMN: Conservatives are embracing new alternative school models. Will the public?

The Hechinger Report

The Network for Public Education, an advocacy group, last month published an interactive feature chronicling “voucher scams.” Yet demand for the vouchers is such that Florida parents and schools are having trouble accessing them. Enlow, president and CEO of the advocacy group EdChoice. “To

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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. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.