Accessibility Broadband Dropout Learning 
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2022
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. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Such students have fewer informal science opportunities and limited broadband Wi-Fi access at home and attend schools in districts that receive, by one estimate, $1,200 less in funding per student. Together we learned basic concepts like capillary action (blood flow) and how to dissect (using chicken legs). In the U.S.,
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 27, 2020
Her high school had recently closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic and shifted to distance learning. Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. This story also appeared in HuffPost.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
Conventional wisdom around when and where students learn, what knowledge they need to be successful, and who they are as learners is all rapidly changing, especially as technology becomes more prevalent in classrooms. Learning can happen anytime, anywhere. Geographic and socio-economic factors no longer have to be barriers to learning.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 20, 2020
Of course, teachers want their students to master content, develop a love of learning and move on to the next grade. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning. If you don’t have a relationship with them, they won’t learn,” said Glick, who has taught many of her students for both seventh and eighth grade. “In
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. Using what it learned from the strings program, the district decided to offer courses for free — with the help of its Race to the Top grant. Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
We as teachers, as a school entity, we are trying to jump back into it and get them back into the practice of having deadlines and learning and having standards and expectations. It feels really good and really important that our children… have access to in-person, five-day-a-week education. I just listened. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
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