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

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Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. We need to change that.”.

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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

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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. The post OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

The Hechinger Report

Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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Coronavirus becomes unprecedented test for teacher-student relationships

The Hechinger Report

Nearly 12 million students in 2017 didn’t have broadband internet in their homes , according to a federal report. Some have banded together to call for providing internet hotspots and Chromebooks to millions of students who cannot get online or access lessons. On Monday, Rose learned the student’s father had died.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country as they manage school districts, lead classrooms, parent students and attend school. It feels really good and really important that our children… have access to in-person, five-day-a-week education. We have horrible broadband, horrible cell service.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. By doing so, Middletown’s leaders believe its disadvantaged students will gain access to information and opportunities that many middle- and upper-class students may take for granted.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. By doing so, Middletown’s leaders believe its disadvantaged students will gain access to information and opportunities that many middle- and upper-class students may take for granted.