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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

The Hechinger Report

Despite mounting evidence that schools are not turning out to be major incubators or vectors of Covid-19 transmission, New York City shut down its public school system in November. Many other major school systems remain closed as well. Science in particular is extremely hands-on and almost impossible to grasp virtually.

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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.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. The district’s Covid dashboard shows there have been more than 400 cases among students and staff, and 50 people were quarantined in mid-November. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education last week outlined changes to civil rights investigations that advocates fear will mean less consistent findings of systemic discrimination at colleges.” ” More on lawsuits against the Department of Education relating to Title IX in the courts section below.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” million in Series A funding from University Ventures and New Markets Venture Partners for its “automatic motivational support system.” The devices will be monitored through a tracking system developed for this purpose.”

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

It has shaped the administrative imaginary – and that in turn has shaped how schools have built capacity (or much more likely outsourced capacity ) and defined capacity altogether – notably in response to what’s been consistently framed as the challenge of access and the necessity of choice. broadband privacy rules.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Department of Education Announces Requirements for New Federal Loan Servicing System.” ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible. ” More via IHE.