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Online Tutor–Is it Right For You?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Some of the other reasons why I love online tutoring are: Offers work-life balance: You might have heard that online education provides great flexibility to students as they can access information anytime and anywhere. Today, students can access high-quality education from wherever they are. Think about that!

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

The Hechinger Report

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos’ parents promised to buy her a laptop eventually, but bills mounted and it wasn’t in the family’s budget.

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Supporting Educational Recovery with Community and Family Engagement

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In Fayette County Public Schools, there are family engagement coordinators in every school, and those coordinators played a similar role in providing laptops, hot spots, books, and food during the pandemic. In addition, the students receive similar books to read on their own. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. Join the Community.

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OPINION: Here’s why chronically underfunded HBCUs are needed now more than ever

The Hechinger Report

They typically come from K-12 school systems that lack resources like state-of-the-art learning technology, curriculum and student supports. Like many colleges, we’ve created a laptop loaner program to meet the needs of both on- and off-campus students by providing year-long access to reliable, new devices. Across the U.S.,

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

With schools mostly online, nearly one in four public school students in Detroit aren’t logging in or showing up , the superintendent says — many because they don’t have laptops or Wi-Fi. Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again.

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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

The Hechinger Report

Poor internet, a lack of laptops and hotspots, and instability at home are the factors most commonly cited for making participation in online learning difficult for kids. Other districts around the country have reported similarly high numbers of missing students. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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The pandemic knocked many Native students off the college track

The Hechinger Report

Even before the pandemic, American Indian and Alaska Native students had the highest high school dropout rate and lowest college enrollment rate of any U.S. She spent last April trying to secure technology for students taking Advanced Placement exams. “We were just trying to get through.”. National figures tell a similar tale.

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