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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We As an example, the report highlights the experience of Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Indiana, which has embraced universal design for learning in a variety of ways. The post How can we close the digital divide?

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

The Hechinger Report

We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We

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A Tale of Two American Education Systems: An Edtech Investor’s Perspective

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It’s a longstanding national crisis, often referred to as the “digital divide,” which at Kapor Capital we identify as one of the cumulative barriers across The Leaky Tech Pipeline. And it means funding companies and founders who are committed to closing the digital divide. times the rate of Black and Latinx students.

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

But instead of a deadly hurricane, this year brought another crisis that shut the city’s school system: the coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps no school system had a distance learning plan in place that anticipated a shutdown on the scale of the coronavirus closures. This story also appeared in The Huffington Post.

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Rally to Restore Philadelphia School Librarians: Responses, reflections, and resources

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Approximately 50 schools have libraries with catalog systems, and all schools have a subscription to PA Power Library, which makes libraries virtually accessible to all schools. And I wonder what types of collections these 50 catalog systems describe and who selected the materials to which they point. This is an equity issue.

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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

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Living digital equity involves thinking of each child and their individual and communal needs and actively seeking to provide access, resources, opportunity, standards, and support to all children, “especially groups that are and have been historically marginalized.” Palmer High School calibrates the VR system. A student at William J.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. The center’s database is filled with examples of how districts are trying to keep learning going from a distance. of the Aurora Institute, formerly known as iNACOL, an advocacy organization promoting competency-based education.