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

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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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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

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For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. “It Their failure is my failure.”.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

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Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Shawn Young, chief executive of Classcraft, a tech company that produces educational games and other products, likens the current momentum around social-emotional learning to past trends such as the push to bring laptops and iPads to every student.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

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Over months of reporting, the AP learned of students and families avoiding school for a range of reasons. His school-issued laptop didn’t work, and because of bureaucratic hurdles the district didn’t issue a new one for several weeks. When his mother asked him about speaking to a reporter, he cursed her out. Where did they go?

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Twenty-one and in high school

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This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. I gravitated toward them.”

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Other than a few murmured conversations and the clicking of keyboards, the only sound was mellow acoustic guitar music played on their teacher’s laptop. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.