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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

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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. “I Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. I do what I can, whenever I can, for my children,” she said. Credit: Terri Johnson.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Buzzfeed : “The Education Department Quietly Invited Anti-LGBT Groups To A Father’s Day Event.” ” “More Than Half of School Expenditures Spent on Classroom Instruction ,” says the Census Bureau. ” Via NPR : “How To Apply The Brain Science Of Resilience To The Classroom.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “My Statement: White House HBCU Event” by Dillard University president Walter Kimbrough. Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” “ Apple ’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms,” according to The New York Times. ” More via The New York Times.

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Education's Online Futures

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There were some notable updates in the MOOC world this year, I suppose, in addition to Thrun bringing his puppy, strapped to his chest, on stage at one of Techcrunch’s events: Coursera laid off about 13% of its staff, Recode reported in October , that despite raising $64 million at a $800 million valuation in June. ECOT refuses to pay.

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