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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

The Hechinger Report

Such closures have a disastrous impact on education in STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and math. student of color and a past New York City public school educator, I am particularly concerned about how these closures are hurting Hispanic and Black children and those from low-income families.

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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. It was so much bigger than just education.

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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

The Hechinger Report

Johnson also didn’t want her children to go through the next two months with no educational tools beyond the worksheets she’d picked up from the Greenville Public School District and limited access to online materials through Kentiona’s phone, shared between the four of them. Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning.

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4 things innovative districts do to improve graduation rates

eSchool News

Yet every student in Piedmont is given a laptop in school and to take home and, through partnerships developed by the district, can access free or low-cost broadband 24/7. Early exposure to higher learning is key to inspiring first-generation college students who may not view postsecondary education as an option.

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Coronavirus becomes unprecedented test for teacher-student relationships

The Hechinger Report

Eileen Wood, a first-grade teacher in Stoneham, Massachusetts, joined educators last month in a parade through town to greet students after schools closed. The conversations reminded me why the relationships teachers form with children – and vice versa – are so often the key to educational success. How will we graduate?” said Glick. “I

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

The Hechinger Report

Anna Phelan , kindergarten teacher at Overbrook Educational Center in Philadelphia. It feels really good and really important that our children… have access to in-person, five-day-a-week education. I think the oldest of my children, whose education was synchronous … fell behind substantially less than the others.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. to 11:30 p.m,