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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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Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource – a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools – called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?”

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Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” VR “comes of age,” says Campus Technology. ” Via Campus Technology : “New Education Think Tank Debuts, Offering Online News and Research.” ” More via The New York Times. ” It’s called FutureEd.

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“ Andrew Ng Wants a New ‘New Deal’ to Combat Job Automation ,” said MIT Technology Review. Underscoring how precarious this labor is, an adjunct at the school lost her teaching contract one week after the Chronicle story was published, after she defended LGBTQ rights in a post on Facebook.). ECOT refuses to pay.

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.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Minnesota community college was justified when it kicked a student out of a nursing program because of Facebook comments administrators deemed to be unprofessional and threatening to fellow students.”