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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

The threat of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is forcing educators across the country to think about what they’ll do if they have to close their schools for weeks or even months at a time. State and federal agencies have advised schools to create online learning plans to minimize the disruption to student learning.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. . – Kylie Mollicone, third grade teacher.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. .” - Kylie Mollicone, third grade teacher.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” “More than 150 House and Senate Democrats sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter Monday that objected to her department’s recently announced shift in how it chooses the contractors that service federal student loans ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. State and Local) Education Politics.