The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning — broadband internet beyond school walls. If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem.”. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2019

In Albemarle County, Virginia, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, radio towers rise above an apple orchard on Carters Mountain, outside Charlottesville. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? –will be refined and these ideas will become more established practices integrated into in-person learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

That changed when his school district in Fairfield County, South Carolina, switched to online learning during the pandemic. Online, he has no problem asking the teacher a question,” said Woodward. Henry McMaster pushed hard to return all schools to in-person learning this fall, saying remote learning was “not as good.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Discovery Elementary second-graders (from left) Zoe Byard, Leah Kamholz and Gabriela Sicuranza explore their school’s online “energy dashboard.” While the net-zero school trend is still relatively small, it has taken hold in districts of every geographic and socioeconomic description.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

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