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OPINION: Here’s why chronically underfunded HBCUs are needed now more than ever

The Hechinger Report

Recognizing that student success in the classroom hinges on student wellness, new campus partnerships among faculty, staff and administration — such as student success centers and campus health counseling centers — give students support when they most need it. Second, we’ve taken ownership of the digital divide at the institutional level.

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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. The digital divide. It has been slow.”.

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Students have their own demands for school reopening

The Hechinger Report

The organizations collaborated to articulate 10 principles for reopening that include listening to students, closing the digital divide, addressing basic needs, moving away from one-size-fits-all instruction and evaluation and creating an inclusive curriculum.

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

Vaux’s redesign stresses creating close relationships with parents and community members and ways for student learning to continue beyond the classroom walls. Related: Can high-poverty urban districts like Philadelphia close the digital divide? The educators at Vaux accept that non-school life will enter the classroom.

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