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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. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We

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

The Hechinger Report

They typically come from K-12 school systems that lack resources like state-of-the-art learning technology, curriculum and student supports. for example, some 1. For example, when the reality of the pandemic hit Benedict, we weren’t sure how our students would get home safely. Across the U.S.,

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

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The housing authority and the district, which manages the school, hired Big Picture Learning, a nationally recognized education nonprofit, to operate it. Vaux’s redesign stresses creating close relationships with parents and community members and ways for student learning to continue beyond the classroom walls.

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