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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

. — After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Ramos’ parents promised to buy her a laptop eventually, but bills mounted and it wasn’t in the family’s budget.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

In a knit cap and long-sleeve raglan T-shirt, Clause was hovering over his laptop in the co-working space that serves as Rivet’s Richmond outpost, not far from the shipyard where women were recruited into service during World War II by a poster featuring the fictitious Rosie the Riveter, from whom the school took its name.

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Temple University is spending millions to get more students through college, but is there a cheaper way?

The Hechinger Report

Jones discussed programs at Temple that provide financial resources to students the university thinks are at risk of dropping out, while Tough discussed the power of just telling students they belong in college—a potentially far cheaper solution to the college dropout crisis. Subscribe to our Higher Ed newsletter.

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How do you manage college online — quarantined with eight people?

The Hechinger Report

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. He spent more than one morning at his family’s kitchen table, staring at his laptop, his thoughts frayed. He spent more than one morning at his family’s kitchen table, staring at his laptop, his thoughts frayed.

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A year of personalized learning: Mistakes, moving furniture and making it work

The Hechinger Report

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” Other students struggled with the freedom of toting the personal Chromebook laptops the school gave out.

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Personalized Learning: Mistakes, Moving Furniture and Making it Work

MindShift

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” Other students struggled with the freedom of toting the personal Chromebook laptops the school gave out.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. His school-issued laptop didn’t work, and because of bureaucratic hurdles the district didn’t issue a new one for several weeks. Ezekiel West, 10, opens up his K12/Stride school loaner laptop computer outside his home in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan.

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