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

The Hechinger Report

The district lacked a system for tracking how many students weren’t logging on to classes for lack of a working computer, tablet or internet connection at home. “We We didn’t even have infrastructure on tracking devices,” Thomas said.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

Curry said she wasn’t given any sense of when her granddaughter would be able to return to the classroom, just that the school and administrators would determine the best learning environment for her. Some school districts consider virtual learning an alternative to discipline — not a form of discipline itself.