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

The Hechinger Report

Ramos knew there were many kids like her, eager to keep up with school but lacking the technology to do so. Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools. To her, it was “heartbreaking.”.

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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.