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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. While there are certainly exceptions, this human interaction standard can serve as a compass to guide our investments and advocacy. Let’s start a movement.

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

The Hechinger Report

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. Tameka says she’s unaware of any outreach from Atlanta schools. Communities such as St.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. she said, because her family was having to move from motel to motel.

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Arne Duncan Joins Board of Ed-Tech Company Pluralsight

Marketplace K-12

In March, the former secretary announced he was joining the Emerson Collective , a philanthropic and advocacy organization, as a managing partner, and would work in Chicago to help dropouts and young people with criminal records.

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

The Hechinger Report

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership. The homework gap isn’t new.

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They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines

The Hechinger Report

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility. It sometimes takes him hours to type assignments.

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