Dropout Laptops Libraries 
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 23, 2020
Estrella Rodriguez, a pregnant community college student with her 5-year-old daughter, Nevaeh, is grateful for the women who bought her diapers when they saw her on line at Costco, but also anxious to get her laptop computer back from her shuttered campus. Photo by Uvaldo Rodriguez. She said she is “forever grateful.” Photo by Rashad Paige.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2022
. — 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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The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
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.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 8, 2020
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.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
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.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 8, 2018
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 17, 2016
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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