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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. for the nonprofit.

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More students are graduating but that’s not the whole story

The Hechinger Report

It also shows that only 8 percent of high school graduates in 2013 completed a full college- and career-prep curriculum. students’ stagnating and even declining proficiency rates at some grade levels in reading and math on a national assessment. And the answers you get to the latter can depend heavily on whom you ask.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.