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

The Hechinger Report

. — 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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A year of personalized learning: Mistakes, moving furniture and making it work

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Personalized Learning: Mistakes, Moving Furniture and Making it Work

MindShift

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.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

The Hechinger Report

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. We provided laptops and tablets as well as ‘hot spots’ to all our girls who needed them,” Hall said. “We

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