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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. In 2014 the FCC modernized the E-Rate program to make it more affordable for schools and libraries to upgrade their internet connection speeds. Access Resources.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

The book was valuable for state geography and basic vocabulary, she said, but using it to teach about the Civil Rights Movement was out of the question. In a 2014 report, the group said the state had improved somewhat, covering 50 percent of recommended content. Her assigned ninth-grade textbook back then? And not just in February.

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