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OPINION: Want to improve our public schools? Create an impressive principal pipeline

The Hechinger Report

No one can deny the pandemic’s devastating impact on America’s public schools. The pandemic also made it impossible to ignore the inequities faced by Black and Latino students — such as limited access to digital resources, rigorous coursework and skilled educators. The post OPINION: Want to improve our public schools?

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OPINION: Online homework tools trade ‘busy work’ for feedback to help end inequities in schools

The Hechinger Report

As a computer scientist and a former middle-school math teacher, I believe strongly that we can marry the promise of new technology and evidence-based instructional practices to address inequities in our public school system. One area where this can happen now, if schools take the right steps, is with online homework tools.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

Faced with the unprecedented challenge of lengthy school closures because of coronavirus, the nation’s roughly 13,000 public school districts are scrambling to cope. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. Public Schools offer on-demand online tutoring sessions.