Digital Educational Apartheid

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“According to a recent report for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, there exists …

… a high school dropout epidemic in America. Each year, almost one third of all public high school students and nearly one half of all blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans fail to graduate from public high school with their class. Many of these students abandon school with less than two years to complete their high school education. Given the clear detrimental economic and personal costs to them, why do young people drop out of high school in such large numbers?”1

At the same time, many well-meaning educators, politicians, and citizens are basking in self-congratulations for having successfully eliminated the at-school digital divide the gap between individuals able to benefit from technology and those who arent as a contributing factor to this Silent Epidemic. But, millions of our countrys economically and socially disadvantaged learners are still suffering a Digital Learning Apartheid. For them, digital isolation at home only further expands the gaps in digital learning participation and academic achievement between them and the have learners.”

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