The Oakland Education Week in Review: 6/29-7/5

Last week, several stories on the digital divide and solving it, my first internet show, a powerful mural goes up to represent solidarity, BLM in Oakland on the street and horseback, a look at the re-opening plans and budget shortfalls, a high tech summer camp using equitable pricing, the academic effects of COVID and more, please read, share and get involved

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Other Stories:

  • The Problem with Officer Friendly in Schools
    • It is well past time to re-assess what the police really do, and to get police who understand, represent and serve the community.  And as schools we need to assess the context that Officer Friendly is presented.  It should not be one that rubs against the experiences of many if not most of the youth in the room.
  • How Much Are Children Falling Behind In School Because Of COVID-19 Pandemic?
    • Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Robin Lake, director of the Center for Reinventing Public Education. Lake says over the past few months of online learning, one in five school districts expected real-time teaching, and when school starts in the fall the average student may be one full year behind in math.
  • Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus
    • In the rural Deep South, Black residents born into poverty have long struggled to escape it. Schools here are among the most ill-resourced in the nation, well-paying jobs are few and necessities like Wi-Fi, public transportation and medical insurance are often out of reach. In Washington County, where Johnson lives, 34 percent of families live below the poverty line. More than half of children in the county between the ages of 5 to 17 live in poverty. As the economic and health crisis caused by the coronavirus spreads across the region, advocates and scholars fear it will plunge families deeper into poverty and inflame existing racial and geographic inequities, with dire consequences for a generation of children.
  • Thousands of Indianapolis students don’t have internet. An ambitious plan could help.
    • During the coronavirus outbreak, U.S. schools are using online instruction more than ever before. Affluent suburban districts quickly shifted to virtual teaching, sometimes hosting regular classes by video each day. But lots of students simply don’t have the reliable, high-speed internet access they need to participate. The problem is a particular concern in Indiana, where about 150,000 children lack access to the internet, according to the 2018 American Community Survey.
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