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Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

Digital Divide: Teaching Kids During Coronavirus

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6538 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As the coronavirus pandemic has forced schools across the country to close, educators have scrambled to get their curriculum and their students online. Joe Holland, CEO of Teachers Pay Teachers, and Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, talk about how their organizations are supporting teachers, students, and parents during the coronavirus, and the particular challenges that students from lower socio-economic backgrounds face.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Boss Files. I'm Poppy Harlow. For all of us, our routines have been completely upended by the coronavirus pandemic.

0:09.3

Frankly, for those of us who are healthy, we feel lucky just to be healthy and grateful to all of those helping care for sick patients on the front lines.

0:18.3

As far as my job as a journalist, well, my day job anchoring for CNN hasn't changed.

0:24.0

Good morning, everyone. I'm Poppy Harlow. But what happens when I get home certainly has.

0:31.0

When I walk in the door every day right around noon, my two kids, little kids, are here waiting for me instead of being at their preschool.

0:39.0

Like just about every other child in the country, their schools are closed. And so my daily

0:43.6

routine now involves another job, teacher. So right at noon, every day, it's Zoom class

0:49.9

online for our four-year-old girl, Sienna. My husband and I, we do our best.

0:55.1

Where do you think?

0:58.0

Where do you think he went, honey?

1:00.1

No.

1:00.7

You don't know?

1:01.2

That's okay.

1:01.6

Do you have a guess?

1:04.1

Well, maybe he's going to blow down his own house.

1:12.9

Well, we're working on it.

1:15.5

So today's show is all about this new normal for parents, for children, and for their teachers.

1:21.0

I talked to the leaders of two education organizations that are doing what they can to make sure that students don't fall behind and that

1:28.4

teachers have the resources they need for this new reality, which is teaching remotely.

1:33.6

Bless all of our teachers, by the way, we get into that.

1:37.0

A little bit later in the show, I talked to Reshma Sajani.

1:39.6

She is the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code.

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