Why remote learning worsens education inequality
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🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:32.6 | Learn more at meta.com. Education has gone online, but not all education is proving to be equal. |
| 0:49.0 | According to the New York Times, one analysis from this spring found that the move to online learning |
| 0:55.2 | puts the average kid about seven months behind. |
| 0:58.8 | But the average Latin ex student, nine months behind, the average black student, 10 months behind. But there are some |
| 1:05.1 | schools that are doing better. Some schools are adapting to help make remote |
| 1:09.4 | learning work better for kids and for teachers to shrink that gap. |
| 1:14.0 | So, how are they doing it? |
| 1:16.0 | Anna North is a senior reporter here at Vox |
| 1:18.0 | who's been covering this story. |
| 1:20.0 | So Anna, you wrote a piece about the difficulties of online learning and what we can do to make things better for students. |
| 1:28.0 | You told us about one school in the Bronx. Walk me into that school, what's it like? |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah, so I talked to folks at Compsai High School. It is a charter school, it's part of the |
| 1:38.8 | Urban Assembly network of charter schools, but is a public school located in the Bronx. It's a school that's in a high |
| 1:44.3 | poverty area. About 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced price lunch. |
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