Time to rehumanize education for all students Failed digital learning needs less laptops, more quality teachers, counselors and support staff Follow Us
Question of the Day
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
After months of virtual school, the results are in. Digital learning has failed.
With districts all over the country reporting skyrocketing rates of failing grades, especially among Black, Hispanic and lower-socioeconomic students, this model of education is harmful to our neediest students.
Since the early 2000’s, tech executives like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Dell have been, through their philanthropic organizations, shaping educational policy. Hundreds of millions were spent to promote a radically new direction for education. Much like school during the pandemic, their ideal school puts students in charge of their own learning while relegating teachers to a mentor role, only stepping in when students need help.
education act to pass opportunity academies, residential opportunity academies around centers. national urban league is going to expand its effort to provide job training for formerly incarcerated african-american men. we are going to take an initiative and add ten to 15 sites within the next 12 months. because part of reunifying the family is giving men dignity through work and then they can do a better job to support their obligation. let me sound two warnings. i believe in hbcus, but let me tell you something, we re losing our kids around the seventh grade before they ever get to an hbcu. we talk about elementary and secondary. elementary, one through sixth.