As the coronavirus outbreak continues to shut down schools and colleges nationwide, education experts warn of the “online penalty” many students will face and how schools and governments will need to respond.
According to Justin Reich, a professor at MIT and Director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, we must consider the reality that not all of our nation’s 51 million public school students have access to computers, WiFi or even a safe place to study.
“The most important issue here is one of equity,” explains Reich. “There are millions of students in the US who, under the very best of circumstances, have seriously limited access to the internet.” shows that 44% of households in the U.S. with incomes below $30,000 a year don’t have home broadband services and 46% don’t own a computer.
“When an entire family is competing for devices and bandwidth for news, work, and school, there will be no scenario for schools and teachers to provision education for students in poverty impacted neighborhoods,” says Reich.“I expect that most schools will find what— that high-performing students who do well anywhere do well online, but that most students experience an online penalty, and that penalty is worse for the most vulnerable students in our system.
Not only do low-income students face learning challenges when schools are closed, they also risk losing access to meals and health services provided by schools. In the U.S., more than two-thirds of the 31 million students who regularly eat school lunch are economically dependent upon the meal, and low-income kids similarly
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