FCC Can Do More To Close Homework Gap Amid Coronavirus.

The Homework Gap: Teacher Perspectives on Closing the Digital Divide. The homework gap refers to the divide between students who have home broadband access and those who do not. It is also an indicator of whether or not a student will be able to complete their homework and succeed in school alongside their internet-connected peers. To better understand how this gap persists today, Common Sense.

The Homework Gap is a problem for these students. But it's a problem for all of us, because this gap harms our shared economic future. When students lack access to online resources at home, teachers shy away from integrating technology into their teaching.

But the homework gap can exist even in households that do have Internet service, according to Sarah Trimble-Oliver, the chief information officer for Cincinnati Public Schools. A couple of years ago, that district surveyed its students to ask if they had Internet at home, and 75 percent of students answered yes. However, Trimble-Oliver soon discovered that they hadn't asked the right question.

Research has shown that the homework gap affects students in both rural and urban areas and disproportionately affects lower-income students and students of color. Students without internet access at home consistently score lower in reading, math, and science. Without Congressional action, this existing inequity will only be exacerbated by the high number of schools that are suspending in.

And the homework gap in many ways mirrors broader educational barriers for poor and minority students. Students without internet service at home are more likely to be those of color, from low.

Lack of home Internet access for school children is an all-too common problem, one that the FCC has referred to as “the homework gap.” Today, American schools are investing billions of dollars.

Closing the homework gap is challenging, but here are five steps school leaders can take to help students stay connected. Schools are facing new challenges now that most learning involves the web—chiefly, the ability to do work at home or anywhere away from school grounds. While many are looking for ways to provide all students with a device, just having the device does not mean equitable.

Other ideas to bridge the homework gap included establishing Wi-Fi “hot spots” on school buses to allow students to do homework there. Palmyra, just east of Lincoln, has a brand-new high.

The median gender gap was 1.2 years in 1960, and it only reduced by a third over the next fifty years to 0.8 years. Women are much more educated today than we were, but we are still quite a lot less educated than men. Fact 2: Gender gaps rarely persist in educated countries. Some welcome news is that countries where men are highly educated and women are not highly educated are rare. To examine.

The “homework gap” I’m referring to is the estimated 12 million children in this country who have difficulty completing routine homework assignments and other projects online because they lack reliable home internet access. It’s hard to know how many students fall into that gap here, but it appears to be a significant percentage of our dwindling school-age population. The county Office.