Education Week - Sizing Up: Blended Learning - S6

The home piece really starts with
teachers. If teachers aren't using the
learning platform, the students have
no reason to get into the system. "
MIKE EVANS
Director of information and instructional support systems,
Forsyth County (GA.) school district

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majority of the 17 schools studied
did not require students to complete
technology-based lessons, and that
on average, the students enrolled in
those schools spent only 13 minutes
on online homework a night, or a
little more than an hour each week.

Racial, Income Gaps

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While school officials' worries
about devices being damaged or
stolen can undermine blended
learning, Mr. Miller said, educators'
hesitancy is also shaped by their
awareness that many students lack
Internet access at home.
"Teachers are very concerned
about equity of performance
within the classroom among highfliers and lowfliers," Mr. Miller explained. "They're worried that kids
who are already doing great will go
home and knock it out of the park,
while the kids who are not doing
well will just fall farther and farther behind."
Home Web access has increased
steadily over time, and more than 80
percent of households are connected
to the Internet today, according to
research compiled by Child Trends,
a nonprofit research center based
in Bethesda, Md. But minority students are less likely to have connectivity at home than are their white
peers, as are impoverished students.
(See charts, pages S9, S10.)
Over the past few years, a number of private companies and nonprofit organizations have worked
together to try to expand Internet
access in poor communities, in
some cases in partnership with the
federal government.
In addition, many organizations
are urging federal officials to overhaul the E-rate program, which was
designed to improve technology access in schools and libraries in impoverished communities.
In some communities, the challenges involved in connecting students to the Internet are daunting.
Voise Academy High School,
which stands for Virtual Opportunities Inside a School Environment, is
in its sixth year of implementing a
1-to-1 computing program. Ninety-

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