Homework Gap Became 'Chasm' Due to COVID-19, New America Says
New America’s Open Technology Institute said the FCC should use its authority to increase E-rate funding and grant school districts flexibility to reprogram funds to extend connectivity to students at home. It cited communities that innovated in response to the…
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pandemic. “While the ‘homework gap’ was a serious problem long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the necessity of remote learning in 2020 has turned the homework gap into a chasm,” Tuesday's report said.