To celebrate, All4Ed will host a webinar highlighting innovative schools and districts that are providing equitable digital access to students with the help of creative funding solutions, strategic resources, and community and state partnerships. On February 27, schools and classrooms across the country will showcase how technology is transforming learning for thousands of students and teachers as part of Digital Learning Day 2020. In February, our #OurChallengeOurHope campaign will explore the progress made in closing the digital equity gap and highlight innovative schools and districts working to eliminate the remaining disparities, especially for their historically underserved students. Today, digital tools are a no-brainer in classrooms, but what happens when students need access to those same digital tools at home to complete homework assignments or to actively extend their learning beyond textbooks? Educators hoped their students had appropriate tools, such as pencils and paper, to utilize in their classrooms. Board Education was passed sixty-five years ago, digital devices were non-existent. This video highlights the human cost of zero tolerance policies and what school systems need to provide to help their students grow rather than adding pain and difficulty. ![]() In the aftermath, Gloria was expelled, typecast, and nearly lost to both herself and her community. When she was in middle school, Gloria was waiting in the lunch line when another student cut in front of her - and picked a fight with her friends. In this infographic from the ACLU, learn how zero-tolerance policies are criminalizing minor infractions of school rules and how black students are disproportionately affected by school disciplinary policies. In this piece from MSNBC, Dennis Parker, director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, explores the root causes behind the school-to-prison pipeline and the connection to Brown v. Increasingly, disciplinary policies are forcing students of color out of the educational system and into the criminal justice system. Learn More Photo illustration by Mina Liu for MSNBC, Photos by Scott Olson/Getty Known to be academic powerhouses, thus making their re-entry into traditional schools Go through it only once, before finding themselves in juvenile detention Some students go through this cycle a few times, while other After being suspended or expelled, students are often sent to these schools and, as a result, may experience a significant lack of academic and social emotional growth
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