Learning at Home While Under-Connected

Getting children back to school in September provides an unprecedented opportunity to do better by lower-income families—those who have borne the brunt of the impact of school building closures for more than a year and have been hardest hit by the health and economic crises of the pandemic. A new report, Learning at Home While Under-Connected: Lower-Income Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic, follows up on 2016's Opportunity for All? Technology and Learning in Lower-Income Families, to uncover the perspectives of lower-income parents with children ages 3 to 13. The report delves into their experiences learning at home, what they discovered about their children's learning needs, and their priorities for the future. It provides timely, pointed, and thought-provoking insights on the challenges of being under-connected when trying to support young students at home without adequate devices and internet connections. Based on a telephone survey of more than 1,000 parents, the report also includes quotes and links to briefs from discussions with nearly three dozen lower-income parents in Pittsburgh, Detroit, and in Santa Clara County, CA.

Join us for a national forum to unveil these findings and discuss how to act on this data to better support families, schools, and community-based organizations in the coming months. Conversation will include new ideas for applying funding from the American Rescue Plan and new initiatives such as the Emergency Broadband Benefit.

Follow the conversation @NewAmericaEd and via #underconnected on Twitter.

Click here to see full agenda: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/events/learning-at-home-during-covid/

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