Coronavirus Quarantines Could Rob Poor, Rural Students Of Access To Education

If the coronavirus forces schools to shut down for long stretches of time, millions of students will struggle to keep up because they don’t have broadband to do schoolwork at home.

What’s known as “the homework gap” could be devastating for students who can’t easily use the internet — especially in poor urban areas and rural districts where families don’t have a home laptop or high-speed internet connections. Federal and state officials have long known about the online education gap in America, but spending money to fix the problem wasn’t prioritized. If there are mass school closures, it will be too late…………….