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 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.