As part of the advanced International Baccalaureate (IB) program at Baltimore City College high school, teacher Franca Muller Paz submits Zoom recordings of her Spanish language students to evaluators. This year, due to the remote learning necessitated by the pandemic, there’s been a problem. Not with the students’ proficiency — but with their internet connections.
“Their internet would go out while they were presenting, so there are mistakes in their official IB presentations,” Muller Paz said. “It’s really tough for them to make sure that they can do the things that they need to do for these rigorous classes that’s being demanded of them, yet they don’t have the internet speeds that they need to make it happen.” Read more…
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