{"id":27440,"date":"2021-04-21T19:08:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=27440"},"modified":"2021-04-21T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:08:45","slug":"special-report-by-rachael-sorcher-on-public-school-inequity-during-the-pandemic-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2021\/04\/21\/special-report-by-rachael-sorcher-on-public-school-inequity-during-the-pandemic-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL REPORT BY RACHAEL SORCHER ON PUBLIC SCHOOL INEQUITY DURING THE PANDEMIC AND BEYOND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic has flipped the world upside down, and it has also turned bedrooms into classrooms. \u00a0In March of 2020, teachers and students alike were thrown into the unknown world of online learning. \u00a0This learning environment has inherent barriers, but it troubles some kids more than others such as low-income students and students of color. \u00a0A look into home classrooms reveal the inequities in our school systems that the pandemic has exposed. \u00a0As schools begin to reopen, educators and public heath experts says it is vital to understand the impact of this online experience. \u00a0WTBU Reporter Rachael Sorcher has the story.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27440-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/wtbu\/files\/2021\/04\/Sorcher_Story1_mixdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/wtbu\/files\/2021\/04\/Sorcher_Story1_mixdown.mp3\">\/wtbu\/files\/2021\/04\/Sorcher_Story1_mixdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic has flipped the world upside down, and it has also turned bedrooms into classrooms. \u00a0In March of 2020, teachers and students alike were thrown into the unknown world of online learning. \u00a0This learning environment has inherent barriers, but it troubles some kids more than others such as low-income students and students of color. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1598,1608],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27446,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27440\/revisions\/27446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}