Steven Hale
1 min readMay 6, 2020

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From the little that I’ve observed, quarantining plus online education has resulted in (certain) parents being more involved with their children’s education — not just the curriculum but the delivery system.

And from what I’ve gleaned from the Amazon summary of your book Hyper Education (hoping to read the entire work soon), not only the private tutorial system that DeVos is touting (if it were up to DeVos, there would be no government schools at all), but the online model of course delivery as well may serve to further exacerbate the gap between privileged and underprivileged.

If K-12 were adequately funded, online tutoring would be a significant service to be provided by public education, not low-hanging fruit for privateers to scoop up. Universities provide online writing labs (OWLs) and math labs at no additional charge. Why can’t public education (with adequate funding from the states and the Department of Education) do the same for their curricula?

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Steven Hale
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