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  • Learn Charter School - Excel
  • Chicago, IL
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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My 60 urban 5th graders are in large city in Illinois, where most parents don't have the resources to equip their homes with things like computers or internet access. In fact at least 97% of our kids receive free or reduced lunch and free breakfast. Many get their pencils and folders from local charity drives. Our school has a few donated (read: old and outdated) desktop computers available for classroom use and a few more extremely stripped down and only partially functional netbooks for us to use. As a charter school we are largely responsible for creating our curriculum and have a strong technology push, but are often overlooked by companies seeking the tax write-off of helping an elementary school guide young minds into the 21st century world. And yet my students crave learning through technology. We have discovered that there are times Youtube can teach in five minutes what fifteen pages of xeroxed text cannot, especially to students with reading challenges.

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My 60 urban 5th graders are in large city in Illinois, where most parents don't have the resources to equip their homes with things like computers or internet access. In fact at least 97% of our kids receive free or reduced lunch and free breakfast. Many get their pencils and folders from local charity drives. Our school has a few donated (read: old and outdated) desktop computers available for classroom use and a few more extremely stripped down and only partially functional netbooks for us to use. As a charter school we are largely responsible for creating our curriculum and have a strong technology push, but are often overlooked by companies seeking the tax write-off of helping an elementary school guide young minds into the 21st century world. And yet my students crave learning through technology. We have discovered that there are times Youtube can teach in five minutes what fifteen pages of xeroxed text cannot, especially to students with reading challenges.

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