More than 4,000 students in the district had to start the school year without the computers they needed for remote learning. In 2018, 10 million students didn’t have an adequate device at home, a study found. Japan alone is expected to order 7 million devices. But North American schools are still likely to end the year with a shortage of more than 5 million devices, he said. While they wait for the order, students without computers are missing out on education.

Source: bd News24 October 12, 2020 05:48 UTC