The Allure of a Technological Solve: Hybrid Schedules for High School Students Dealing With Multiple Institutional Failures

• In Event: How Technology Shapes Educational Opportunity: Promise and Pitfalls

Abstract

Within the broader explosion of technology and artificial intelligence in schools, hybrid schedules, where students are in person for some of the time but learning online outside of school for the rest, are expanding from their largely suburban roots into new geographic areas and different student populations before we have a solid research base to know if it works. This conference paper offers a case study of one small school in Los Angeles serving a disproportionate number of the city’s most marginalized students. While the school has done an incredible job at building a loving, supportive community replete with resources for their students, their academic program has suffered, in part because of their reliance on a hybrid schedule.

Author

• Brett Gardiner Murphy, Graduate Center - CUNY