Giving Compass' Take:

• Researchers at University of Texas at Austin and Pew found that low-income students don't always have access to the digital resources required to complete homework assignments, as this Global Citizen article explores.

• What can those in the education sector do to close these gaps? The first step is to acknowledge the problem and make sure that we aren't making it worse by introducing expensive edtech to only a select few.

• Some districts are trying to address this problem with WiFi on buses.

Schools are dishing out homework assignments that require using a computer or the internet, but many students don’t have the resources to complete them, the Atlantic reports.

New research shows that while digital learning seems to be the latest education trend, all students don’t necessarily benefit from it. Pew Research Center released a study on Friday reporting that 1 in 5 US teenagers can't finish their homework because of the digital divide.

This gets even more complicated when low-income students attend schools pandering to a more affluent demographic with technologically driven education. Schools adopting software for students to submit coursework online put low-income students at a disadvantage.

One federal survey found 70% of teacher participants assign homework that needs to be completed online. In a 2017 study, 90% of high schoolers reported they were assigned internet-based homework several times a month, and almost half of them received online take-home assignments. The Pew study found 15% of US households with school-aged children don’t have reliable internet access, meaning a lot of students aren't able to finish their assignments.

Low-income students disproportionately miss out — 1 in 3 households that make under $30,000 a year don’t have internet. And lacking internet access at home can make or break a student’s academic achievement.

Read the full article about how tech-based education puts low-income students at a disadvantage by Leah Rodriguez at Global Citizen.