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What the World Can Teach the US About Education Technology

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Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. Long-term planning and investment in infrastructure for widespread and improved access to the internet and mobile devices is critical. Chile has more mobile cellular subscriptions (127 per 100 people) than the U.S.

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With New Scorecard, Group Seeks Promises That Colleges Won’t Use Facial Recognition on Campus

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More than 40 colleges have said they do not use facial recognition technology on campus and stated they have no plans to do so, according to a new “ scorecard ” published Tuesday by an advocacy campaign titled Ban Facial Recognition on Campus. We have no current plans to use facial recognition technology in the future,” Samson said.

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edWeb and CoSN Partner to Support Superintendents and District Leaders

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Dr. Schuler is the 2018 Illinois and National Superintendent of the Year, and Dr. Gaines is the 2018-2019 president of AASA. For 25 years, CoSN has provided leaders with the management, community building and advocacy tools they need to succeed.

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Before assigning homework, ensure that students have a home

The Hechinger Report

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. Sometimes we had to go to school late, because we had to wait for the bathroom. But at school, she was labeled truant. “I percent, but was also 2.0

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Inside a Preschool That Treats the Youngest Victims of the Opioid Crisis

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Alexa Bihner, Ryder’s mother, first noticed these symptoms in her son in late 2018. Data shows that their trauma symptoms, including anxiety, anger and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), are reduced by nearly half over the course of one school year. Alexa Bihner with sons River, left, and Ryder, center, in their home.

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New data: Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones

The Hechinger Report

It’s the first time this kind of data has been compiled and analyzed nationally, and some of the spending gaps are extreme. Hechinger’s analysis of state and local spending by school included nearly 700 districts (those with 15 or more schools) from 40 states that made the data available. But he’s not surprised. That’s a problem.

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

The Hechinger Report

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. Data disclosed in U.S. “They should have been sending a bus for him.