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Secure Moodle-KITABOO Integration: DRM-Protected Digital Publishing

Kitaboo on EdTech

The integrity of personal data and proprietary information is increasingly jeopardized, necessitating robust measures for secure content distribution. Since its development by Martin Dougiamas in 2002, Moodle has risen to become one of the top learning management systems of 2024. Wrapping Up What is Moodle?

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OPINION: The Biden administration has a real chance to boost early childhood education

The Hechinger Report

Data collected through our statewide, longitudinal study show s that in Massachusetts, only about 55 percent of families use formal care, while 45 percent rely on parental care or informal arrangements like home-based or non-parental relative care. In his 2002 State of the Union Address, former President George W.

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

In 2002, federal education law began requiring schools to spend federal dollars on research-based products only. And Edgenuity agreed that it shouldn’t have calculated student growth the way it did, and said it would edit its case study, though at the time of publication the misleading data still topped its list of “success stories.”.

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. A Hechinger Report/inewsource analysis of California community college data yielded stark results.

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PROOF POINTS: The evolving science of how kids contract and spread coronavirus

The Hechinger Report

The British team, publishing in the journal Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, found that school closures in Asia during the SARS virus outbreak from 2002 to 2004 weren’t helpful. The next day, he tweeted that the CDC guidelines issued in May were too impractical and expensive. The CDC issued new guidelines on July 23.