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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

The Hechinger Report

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. National data suggest there’s a rising need for mental health supports for adolescents. Arizona has the highest student-to-counselor ratio in the nation at 905-to-1.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Privacy overlaps with “personalization,” and surveillance overlaps with data collection and analytics and algorithmic decision-making. Among the larger National Education Association (NEA), which comprises more than 3 million members, more than one in three who voted did so for the billionaire developer, early data show.”