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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

The Hechinger Report

The Census Bureau’s 2005 American Community Survey counted 2.4 By 2014, the latest year for which data is available, that number had risen to 2.7 million in 2005 to 7.1 Eschman first discovered the Clayton County program in 2005. Maybe then they’ll get a mobile home and just take off. million in 2014.

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Sign Up Now - Fascinating New Sessions at "Privacy in the Digital Age" Virtual Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NEW TO THE PROGRAM : Barbara Bailey, Janet Nocek, and Peter Chase , three of the four librarians who in 2005 challenged an FBI demand for patron records that came without a court order and forbid them from telling anyone they had received it. To register click here. To submit to present, see below! This is a free event.

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Dana is an Ashoka Fellow, was named one of The New Leaders Council’s 40 under 40 Progressive American Leaders, and was winner of the Tides Foundation’s Jane Bagley Lehman award for excellence in public advocacy in 2014. I used to work in cafes and restaurants and in 2005 me and friend of mine set up this company with social responsibility.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. Yet, in the book most districts use — titled “Mississippi Studies” and published in 2005 — only five of 100 pages are devoted to civil rights struggles. Stennis as “politically moderate.”

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Students take their future into their own hands on climate change activism

The Hechinger Report

Watford mobilized her impoverished neighborhood of Curtis Bay, canvassing the area for four years. The plan to build that incinerator in Baltimore ignored the people behind data that showed the black-majority city’s rate of asthma-related hospitalizations was almost three times higher than the U.S.