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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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Gentz reports that there has been confusion about deadlines, many of which are federal but some of which are state imposed. She has also leveraged these skills to create employee onboarding and training programs at Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber.

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School Leadership Strategies for Preventing and Responding to Cyberattacks

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The top cybersecurity threats to schools outlined in the CoSN Cybersecurity Report are Phishing, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), Data Breach, Ransomware, and IoT (Internet of Things) Attacks. In 2007, he was the first educational leader to bring Google for Education into a K-12 school setting. The Threats.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes -- think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. ” The New York Times also reports that the Trump Foundation will not pay the $25 million settlement for Trump. (It

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “Members of Congress are in an unusual position as they demand an explanation for Mylan NV's 400 percent price hike for the EpiPen and focus attention squarely on its CEO: Heather Bresch,” Bloomberg reports. “Coding Startup Treehouse Trims Staff to ‘Cross the Chasm to Profitability’,” Edsurge reports.

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

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The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months. When questioned by reporters from The New York Times and elsewhere, Trump has repeated his accusation that these journalists constitute “fake news.” ” Their reporting should not be trusted.

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The Politics of Education Technology

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One of the flaws, I think, of much of the reporting on education technology is that it treats “ed-tech” as a product without a politics and without a practice. This reporting treats “ed-tech” as a product built in and by Silicon Valley, not as something built in and by public institutions around the world.