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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. For some who have tried to return, a serious problem has presented itself. In Atlanta, where Tameka lives, parents must present at least eight documents to enroll their children — twice as many as parents in New York City or Los Angeles.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Safekeeping in 2017 | Tech & Learning → A terrifying look at the present of cyberbullying prevention: massive, pervasive digital surveillance of children and youth in schools. The article puts a positive spin on it, but this is not ok. Should it be revisited?

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

It gives parents highly specific instructions if they don’t want their children paddled: present a request, in writing, to the school principal or assistant principal, “prior to the second Monday of the beginning of each school year.”. Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school.