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From High School to Harvard, Students Urge for Clarity on Privacy Rights

Edsurge

In particular, many students, for whom these efforts intend to protect, are still unaware of their rights when it comes to how their online footprints are tracked—whether by third-party companies or sometimes the school districts themselves. In an interview with EdSurge, ACLU’s Advocacy and Policy Counsel, Chad A.

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The Challenges of Broadband Access in Rural Schools

edWeb.net

Telecom companies often forget about rural areas because they don’t have high population density. For example, community members may use school computers to fill out necessary online paperwork with assistance from school staff or help local civic organizations set up alumni databases and communications networks. Jamie holds a B.A.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam: One of the things that’s pretty interesting since the last time we talked, Vicki, is that I was part of a group originally in 2010 that started lobbying of superintendents. So you wouldn’t find, for example, with technology — Albemarle has been in a one-to-one environment for a number of years now, as has Charlottesville City.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

“It’s essentially a vestige of colonialism,” said Roberto Jiménez Rivera, a rare example of a native Puerto Rican from modest means who went to college on the mainland, where he now is an assistant director of admissions at Tufts University. Department of Education says.

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Funding Edtech with the E-Rate Program and Grants

edWeb.net

In 2010 the FCC appointed her to the USAC board representing the nation’s schools and libraries on ERATE. She is a past board member and chair of CoSN and is Vice President of Advocacy and Programs for LACUE. She served as general counsel of a broadband company, and as a partner in a major international law firm in Washington D.C.,

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Kidcasts: Podcasts for kiddos

NeverEndingSearch

Kitty and Lindsay are among the eight founding members of the recently launched kidcasting advocacy platform, Kids Listen , a new grassroots organization of advocates for high-quality audio content for children. Whether it’s music, science, bedtime stories, or literature, we crave feedback from teachers on the front lines.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In 2010, it gave $200,000 each to Portland and two other districts to develop plans for “district level system change” focused on “student-centered approaches,” including proficiency-based education. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts.

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