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Cybersecurity Remains the Top Concern for School IT Leaders for the Fifth Year Straight

EdTech Magazine

Since appearing on the first Consortium for School Networking’s State of EdTech Leadership survey in 2013 as a low priority, the topic of cybersecurity has skyrocketed in importance to K–12 IT leaders.

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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Respondents reported that having a fun work environment will increase the levels of enthusiasm, satisfaction, creativity, communications among staff and enhanced feelings of group cohesiveness (Ford et al., As a principal, I created the Professional Growth Period (PGP) to grant unconditional autonomy to my staff. Newstrom, J.W. Sauvagère, S.

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Report: Gates Foundation’s College Advising Initiative Had Little Impact on Students

Edsurge

One of the more high profile efforts has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which in 2013 began providing grant funding to colleges and companies for its Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success initiative, or iPASS for short. The ultimate goal is to help more students persist and finish college.

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New report underscores education problems in institutions for foster youth

The Hechinger Report

A new report says the state of Pennsylvania ought to be doing more to oversee such facilities serving foster and delinquent children. Photo: Caroline Preston for The Hechinger Report/HuffPost. But the report released today suggests that many of these foster children are attending on-grounds schools in lieu of public schools.

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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

Palardy (2013) investigated high school-aged students to examine socioeconomic segregation’s impact on student attainment outcomes. Neighborhood segregation and district boundaries have contributed to this (Palardy, 2013). High school transcripts were collected for additional data (Palardy, 2013).

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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

The Hechinger Report

When kids go to school right now there are more adults in the building of all types than there were in 2013 and more than when I was a kid,” said Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, where she has been tracking the divergence between students and staff at the nation’s public schools.

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Looking Back on 2013

Philly Teacher

As 2013 comes to a close, it is time to reflect on the past year. 2013 proved to be quite a transformative one. Spring 2013. 2013 began with the honor of being named PAECT ‘s Teacher of the Year in February. End of the School Year/Summer 2013. Winter 2013. It was a heroic effort.

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