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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

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Rebecca Koenig (March 16, 2020) Administration and Leadership How is all this being negotiated with teachers unions? Rebecca Koenig (March 16, 2020) How will this affect teacher pay? There are efforts to collect and share offerings from companies that want to help impacted schools. Don’t Pitch Them Right Now.

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K-12 Leaders Unite for ‘Check the Privacy,’ a One-Stop Shop for Safe Classroom Tech

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Called Check the Privacy , the initiative, announced Wednesday, aims to provide a one-stop shop for educators searching for safe, secure tools to use with their students. A screenshot of Check the Privacy's searchable library of more than 7,000 edtech products. We’re all trying to solve the same problem.”

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

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Its 2020 summer conference, originally scheduled for May, convened virtually—but not without losing substantial revenue that it normally generated from its in-person event. Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors.

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States bet big on career education, but struggle to show it works

The Hechinger Report

Related: How career and technical education shuts out Black and Latino students from high-paying professions Yet nearly a decade since starting the overhaul, the state still hasn’t shown that CTE gives students a career boost. Education Department spokeswoman said — despite a law requiring states to report students’ post-CTE outcomes.

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4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

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Even without a pandemic, Instructure faced a transformative 2020. One of the benefits of this change is a focus on long-term planning over displays of quarterly growth to impress shareholders, says Mitch Benson, the company’s chief product officer. So what else is next for the Salt Lake City-based edtech company?

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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks

The Hechinger Report

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. Our students deserve that.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

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The district serves an economically-disadvantaged community with about 80 percent of the students eligible to participate in the free and reduced-price meal program. HCISD teachers quickly saw positive changes in how students were building math skills. The company was sold to Jostens, Inc.

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