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Here’s How Modern Data Management Platforms Help K-12 Schools Get Work Done

EdTech Magazine

“School systems are swimming in valuable data that potentially could be used to support students,” says Susan Bearden, former director of digital programs for InnovateEDU, a nonprofit educational organization that is home to the data advocacy group Project Unicorn.

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Excite, expand, equitize: Using data to support reading

eSchool News

Our overall objective was to expand access to literacy and use real-world data in curating and individualizing collections to better serve the needs of the district’s highly diverse student population. Providing impactful data on student reading habits. We also work as a department to analyze the data and make purchasing decisions.

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After Recent High-Profile Data Breaches, Illuminate Education Quietly Gets Acquired

Edsurge

There’s been a lot of consolidation in edtech since the pandemic, with players like Renaissance making big moves, says Anna Edwards, chief advocacy officer and cofounder of Whiteboard Advisors. Data Breach The deal's low-key announcement may be connected to Illuminate’s recent high-profile failures when it comes to protecting student data.

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New Advocacy Campaign Calls for Banning Facial Recognition on College Campuses.

Edsurge

Indeed, last week saw the launch of “ Ban Facial Recognition on Campus ,” a nationwide campaign from the nonprofit advocacy organizations Fight for the Future and Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Once you create these massive databases of biometric data, they’re always going to be a target,” Darragh says.

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School Districts Are Being Held For Ransom Over Data. Are Solutions On The Way?

Edsurge

But it’s not just schools themselves who are easy targets: Hackers have hit the edtech vendors that schools work with as well, most notably Illuminate Education, where a breach earlier this year exposed the data of millions of students across the country. Agencies being required to talk to each other more, and share data.

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PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says

The Hechinger Report

Attendance Works based its “alarming” estimate on 2021-22 attendance data it has from four states where chronic absenteeism doubled from pre-pandemic levels: California, Connecticut, Ohio and Virginia. It may be a full year before we will have national data on student absences during 2021-22 from the U.S. 27, 2022 blog post.

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New Partnership Provides Texas Educators Easy Access to Critical Data

eSchool News

As a part of this initiative, MAP Growth data will transfer seamlessly into DMAC , enhancing this valuable tool used by Texas educators by providing quicker access to student data that supports instruction and student achievement. This allows for more time with students and less time planning, testing, grading, and disaggregating data.