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Impero Software Announces New Version of its Flagship Product ? Impero Education Pro ? at ISTE 2018

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Chicago, June 24, 2018 – Impero Software, a leading provider of classroom management, network and online safety software to schools today announced the latest version of its award-winning product, Impero Education Pro V7. It partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits.

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With a degree no longer enough, job candidates are told to prove their skills in tests

The Hechinger Report

said Steve Yadzinski, who works on innovations in workforce technology for Jobs for the Future — an advocacy group that makes its own job finalists take on work-related projects as a part of the decision process. Credit: Emma Harris for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Emma Harris for The Hechinger Report.

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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

Effective Advocacy. The problem with the main earlier label, “free software,” was not its political connotations, but that—to newcomers—its seeming focus on price is distracting. Christine and others who advocated for the new phrase “open source software” were prescient in doing so.

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Internet Safety Labs Advances Mobile App Safety for K-12 Students, Families and Educators with New App Microscope

eSchool News

SAN DIEGO (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Internet Safety Labs , a non-profit organization dedicated to independent software product safety testing, today announced a big leap forward to help ensure mobile app safety for K-12 students, families and educators with the introduction of the App Microscope. Try Out the App Microscope, It’s Free!

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An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

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Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. Teenagers come to the lab to develop their own projects under the tutelage of Google employees and Code Next’s academic coaches.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

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Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The application is free to download from the App Store or Google Play.

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Which Apps Are Safe for Kids? Three Tools That Read the Fine Print for You

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Common Sense Privacy Evaluations Common Sense, a nonprofit education and advocacy organization, maintains a database that evaluates edtech tools on whether they are safe for use in schools. In the case of ClassDojo, a relatively harmless example, data goes back to the company and to Google Crashlytics.

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