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Is This Video App Safe? Mozilla Privacy Report Offers a Look

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She is the vice president of advocacy and engagement at the Mozilla Foundation, which today released a new report examining the privacy and security policies of 15 commonly used video-conferencing apps. Others cater to specific industries, such as Discord, which is often used in gaming. It’s a problem that involves tradeoffs.

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What’s in Your Name? The Importance of Branding for Recruitment in Edtech

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There’s a general assumption that all companies have two separate audiences—namely, the customers and the potential hires—and that their branding should cater to each group distinctly. It’s an opportunity for self-reflection: a chance to drill down on your values and evaluate your strengths, then determine how to build upon them.

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

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Between the barbeque and baristas, the dive bars and dueling pianos, thousands of educators, along with entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers across the education industry, will descend on Austin, Texas, during the first week of March for SXSW EDU. Speakers from the U.S.

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As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college

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It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. With worker shortages hitting industries nationwide, their companies — and many states’ economies — depend on it. “No

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The school counselor pipeline is broken. Can new federal money fix it?

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Related: A surprising remedy for teens in mental health crises At lunchtime, Bennett hurries to the cafeteria to collect four rambunctious fifth grade boys for a skills group. The group starts with a silly song about being a “whole body listener,” drawing or coloring what they hear or think as they listen. “I Since December, the U.S.

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Some colleges and universities are bringing the classroom to the workplace

The Hechinger Report

Frank Pauze, the Castleton-Killington coordinator, said the success rate is so high because the 30 students in the program are exposed every day to the work they’re learning in the classroom how to do. When they apply for jobs, said Johnston, graduates can say, “ ‘I know how to do this. It’s engaging.”. Same thing here.”.

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

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Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. They received large donations from tech companies aiming to diversify the industry.

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