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Teaching tricks: Better data strategies to ease teacher workload

Neo LMS

In the UK the National Union of Teachers surveyed over 16,000 teachers and found: 90% of teachers said they had considered giving up teaching during the last two years because of the workload. In the United States the AFT (American Federation of Teachers) surveyed 830 of its members across a broad range of quality of work-life topics.

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Why the State of Surveillance in Schools Might Lead to the Next Equifax Disaster

Edsurge

Blaine scans his ID and enters the classroom. Other similar technologies include Kickboard and LiveSchool. And cameras have moved from hallways to classrooms, with technology and security companies actively marketing them to schools. They hope that technology can offer the classroom insights and data that humans cannot capture.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

John Bel Edwards has agreed to a mandate that cursive writing must be taught in Louisiana ’s public school classrooms.” ” “ Kickboard Looking for New CEO,” Edsurge reports. “ ALEX Wants to Fill Classrooms Like Airbnb Fills Beds ” is an actual headline, and apparently ALEX is an actual startup.