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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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When we rolled out our classroom tech demos, parents were pulling me aside, saying how much these programs (Read180, System 44, iRead, Math180) would have helped, how they wished they had this tech as kids. They use the Blackboard platform to communicate with professors and engage fellow students in their courses. Now they do.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut student data privacy laws.” ” In fact, Axios suggests that Google might have staged the demo it gave of its new voice assistant. Via Wired : “Congress, Privacy Groups Question Amazon’s Echo Dot for Kids.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Students would be required to pay. Students, no surprise, weren’t thrilled by the idea.).

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