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Gaggle and AWS Collaborate to Create Mental Health Hotline that Connects K-12 Students to Trained Crisis Counselors, Anywhere, Anytime

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We’re excited to work with AWS to provide convenient access to our mental health hotline to thousands of students nationwide,” said Jeff Patterson, CEO of Gaggle. “We The new program will be rolled out to Gaggle customers beginning this fall.

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ParentSquare Partners with MyVRSpot to Enhance Video Messaging to K-12 School-Home Engagement Platform

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With ParentSquare’s vast accessibility features already increasing engagement and equity, the partnership with MyVRSpot will ensure an additional medium for school-home communications is available for users.”. I have so many ideas on how we can use this enhanced resource to humanize our communications approach. About ParentSquare.

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Dear Liberal Arts Major: STEM Companies Need Your Skills to Grow

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But instead of a classroom, Wolochow now works on the Silicon Valley campus of a company that’s using technology to make learning more accessible to people throughout the world. These days, programming languages are accessible enough for pretty much anybody willing to do the work,” said Roger Kay, a longtime technology industry analyst.

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Aspen Institute’s Newest Ascend Fellows Represent a Tightening Focus on Early Childhood

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Rucker taught in the classroom for a couple of years, then joined the city of Baltimore as its Head Start coordinator, launching her career at the intersection of early childhood and local government. The local level is where the rubber meets the road. But the local level is where the rubber meets the road.

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How Transparent is School Data When Parents Can’t Find or Understand it?

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Several parents with children in low-performing schools view a child’s academic struggles as an individual responsibility — their child’s fault, or their own — but access to and understanding of school data can help them identify broader problems. For example, is only their child reading below grade-level or are a majority of the students?

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The Pandemic Released a Stream of Money for Broadband. Will That Advance Digital Equity?

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For the last few years, the local government — with schools, the telecommunications company EPB of Chattanooga, and nonprofits — has run “HCS EdConnect,” a program through which schools give Chromebooks, tablets and free training on the skills needed to use smart technology and the modern internet system. Those resources seem to work.

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Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education

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It is responsible for overseeing federal funding for schools, enforcing federal laws in education, and ensuring equal access for students across the country. Critics argue that education is best managed by state and local governments because they are closer to the specific needs of their communities. Federal programs (i.e.,