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Hiring Successful Teachers—Two New Studies Point to What Works and What Doesn't

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But two recent studies shed light on teacher hiring practices, what works and what doesn’t. In fact, over the past two decades, the production of graduates from teacher education programs in the U.S. The fact that there are only two studies that fully analyze the application process points to a gap, however.

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How to measure edtech impact in the ESSA era

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The Education Technology Industry Network (ETIN) and Empirical Education Inc. Districts are more frequently asking for their own student and teacher product usage data to perform their own studies. Then, look at a correlational study, run a comparison study, and run a randomized experiment. K-12 Schools.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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There are plenty of things students complain about, but no other educational technology has drawn as much organized protest in recent months. You’re taking money away from education and giving it to surveillance companies,” Parry says of colleges who buy Proctorio and other services. Yet they are quickly becoming mainstream.

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This $90M Education Research Project Is Banking on Data Privacy to Drive Insights

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In a normal situation, you end up taking data from learning websites and apps and giving it to researchers for them to study and for them to analyze it to learn from,” JP Slavinsky, SafeInsights executive director and OpenStax technical director, says. A lot of the studies are about freshman college kids, right?

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As Child Care Challenges Threaten the American Workforce, Business Leaders Call for Action

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A 2019 ReadyNation study on the child care crisis found an annual economic cost of $57 billion in lost earnings, productivity and revenue as a result of the infant-and-toddler child care crisis.

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From High School to Harvard, Students Urge for Clarity on Privacy Rights

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Earlier this month, ACLU’s Rhode Island chapter released a scathing report, “ High School Non-Confidential Report: How School-Loaned Computers May Be Peering Into Your Home ,” that blasted the lack of safeguards to protect students’ privacy.

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Students Create a Pop-Up Makerspace at a Domestic Violence Shelter

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This year, a seventh grade English class designed games to highlight the theme in “The Giver” and a second grade class built gingerbread models of Chicago landmarks for an interdisciplinary math and social studies unit. Logistics for these mobile events can be complex.

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