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FERPA Compliance in the Digital Age: What K–12 Schools Need to Know

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Erin Cunningham is a writer and editor based in Maryland with experience writing about state and local government, education, technology and more. by Erin Cunningham.

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What Will Schools Do in the Fall? Here Are 4 Possible Scenarios

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The spectrum of crisis distance learning ranged from ‘drive-by’ course material pickups to telephone check-ins to haphazard online lesson plans and ad-hoc video conferences, all of which can be considered a low-fidelity migration to support continuity,” the authors write. Below are summaries of the four scenarios the authors lay out.

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How to Teach Cyber Safety in Kindergarten

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Erin Cunningham is a writer and editor based in Maryland with experience writing about state and local government, education, technology and more. “Digital literacy is a new language almost, and they are learning it at younger and younger ages,” Pike says. by Erin Cunningham.

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When School Districts Buy From Amazon, Are They Getting the Best Deal? Maybe Not.

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Communities, a cooperative purchasing program for local governments and school districts, with the option to renew for three additional two year periods. The contract covers office and classroom supplies as well as library books, technology and more. The report authors write that U.S.

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Can ‘Linguistic Fingerprinting’ Guard Against AI Cheating?

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It’s called “linguistic fingerprinting,” where linguistic techniques are used to determine whether a text has been written by a specific person based on analysis of their previous writings. He’s an English teacher at Benedictine Military School in Savannah, Georgia, and he also writes a newsletter about the issues AI raises in education.

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A Playbook for Getting Millions of Unconnected Households Online

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Any family with a child receiving free or reduced-price lunch can ask the school to write a letter confirming as much, proving that they qualify for the ACP discounts. We need state and local governments to step up, and state and local governments are stepping up. But they also play a more practical part.

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What It Means to Live in a Digitally Connected World: A Tale of Two Teenagers

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It's way more interesting than just writing about Homer’s The Odyssey. Federal, state and local government funding and policy are required to help design the needle that we move, but the colloquial “third sector” provides the forward thrust. She barely submitted the essay that was due in English class. It was cool that Ms.

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