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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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ReachOut provides help to both students as well as concerned parents in a variety of different languages. Amazon Lex, a fully managed artificial intelligence (AI) service with advanced natural language models, enables conversations to be translated between 75 languages using chatbots.

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

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and handles the backend video transcoding and hosting needs for several state and local government agencies, not for profits, and corporate entities. The MyVRSpot solution is currently used by more than 700 school districts throughout the U.S. For more information about MyVRSpot, visit www.myvrspot.com. About ParentSquare.

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

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These days, programming languages are accessible enough for pretty much anybody willing to do the work,” said Roger Kay, a longtime technology industry analyst. Wong said he wrestled with “not knowing how to speak the language right away,” adding that it took time for him to get the jargon, such as “user experience” or “development sprint.”

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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 This Teacher Brings Census Data to Life in the Classroom

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The census helps companies plan where to create jobs; local governments plan where to build roads, schools, and hospitals; and finally helps students and organizations that research the numbers bring awareness to issues and possible solutions. What I appreciate most is, we're not just talking about language at home.

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

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Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. percent of students met proficiency targets on math and English language arts exams during the 2016-17 school year and only 8.38

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How to Teach Cyber Safety in Kindergarten

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Digital literacy is a new language almost, and they are learning it at younger and younger ages,” Pike says. 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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