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Edtech gone rogue? Tackling “Dirty Stream” attacks amidst uncontrolled app overloads

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This means establishing alerts and working towards regular device audits, patch testing, and rollback strategies. As the window between identifying and exploiting a vulnerability narrows, educational institutions need to come terms with good patch management habits. Encouragingly, there is already a head start.

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Hackers don’t take a summer vacation–neither can school cybersecurity

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Good patch management starts by setting a strategy for implementation, like establishing alerts and leveraging unified consoles, and working towards regular device audits, patch testing, and rollback plans. A summer test education can’t afford to fail Schools can’t tackle this challenge alone. Finally, get serious about access.

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A Lockdown Abroad Disrupts Testing at Home

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Students who were expecting to take online tests proctored by Examity received a notice that the service had been temporarily suspended. Consequently, test-takers will not be able to access their proctoring appointments today.” Effective immediately, 3/22/2020, all testing via EXAMITY in India has been halted at this time.

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10 of the best and worst school systems

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Public elementary and secondary education dollars traditionally flow from three sources: the federal, state (state governments contributing nearly half of public-school funding) and local governments. The data set ranges from pupil-teacher ratio to dropout rate to median standardized-test scores. Massachusetts.

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

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” Educators that participated in the initial pilot testing with ParentSquare and MyVRSpot are eager to begin implementing this new video capability school- and district-wide. and handles the backend video transcoding and hosting needs for several state and local government agencies, not for profits, and corporate entities.

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Districts put DEI into action

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This is a community problem that our local government should be investing in. In my opinion, we need to absolutely do away with standardized testing–its a waste of time; all were doing is teaching a kid whether they can or cannot take a test and most students walk away feeling that they failed.

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DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable

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This is a community problem that our local government should be investing in. In my opinion, we need to absolutely do away with standardized testing–it’s a waste of time; all we’re doing is teaching a kid whether they can or cannot take a test and most students walk away feeling that they failed.

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