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Read a new e-book, Making the Grade: End-to-End Security in Education, to learn how schools can implement end-to-end security solutions that will keep networks, endpoints and physical environments protected and secure. Read more>>
Children with unique learning needs excel when their interests and skills drive specialized instruction that is delivered via assistive technology in an engaging and sensitive environment. Read more>>
South Florida Sun Sentinel
The father of a student shot and killed during the Parkland school massacre has been appointed to the state Board of Education. An advocate for school safety, 52-year-old Andy Pollack is seeking accountability as well as better pay for teachers and close scrutiny of how money for schools is spent. Read more>>
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights will investigate allegations that a public school system in Montana discriminated against Native American students, according to its recent letter responding to the complaint. The complaint alleges that discrimination included dozens of instances of bullying, racial slurs and disproportionate discipline of students who are not white. Read more>>
State Schools Superintendent Steve Paine supports a one-time pay incentive for educators who aren’t certified to teach math, but are teaching it anyway, to increase their math education skills, and for elementary school teachers to also improve their math pedagogy. Last school year, only about 37 percent of tested public school students scored as at least “proficient” in math, and the proficiency percentage for high school juniors was only 29 percent. Read more>>
The Kentucky Department of Education has released a K3 Dyslexia Toolkit that provides educators and families with a resource to help meet learning needs of students with dyslexia, or those who display characteristics of dyslexia. This 20-page document comes in response to the Ready to Read Act, which directed KDE to develop and share a toolkit that school districts and educators can use to help serve students with dyslexia. Read more>>
When the North Carolina General Assembly reconvenes on January 9, seventh-grade English teacher Justin Parmenter wants legislators to consider these five ways to improve education in the state this year: Restore teaching assistants, provide trauma-informed training, overhaul school report cards, reinstate the charter cap and pay teachers well. Read more>>
The San Francisco Chronicle
Gavin Newsom, who’s being sworn in as California’s 40th governor today, is delivering on campaign promises, proposing nearly $2 billion in spending on early education and childcare programs in his first state budget proposal. An overview plan shared with The Chronicle includes $750 million for schools to implement full-day kindergarten programs and $747 million to subsidize childcare facilities and to help train childcare workers. Read more>>
The new line of mobile green screens is designed for content creators to capture, edit and produce content seamlessly. In addition, Valera Screens has a program to encourage artistic freedom and creativity in the classroom by partnering with K12 schools to provide free green screens. Read more>>
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