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The importance of social studies and information literacy

Dangerously Irrelevant

suburbs and whose parents worked for the federal government, today’s events have been… challenging. I think that what I will say here is: Policymakers, you know how you’ve minimized the importance of history, government, and civics in all of your education reform efforts over the past couple of decades? Related Posts.

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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks

The Hechinger Report

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. Attacks by cyber criminals were rare, the GAO found.

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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

TeachThought

Other possibilities: Left Column/Right Column: Inventors/Inventions; Forms of Government/Strengths and Weaknesses, Geometric Shape/Formula to calculate area; etc. In a short answer, the responder must answer the prompt without the benefit of any additional information or possible answers.

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It's Not a Technology Issue

A Principal's Reflections

Perception and lack of information influence the decision making process. Students do this all the time when dictator-like policies and rules govern technology use. Technology still gets a bad rap in many education circles. Obviously kids can use technology to do this now as well. The behavior argument that many make is flawed.

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Many ‘informal’ child care providers are entitled to pay. Most don’t know it

The Hechinger Report

Between a third and a half of all children under the age of five receive informal care from a family member, friend or neighbor, making it the most common child care arrangement for this age group outside of parental care. In California about one in four of informal caregivers go unpaid, the Early Edge report noted.

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What Constitutes Good PD?

A Principal's Reflections

The trainings that many educators are now forced to attend are usually driven by whatever the federal and state governments have mandated. The dominating structure fulfills the goal of pumping as much information as possible into our heads, yet fails to inspire change. Each is hyperlinked to additional information.

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BYOD Begins With Trust and Respect

A Principal's Reflections

This information was then passed on to Ron and each student that filled out the form was granted access. Speaking of Ron, he just informed me that we had 460 unique devices connect to our guest Internet network yesterday (535 for the week) at my school. I can''t thank Ron enough for putting students first!