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Micro-credentials and COVID-19: Supporting Professional Learning When Schools are Closed

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When Digital Promise first began building our micro-credential ecosystem more than six years ago, it was with a commitment to equity and access to professional learning opportunities for all educators. We recognize that while educators adapt to new realities, they remain dedicated to their students’ well-being and learning.

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From High School to Harvard, Students Urge for Clarity on Privacy Rights

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Chad Marlow, ACLU Counsel According to the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), a Washington, D.C.-based based nonprofit, states have passed approximately 110 laws since 2013 concerning student data privacy. But what happens in these legislative halls are rarely visible to teachers, students and parents.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Virginia circuit court on Thursday ruled against a George Mason University student group seeking access to donor agreements between a university foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation.” Now the school will pay her $250K and she’ll help improve its response to campus sexual assault.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes -- think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. ” One of the professors on the list responds on Facebook. “ Will Trump care about student data privacy?