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A total of 501 full-time virtual schools now enroll more than 297,000 students, 79 percent of whom are in charters, according to the National Education Policy Center. from Digital Education - Education Week http://bit.ly/2WhAT1u

The New York State Education Department has put the brakes on a school district's planned trial run of new facial recognition software aimed at improving school safety. from Digital Education - Education Week http://bit.ly/2W2uK4n

University collaborates with Preservica to create new online archive of historic print, photographic and audio-visual material as part of development of new Cultural Collections Centre.Oxford, UK and Boston, MA May 30th, 2019. Preservica, market leaders in active digital preservation, has announced that the University of Bristol will use its Enterprise Private Cloud (EPC) digital preservation platform to safeguard over 50 TBs of unique cultural records. The University of Bristol holds two extensive historic collections -... Source: RealWire from education-higher education feed from realwire http://bit.ly/2ECLtFJ

Public school student? Private school? And where did they send their kids? Here’s a rundown of the K-12 careers of those in the race for the White House. from Education Week: Homeschooling http://bit.ly/2VWUWO0

Teenagers are more than twice as likely as their parents to sleep with their devices in the bed with them, according to a report by Common Sense Media. from Digital Education - Education Week http://bit.ly/2EDHXLe

We must give students the power to explore and share their stories and broadcast them, record them, so we don't unfairly distort the truth of who they or we are. from The Intersection: Culture and Race in Schools http://bit.ly/30PjPyx

Researchers found a negative association between taking online courses, primarily for credit recovery, and performance on districtwide standardized tests. from Digital Education - Education Week http://bit.ly/2VVNemY

A new study that sought to examine learning conditions across the country for long-term English-learners found that 1 in 5 of the students are highly mobile, and may not have access to consistent language support as a result. from Education Week: English Language Learners http://bit.ly/2XbhtYw

Employers are putting a premium on soft-skills—like attention to detail—that aren't always easy to capture or measure. from Digital Education - Education Week http://bit.ly/2Yzbjlw

It's on educators to consciously choose to work on our implicit and explicit biases to start undoing the systemic oppression that has led us here. In doing so, we can help our students hopefully create a world much more loving, inclusive, and safe than the one we've created for them now. from The Intersection: Culture and Race in Schools http://bit.ly/2JOYnDS

In response to the mounting financial pressures facing many of the UK’s independent schools, as a result of a challenging admissions environment, William Clarence Education launched a new division this month – William Clarence School Services (WCSS) - to support senior leaders responsible for marketing and student recruitment.Writing in William Clarence’s new magazine Independent School Admissions Plus, Andrew Fleck, Principal of Sedbergh School, notes the challenges which school admissions teams are facing across the country... Source: RealWire from education-secondary education feed from realwire http://bit.ly/2LYiCBJ

from Education Week: Homeschooling http://bit.ly/2w8R9Td

In response to the mounting financial pressures facing many of the UK’s independent schools, as a result of a challenging admissions environment, William Clarence Education launched a new division this month – William Clarence School Services (WCSS) - to support senior leaders responsible for marketing and student recruitment.Writing in William Clarence’s new magazine Independent School Admissions Plus, Andrew Fleck, Principal of Sedbergh School, notes the challenges which school admissions teams are facing across the country... Source: RealWire from education-higher education feed from realwire http://bit.ly/2LYiCBJ

We study literature in order to help our students, the future generations, develop their values and morals and better understand the world. from The Intersection: Culture and Race in Schools http://bit.ly/2VyOQDg

Evan Marwell, the founder and CEO of EducationSuperHighway, spells out why school internet connectivity is "mission accomplished," what still needs to be done in education technology, and how to push big changes in K-12. from Digital Education - Education Week http://bit.ly/2HltZzu

Writing on the importance of bursaries in the recently launched Independent School Admissions Plus magazine, David Goodhew, Headmaster of Latymer Upper School, says that ‘few things can compare with the opportunity to transform a young-person’s life chances’. In this new piece, Goodhew argues that the OECD’s latest report on social mobility proves the benefit which disadvantaged pupils in receipt of bursaries gain when they attend ‘advantaged’ independent schools and suggests that a diverse student body... Source: RealWire from education-higher education feed from realwire http://bit.ly/2E9EOCs

A couple of decades in, although challenges persist, charters show no signs of disappearing. Why hasn't the idea of chartering schools been a passing fad? from Education Week: Entrepreneurship http://bit.ly/2vRGxrI

Researchers at the University of Montreal are partnering with an education technology company to see if Artificial Intelligence can predict student engagement. from Digital Education - Education Week http://bit.ly/2PQVfsk

The Every Student Succeeds Act could lead administrators in traditional high schools to turn away older English-learner students who may need additional time to earn their high school diplomas, a new report from the Migration Policy Institute argues. from Education Week: English Language Learners http://bit.ly/2ZRYsfz

The Managing Director of the leading London Education Consultancy made a new statement this week concerning some of the headwinds facing independent institutions in the UK and pledged to be part of the solution.Changes in economic policy, changes in government, rising fees, loss of jobs; just some of the challenges that are set to batter the UK’s increasingly-vulnerable independent school sector in the coming months and years. Figures from the Independent Schools Council (ISC) reveal... Source: RealWire from education-secondary education feed from realwire http://bit.ly/2JaQR5Z