The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2019 Year in Review
Cross-posted at the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center: https://k12cybersecure.com. According to a report released today by the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center, The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2019 […]
The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2018 Year in Review
Cross-posted at the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center: https://k12cybersecure.com. Public schools are relying on technology for teaching, learning, and school operations like never before. Yet, with the […]
Scholastic Makes Misleading Privacy, Security Claims in Services Directed to Children
The Scholastic Corporation was founded in 1920. Across the United States, kids and families regularly come into contact with Scholastic marketing and sales within public […]
2017 NAEP: Exploring the “Homework Gap” in Math Performance
Given the vast amount of data that the US Department of Education released today regarding student academic performance in math and reading, it will take […]
In the News: On School Website Security, Privacy Practices
In the three weeks since “Tracking: EDU” officially launched, a growing number of news outlets, associations, and organizations have highlighted the findings and significance of […]
School Websites are Bad, Just Not How You Think
New Study of School Websites Reveals Widespread Online Security and Privacy Issues According to a new study released today by EdTech Strategies, Tracking: EDU – Education Agency Website […]
Ad Tracking and Education
Tracking users for the purpose of targeted advertising is the dominant business model of the the web as we know it. In exchange for free […]
The Reason for a Hiatus
Loyal readers may notice that the weekly round-up of news stories and commentary – A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News – has been on […]
The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning
I have been critical of the treatment of technology in both the 2015 and 2016 Education Next back-to-school polls for a variety of reasons. Credit […]
Why Do Students in Personalized Learning Programs Feel Less Positive About School?
Students in schools implementing personalized learning - by virtue of a receiving a Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) grant - are less likely to report […]
There Can Be No Privacy without Security
If there is an Achilles' heel to a future of robust personalized learning for all K-12 students, it is the uneven attention to the cybersecurity […]
Archived: E‐rate Modernization Progress Report (Jan 2017)
On February 3, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rescinded a report issued two weeks earlier that examined the progress of E‐rate since the modernization orders of […]
