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The article discusses the encouraging performance of U.S. 4th graders on a new version of the Progress International Reading Literacy Study known as ePIRLS, administered in 2016.

The article reports on the continuing lack of access to computers at home for students, according to a report from the American Institutes for Research.

The article discusses the reassignment of U.S. Department of Education chief privacy officer Kathleen Styles in favor of department chief privacy officer Angela Arrington.

The article discusses cybersecurity breaches that compromised the information of students and teachers at the state-administered online school the Florida Virtual School.

The article covers "The Promises, Challenges, and Futures of Media Literacy," a report from think tank Data and Society which found that the fragmented state of mass media has made media literacy education difficult.

The article discusses the efforts to expand computer science courses in U.S. K-12 (Kindergarten through 12th grade) schools, including former U.S. President Barack Obama's support for this. An overview U.S. National Science Foundation officer Janice Cuny's perspective role on the training of computer science teachers is provided.

The article discusses a virtual reality's (VR) classroom value and how virtual reality integration into K-12 system affect children's brain and development. Topics include ethical considerations around VR use with children, effective implementation, and questions about data-privacy protections. Comments from directors Julie Evans of Project Tomorrow, Ben Davis of Futuresource Consulting, and Trace Urdan from Tyton Partners are included.

The article discusses a closure of Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) online charter school in Ohio. It states that a reason for the closing allegedly is a lack of funding and student attendance.

The article discusses the release of the service Clever Goals by San Francisco, California, educational technology company Clever, which purports to track how students utilize technology in the classroom.

The article reports on the E-rate government program administered by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the Universal Service Administrative Company to help connect rural schools to fiber-optic Wi-Fi and broadband networks. Emphasis is given to topics such as delays in special-construction funding requests under the administration of President Donald Trump, the denial of funds for Daggett County, Utah, and the lack of federal assistance in closing the digital divide in New Mexico.

The article reports on the recommendations of the organization the Future of Privacy Forum with regard to U.S. school districts handling of electronic student records, particularly ensuring their security and de-identification. Topics addressed include how difficult it is for districts to separate personally identifying information from student data, questions regarding the extent to which districts should pursue this, and the requirements set by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

The article profiles the Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, focusing on the school's emphasis on innovation and educational technology. Topics covered include computer coding classes, the school's collaboration with the NuVu fabrication studio, and the work of robotics expert Zoz Brooks at the school.

The article examines the role of U.S. school chief technology officers in the curriculum of schools. Topics discussed include the collaborations between chief technology officers and chief academic officers (CAOs) on issues related to educational technology, technology officer Thuan Nguyen of the Kent, Washington school district, and the role of the U.S. Department of Education in encouraging technology and academic officers to collaborate.

The article presents a profile of Chief Technology Information Officer Lenny J. Schad and Superintendent Terry B. Grier of the Houston Independent School District of Houston, Texas, highlighting their work as an example of successful educational leadership. Topics addressed include their professional collaboration, their district's technological planning initiative, and a listing of several recommended principles to follow for leadership taken from their experience.

The article reports on advances in educational technology which have been made in early childhood education, including preschool, kindergarten and first grade, and discusses the challenges that are associated with ensuring that educational technology, including laptop computers, tablet computers, computer software and mobile device applications, are used correctly. Concerns which researchers and parents have about the use of educational technology are discussed.

The article discusses the announcement of the job training philanthropy Grow with Google by the search engine firm Google Inc.

The article states that the Ohio online charter school known as the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) was threatening to close as of October 2017 due to questions about its enrollment amid a dispute between the school and the Ohio education department over software-login records and subsequent withheld funds.

The article discusses situations facing U.S. school districts whose accounts on the social media website Twitter were hacked and used to post racist and other inappropriate messages. Topics include cyber-security practices needed to prevent account hacking, problems with accessing support services from the firm Twitter Inc., and student discipline related to students sharing the unauthorized content that was posted.

Emma Yang is a remarkable coder with vision, people skills, and high-powered mentors. But her extraordinary education shows just how far we are from ensuring that most students will thrive in the jobs of tomorrow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos investments in the Neurocore company, that are under investigation for company's advertising claims about its treatments for autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and memory loss.

The article reports that the Ohio state board of education has voted to require the online charter school Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) to repay state aid funding.

The article reports that the nonprofit organizations Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) are jointly funding a grant to the organization New Profit for research on personalized learning. Topics include the lack of evidence supporting personalized learning, the funding of social entrepreneurship efforts at New Profit by the same foundations, and comments from political scientist Sarah Reckhow on problems with philanthropic support for education research.

The article states that over 100 U.S. school districts received notices questioning plans for the construction of fiber-optic networks with the help of E-rate funds, the U.S. government program that assists in the subsidization of telecommunications services for U.S. public schools and libraries. According to the article, the letters were sent by the group the Universal Service Administrative Co. (USAC), which administers the program for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

The article discusses an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to improve U.S. cyber security, including a review of related education and workforce-development efforts.

The article discusses algorithm-driven systems in the school curriculum and mentions the approach to algorithms and personalized learning in schools. Topics discussed include views of Constance Yowell, the chief executive officer of the organization Collective Shift, on the same, Collective Shift's project LRNG being provided to students to build their own interests and connected learning movement focused on out-of-school and informal learning opportunities.

The article presents a report by the research center Data & Society in mid-February 2017, which showed that the sudden rise and immediate demise of the nonprofit student-data-management program inBloom reflected the various ways in which education technology and educational data use are viewed. The program, which was shuttered in April 2014, was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corp. of New York.

The article announces that President Donald Trump has appointed Ajit Pai, a critic of "net neutrality," to chair the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S.

The article looks at the availability of high-speed broadband internet connections in U.S. public schools. It cites the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's internet connectivity goal for schools and reports on the increase in the share of school districts meeting that goal. It discusses the U.S. government's E-rate program which subsidizes school and library telecommunication services and notes that inadequate connectivity is still a problem especially in some rural areas.

The article reports that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has sued internet services provider Google over allegations the company's policies on online tracking of students are unclear while Google has stated a commitment to student-data privacy.

The article focuses on a study in Australian schools which found that infant simulator programs aimed to prevent teenage pregnancy may have the opposite effect.

The article discusses a controversy regarding an action by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's School Reform Commission (SRC) to cancel its contract with the labor union Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT). Topics include education funding problems in Philadelphia, the implications of the move for U.S. public-sector labor unions, and comments by researcher Daniel R. DiSalvo of the think tank Manhattan Institute. INSET: UNIONS ON THE DEFENSIVE.

The article reports on the ideological conflict between moves to promote innovations in educational technology and concerns over student privacy. Focus is given to initiatives seeking to implement personalized learning methods with digital student profiles. Concerns against the move by student privacy advocates are then listed alongside responses by industry leaders seeking to move ahead with the project.

The article reports the findings of the study "The New Literacies of Online Research and Comprehension: Rethinking the Reading Achievement Gap" conducted by Donald J. Leu of the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. Topics discussed include the report's findings regarding the link between family income and student online reading achievement, the use of the Internet in education, and the importance of digital literacy.

The article discusses the sharing of school data between learning management systems (LMSs), gradebooks, and other school software platforms. Topics include interoperability with regard to information on student assessment, conflicts between educational software vendors, and the use of LMSs to organize student data. INSET: HOW SOFTWARE SYSTEMS TALK TO EACH OTHER.

The article discusses the possible conflicts of interest in the Los Angeles, California Unified School District's (LAUSD) partnership initiative to provide students with iPad tablet computers from technology company Apple, Inc. Topics discussed include the decision made by LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy to restart the bid process for the tablets, the involvement of education company Pearson in the plan, and the planned use of the tablets to prepare for the Common Core State Standards.

The article examines the Oculus Rift, a virtual-reality headset created by the startup company Oculus VR, and focuses on how the technology could be adapted for educational purposes. Noted possible applications include virtual field trips, immersive digital learning games, and therapeutic services for students with special needs. The acquisition of Oculus VR by online social network provider Facebook, Inc. is also covered.

The article discusses digital instructional content, which has become the most profitable aspect of the U.S. educational technology market as more schools look to integrate multimedia material into classroom activities. Particular attention is given to the Glen Rose Intermediate School in Texas, led by Principal Lauren Mapes, which began using the digital teaching platform Time to Know from McGraw-Hill Education in 2012-2013 to provided additional lessons, readings, and content.

The article examines how the James G. Blaine Elementary school in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, led by principal Gianeen C. Powell, used a $1.5 million grant in 2013 to reform its instructional model and focuses on Powell's collaboration with the city's Science Leadership Academy (SLA).

The article examines how a funding shortage for school districts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania could prevent Superintendent William R. Hite, Jr. from opening schools in September 2014 as well as expanding the experimental Science Leadership Academy (SLA) model. It looks at how the situation supports arguments that large urban districts are not suited to bring innovative educational models to scale.

The article discusses research conducted by professor Valerie J. Shute of Florida State University in Tallahassee on the use of video games to perform stealth assessments of students' social and emotional skills. Topics include Shute's stealth assessment methodology, the digital game "Newton's Playground," and the obstacles of using video games as an assessment tool. Commentary from associate professor Kurt Squire of the University of Wisconsin is provided on the importance of persistence for success in video games and real world situations.

The article provides information originally published on the publication's website regarding a 2014 report from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and EducationSuperHighway on the funding necessary to provide high-speed wireless Internet to all U.S. students.

The article discusses challenges faced by U.S. teachers who want to use educational software programs in the classroom but their students can't remember their usernames and passwords. Topics discussed include the use of single sign-on (SSO), the loss of instruction time teachers are experiencing, and privacy concerns about student data access.

The article provides information originally published on the publication's website regarding a 2014 report by child-advocacy nonprofit organization Common Sense Media, which claims that the reading habits of children are negatively affected by digital technology.

The article discusses the use of geovisual software and geographic-information systems (GIS) by U.S. school systems. Topics discussed include the use of the software to aid in decision-making, the impact of the software on student transportation, and the use of GIS mapping software from software company Esri.

The article discusses how high school teachers in Pennsylvania's Radnor Township district are being trained to help students transfer print-based reading strategies to electronic-reading (e-reading) when they are issued iPad tablet computers.

The article discusses the efforts of U.S. schools to deal with the privacy issues surrounding student-data collection that is often stored in Internet clouds. Topics discussed include the efforts of the Houston Independent School District in Houston, Texas to alert parents to what student information is collected online, and the opinion of Brad Jefferson, chief executive officer (CEO) of Animoto, a company that partners with schools to turn slides and photos into videos.

The article presents information on the use of digital simulations for student assessment in U.S. education. The author looks at the U.S. National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, & Student Testing (CRESST), the computer game SimCityEDU by the publishing company Pearson, and the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics.

The article discusses the South by Southwest (SXSW) education conference held in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. Topics addressed include panel discussions on the role of the Internet, big data, and digital technologies in the future of education; a discussion of student-data privacy concerns in the Jefferson County, Colorado school district; and the presence of educational technology (ed-tech) companies at the conference.

The article reports on the February 2014 release of the U.S. Department of Education's guidance on student-data privacy and remarks made by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at a summit meeting on the issue. Topics discussed include impending state and federal legislation on the issue, the learning opportunities made possible by digital learning tools and the information they generate, and the concerns of privacy advocates that student-privacy rights are in danger.