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This story was reported by Beatriz Alvarado, Thyrie Bland, Jason Gonzales, Leigh Guidry, Rick Hampson, Bracey Harris, Lori Higgins, Joe Hong, Austin Humphreys, Kristen Inbody, Annysa Johnson, Byron McCauley, Amanda Oglesby, Kelly Ragan, Meg Ryan, Lindsay Schnell, Devi Shastri and Alden Woods and written by Hampson, USA TODAY Chapters I t’s shortly after dawn when Edward Lawson,  one of America’s 3.2 million public school teachers, pulls his car into the parking lot of Julian Thomas Elementary in Racine, Wisconsin. He cuts the engine, pulls out his cell phone and calls his principal. They begin to pray. Lawson is a full-time substitute based at a school with full-time problems: only one in 10 students are proficient in reading and math. That may be explained by the fact that 87 percent of the students are poor and one in five have a diagnosed disability. Blame for test scores, however, often settles on the people who are any scho...

28 16 3 1 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, shown at a press conference Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, is making bold education pronouncements in his first weeks on the job. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/TNS) 1262924 By Jeffrey S. Solochek Published Earlier Today Updated 6 hours ago OFF BOARD: Gov. Ron DeSantis withdraws two Florida Board of Education appointments that Rick Scott made just before leaving office. Broward County parent Andrew Pollack, whose daughter was killed in the 2018 Parkland high school shooting, says he anticipates being reappointed , WLRN reports. TAX CREDIT SCHOLARSHIPS: DeSantis announces during Martin Luther King Jr. Day festivities that he wants to fully fund Florida’s tax credit scholarship program so it has no waiting list , GateHouse Media reports. More from Florida Politics , WPLG . TEACHING VACANCIES: Volusia County schools feel the effects of not having enough full-time certified teachers in their classrooms, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. • Several...

Education Cybersecurity Weekly is a curated weekly news overview for those who are concerned about the Education industry. It provides brief summaries and links to articles and news across a spectrum of cybersecurity and technology topics that are specific to the industry. Yeah, Harry Potter will probably raise his eyebrows but computational thinking seems to have more useful features than any spells. Do you believe that a drone in a classroom is as common thing as a blackboard or a pencil case? Here is the evidence. Alohomora! Open students’ minds via computational thinking EdSurge on November 28, 2018 Yeah, Harry Potter will probably raise his eyebrows but computational thinking seems to have more useful features than any spells. Actually, computational thinking is a cross-disciplinary skill that can be applied in any subject (not just math or science). For instance, Franco Moretti, a literary scholar, described the use of social graphs ...

Education Cybersecurity Weekly is a curated weekly news overview for those who are concerned about the Education industry. It provides brief summaries and links to articles and news across a spectrum of cybersecurity and technology topics that are specific to the industry. If hackers played darts in the office, the dartboard on the inside of the door would be called “universities’ data”. While new GDPR rules strictly fine organizations if they do not take adequate steps to secure their systems, IT departments are trying to build an effective security policy for their institutions. The analytics-driven security platforms to fight against cyber threats on campuses EdScoop on January 21, 2019 If hackers played darts in the office, the dartboard on the inside of the door would be called “universities’ data”. Storing tremendous amount of personal data and annually connecting thousands of new devices, the campus network system is a matter of IT ...

Education Cybersecurity Weekly is a curated weekly news overview for those who are concerned about the Education industry. It provides brief summaries and links to articles and news across a spectrum of cybersecurity and technology topics that are specific to the industry. One hacker. Several months of the undiscovered data exposure. 500,000 students, whose personal information was compromised. How the [Grinch] hacker stole the data of 500,000 San Diego Unified students EdScoop on December 26, 2018 One hacker. Several months of the undiscovered data exposure. 500,000 students, whose personal information was compromised. Don Corleone would look doubtfully at someone telling him this news. Fortunately, you are not an influential Italian mafioso, so we do not need to prove that cybercrime nowadays is one of the powerful security threats. The San Diego Unified School District reported the data breach affecting nearly half a million current an...

On a Southern swing, men’s basketball team meets former President Carter and visits Martin Luther King Jr.’s church and gravesite By Juan Siliezar Harvard Staff Writer Date January 17, 2019 Share Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn When Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker saw his team’s schedule over the semester break and realized they had a day off in Atlanta, he quickly decided to make it count. That’s how, after a hard-fought win, Crimson basketball players found themselves shaking hands with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and touring some of Atlanta’s historic Civil Rights sites, including the Ebenezer Baptist Church where Martin Luther King Jr. was co-pastor with his father. The experience, while exciting and humbling for players, is part of a larger, more important effort by their coach to educate them beyond the basketball court. “That’s what it’s all about,” said Amaker, Harvard’s winningest coach in program history. “It’s more meaningful to call myself ...