Whos of Who-cester

Screenshot of Monday's orders, highlighting the relevant line Yes, that is all that they send out! Unless you were watching for it, you ...

  San Francisco Unified signed a contract with OpenAI before putting it before their school board , where it appears on their consent agenda...

  I am of course posting this after the Worcester School Committee meeting at which this was discussed. This is partly because this isn'...

 Remember how one of the last things done by the Office of Civil Rights under the Biden administration was to send out guidance on the dange...

 (see, there are tech in schools things to talk about besides AI!) have a little fall photo to break this up Earlier this month, I got the ...

Some schools are doing it . And the research is clear on the biases in the system : The systems falsely identified African-American and A...

All 864 pages of it are online here , and this is what will be voted on tomorrow evening. I should also note that I was not at the last bui...

I'm at the National School Boards Convention in Philadelphia this weekend; periodic blogging as warranted. This morning, I'm at the ...

The backup is here Sagan: will do as a review of the assessment committee meeting "very interesting time" coming to the end of ...

Okay,   we're going to do this as the act itself actually reads ; as always, h/t to EdWeek  that keeps up with this all the time.Other...

The Worcester School Committee meets Thursday; you can find the agenda here . The report of the Superintendent is an update on North High...

And has anyone checked? Great article in the NY Times today on the growing use of apps at schools, and the lack of tracking where the infor...

Folks, it's over : After months caught in the crosshairs of parents, advocates, and educators concerned about student-data privacy, c...

Odd way to get the information, but we'll take it! See the below exchange from Twitter this afternoon: (I suppose we can parse...

Hey, more good signs from the Massachusetts junior senator :  Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today announced plans to introduce legi...

Ms. Biancheria reading the report of Accountability with items on PARCC and on student privacy

Nice one from our new(est) Massachusetts senator, Edward Markey, who recently sent a letter to Secretary Duncan, expressing concerns regard...

Perda: obtain written permission from parents prior to sharing information about students practice is to use a letter this is the practice...

Perda: "student privacy around records is something that the district takes very seriously." both the right thing to do and the l...