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Here are five steps that all districts should take when implementing student safety procedures and protocols for 1:1 devices and online access. With eight schools, 5,000 students, and a 1:1 Chromebook initiative across all grades, our high-performing district takes student safety very seriously. Our job is to give them anytime, anywhere access to information, but we also need to...

Today’s districts put student data at the forefront of decisions from the choice of curriculum to determining the need for intervention. Educators can now paint a holistic picture of student groups or individual students by identifying achievement gaps, patterns in student behavior and engagement, and chronic absenteeism. Schoolzilla by Renaissance is a data platform that makes education data easy...

Renaissance, a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, recently released the 2020 edition of What Kids Are Reading, a report that has been providing educators, families, and communities unparalleled insight into students’ reading habits for more than a decade. This year’s What Kids Are Reading report highlights the most popular books among millions of K–12 students across the nation, and also finds that easy access...

Planning to study in Europe? Be sure to check out our collection of tips so that you can experience more of the continent Paperwork Review all of your paperwork with a critical eye, and then go over it again. Bureaucracy is a worldwide phenomenon, but in some countries it is almost an art. When I was studying at the University of...

Students can now apply to be the representative of Spain and the campaign Study in Spain (SiS) in their university for the next round of the Student Ambassador Program. The program aims to strengthen relations and the image of Spain in higher learning institutions across the U.S. through various promotional activities conducted by the SiS Student Ambassadors in their universities,...

Deadline Approaches for 2017 UN Student Essay Contest and Global Youth Forum ELS and the United Nations Academic Impact are sponsoring the fourth Many Languages, One World Student Essay Contest and Global Youth Forum. This year welcomes Northeastern University as the host of the Many Languages, One World Global Youth Forum and the sponsor and organizer of the Northeastern University...

Building on the recently announced 100,000 Strong in the Americas initiative, Mexico’s President Peña Nieto and U.S. President Obama agreed to boost student exchange between the two countries during last week’s trilateral conference with Canadian PM Stephen Harper in Toluca, Mexico. Peña Nieto explained the plan, “Specifically, we talked about education.  We have set a goal of having more academic...