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Taking an AP test outside McD’s: The low-income student’s predicament
Of the thousands of students I’ve taught in my 10-year career, Natalie is the brightest, sweetest and purest. She shines in my Advanced Placement English class, pushing the thinking of her peers while deftly articulating her own ideas.
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Plainfield School District Purchases Hotspots to Aid In Virtual Learning
PLAINFIELD, NJ — Superintendent Dr. Diana Mitchell explained her position on an emergency purchase decision to buy over 700 hotspots for the Plainfield Public School District at Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting. The purchase was in response to the district’s move to a virtual learning platform in mid-March due to the COVID-19 health crisis that…
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A Few Considerations to Help a Client Quickly Bring an Arts/Artisan Business Online
Note: All of the following is semi-anecdotal — it is not meant to be comprehensive nor universal advice. In early April, someone on the NDIA listserv asked for advice on helping artists quickly create online stores to weather the COVID-19 crisis. The following email response (from DIPNJ member, Andrew Farrelly) was later requested to be…
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US’s digital divide ‘is going to kill people’ as Covid-19 exposes inequalities
Exclusive research shows drop in connectivity is impacting rural and urban areas with populations already underserved by the medical system or racked with poverty
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10 WordPress Plugins to Help Improve Website Accessibility
WordPress provides you with a decent head start when it comes to creating accessible websites. For example, recent default themes like Twenty Seventeen are already built with accessibility in mind. But that doesn’t mean that your work is done.
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Antitrust Enforcement Needs to Evolve for the 21st Century
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the creation of a new task force to monitor competition in technology markets. Given the inadequacies of federal antitrust enforcement over the past generation, we welcome the new task force and reiterate our suggestions for how regulators can better protect technology markets and consumers.
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The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked
Editors’ note: This is Motherboard’s comprehensive guide to digital security, which will be regularly updated and replaces some of our old guides. There is a version history at the bottom of this post.
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How to invite your friends to online board game nights during the quarantine
Social distancing doesn’t have to mean social isolation
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Choosing the VPN That’s Right for You
VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the web) appears to originate from the VPN itself, rather than your own ISP. This masks your IP address, which can be an important tool for protecting your privacy, since…
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Harden Your Zoom Settings to Protect Your Privacy and Avoid Trolls
Whether you are on Zoom because your employer or school requires it or you just downloaded it to stay in touch with friends and family, people have rushed to the video chat platform in the wake of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders—and journalists, researchers, and regulators have noticed its many security and privacy problems.
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