What is The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)?
Requires that websites, edtech apps, and other digital vendors protect the privacy of children 13 years old and younger. Personal data must be masked and cannot be harvested for sale to other companies or vendors.
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What is Credit Recovery?
Allows students to retake classes online that they have failed in person, helping them remain on track for graduation. Online credit recovery was introduced about a decade ago, and it has since become a booming business. School districts have experienced soaring graduation rates, leaving companies competing to sell virtual courses
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What is Unit Recovery?
Allows students to retake only the units or skills that they need to advance. For instance, a student who has demonstrated mastery of 6 out of 10 concepts in an English class doesn’t need to retake the entire course—he can focus on the four concepts that weren’t mastered in person.
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What is Initial Credit?
These online courses are for students who want to “advance course progression” to take additional classes, students who have transferred to a new district and need to complete required courses or students who aren’t able to schedule certain courses during the regular school day. As the name suggests, these programs
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What is Tuition Discounting?
Colleges provide discounted tuition to select students in the form of grant money and scholarships, allowing them to attend at a cheaper rate than the sticker price. In theory, such discounts can increase enrollment, leading to an overall increase in total tuition revenue for the university. In this context, tuition
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What is Social-Emotional Development?
In children is crucial. It includes the child’s ability to understand the feelings of others, manage his emotions, and build relationships with both children and adults.
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What are Fine Motor Skills?
Are described as small movements attributed to the use of the hands. Children under five are especially in need of exercises in building fine motor skills as it prepares them for writing and the everyday actions we partake in as adults.
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What are Gross Motor Skills?
Are needed to control the movement and coordination of the larger muscles found in the arms, legs, and torso.
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What are Emergent Preschool Programs?
Vary depending on the teachers and the students. It is because teachers plan activities around their current students’ skills, needs, and interests. No two classrooms will look the same. There is a mixture of play-based and project-based learning in this approach.
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What is the Bank Street Model?
The Bank Street model began at Bank Street College of Education in New York City in 1916. This non-traditional program helps children learn from the world around them by introducing them to social sciences. The program encourages active learning and imagination guided by teachers (who are viewed in this program
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