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JobsFirstNYC | June 08, 2022

On June 7th, JobsFirstNYC announced that it has partnered with New York City’s Mayor’s office to promote the expansion of the Summer Youth Employment Program. The initiative aims to expand the program from 75,000 to 100,000 participants through a multi-stakeholder partnership approach. The strategy is anticipated to boost the experience of employers and young people with learning opportunities. "The Mayor's office is committed to su...

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Verizon Sourcing LLC | October 28, 2021

Verizon Business today announced new BlueJeans Meetings enhancements, including a bundle of features to support hybrid and remote learning. Available as part of specific BlueJeans Meetings plans, or for education customers at a special discounted rate, the new BlueJeans Remote Learning feature pack allows instructors to build a custom teaching experience without the overhead associated with hosting traditional online classes. Despite connectivity, education and delivery challenges...

educationdive | April 08, 2020

Composer — a free digital resource from High Resolves, Facing History and Ourselves, iCivics, Generation Citizen and Peace First — enables educators to access a variety of citizenship education materials to produce cross-disciplinary instructional “strings,” with guides and suggestions on how students can practice what they’ve learned through real-world experiences. The tool, produced with funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Imaginable Futures, currently...

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Bark Technologies | September 06, 2021

Online safety company Bark Technologies today announced the addition of Microsoft Teams to the list of platforms it monitors at schools nationwide. Bark is the latest company to offer this level of protection on the popular Teams platform. Currently, Bark monitors more than 30 of today's most popular social media platforms and apps, as well as text messages, chats, emails, and Microsoft OneDrive files. Bark also monitors images, text within images, audio, and video that can be...