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How To (Hypothetically) Hack A University’s Surveillance System
This week, hacktivist and security engineer Lance R. Vick tweeted an enticing proposition along with a gut-punch headline: “Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands,” read the Washington Post link. The report revealed nearly instantaneous and sweeping adoption of smartphone-tracking platforms implemented in roughly 60 U.S. campuses,…
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Study: Future Teachers Are Already Biased Against Black Children
That black school children are treated more harshly than white children by teachers is no secret, as plenty of studies and painful anecdotes have repeatedly shown. But some recent research published in the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology suggests an even more discouraging reality: The incoming generation of teachers shows bias against black kids, too.
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Social Media Is Corrupting The Youth Slightly Less Than We Feared
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram might not be destroying the minds of The Youth™ as much as we thought, according to a recent review published in Educational Psychology. In some cases, social media could even be helping them do better at school.
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Australian Study Finds Playing Video Games Improves School Grades
Teenagers who regularly play online video games tend to improve their school results, according to new research from RMIT University. But school students who visit Facebook or chat sites every day are more likely to fall behind in maths, reading and science.