Twitter is making it easier for users to report abuse while also clarifying the type of talk it will permit.
Aimed squarely at those who use the social media platform to bully, threaten and harass others, Twitter's new tool for thwarting these efforts is a new button for reporting abuse. The single-click method for reporting abuse replaces the previous method, which involved navigating to seperate pages on the site and completing an abuse form.
With repsect to the policy change, NBC News reported that, "the new rules include a stricture against 'targeted abuse,' something which could include slamming a single user with messages from multiple accounts, creating an account purely to harass someone, or making threats."
For many years there have been debates in K-12 education in the US concerning incentives or rewarding students for grades, attendance, behavior, test scores, etc. I remember at one time that educators frowned on the idea of rewarding students, especially older pupils for showing improvement. The belief was that students should want to improve their grades, attendance etc. for its own self reward. That students would be more interested in the "prizes" than the actual improvement that they...
As all school administrators must know, there is a very real teacher shortage currently in American schools and the projections are that it will only be getting worse. What is causing this shortage? It is estimated that 50% of new teachers will leave the profession in their first five years of teaching. Some of the reasons for this high turnovers are: lack of district and state funding for positions, student enrollment is climbing, the pandemic has caused many teachers to leave their jobs,...
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