Susanne Pesel reports: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have funded the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET) which brings together volunteers and researchers “to build and test measures of effective teaching to find out how evaluation methods could best be used to tell teachers more about the skills that make them most effective and to…
Category: U.S.
Des Moines Public Schools turn to NOVAtime for biometric workforce management
Adam Vrankulj reports: NOVAtime Technology has announced that the Des Moines Public Schools has chosen NOVAtime to automate its time and attendance process for its employees across the school district. According to the company, its subscription-based workforce management solution, NOVAtime 4000 Software as a Service, as well as over 80 of its NT6500 fingerprint time…
Missouri photo biometrics plan in limbo
David A. Lieb of Associated Press reports: With its financing in jeopardy, Missouri has slowed work on a high-tech computer program intended to catch potential fraud or criminals by conducting a biometric analysis — or facial recognition — of digital photographs taken for state driver’s licenses and identification cards. Read more on SFGATE.com. Although the main…
Fascinating New Case on Legal Standards for Searching a Remote Computer With Unknown Location
This definitely doesn’t qualify as BREAKING NEWS, but Orin Kerr disagrees with Magistrate Judge Stephen Smith’s analysis of a government application to hack a hacker’s computer. You can read Orin’s commentary on Volokh Conspiracy.