📚 Education Sep 2, 2026 · Joshua Dunn

Public Schools’ Eye of Sauron

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Public Schools’ Eye of Sauron
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As parents and teachers discover more reasons to question the indiscriminate carpet bombing of classrooms with digital devices and ed tech of dubious pedagogical value, a case from Arizona reveals another, more Orwellian, danger.
The Marana Unified School District and Marana High School deploy a suite of ed-tech devices and programs, purportedly in service of improving learning. Unfortunately, this technology also allows the school to conduct what amounts to nearly 24/7 monitoring of students. T

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