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"The goal of the Helping Ohio Preschoolers Excel line, also known as H.O.P.E., is to provide rapid response infant and early childhood mental health consultation for licensed childcare programs to support children birth to 8 years old. Research shows preschool children are expelled at rates 3x higher than K-12 students. This leads to long-term negative outcomes for our youngest learners. Since inception, H.O.P.E. has helped to avoid 92% of expulsions for children who received the service."

TikTok may be enormously popular, but according to the growing number of government, there are concerns regarding links between the app and the Chinese government. That has led to a rapid spread bans of the TikTok app on government devices not only at the federal level, but at provincial and municipal governments and even at universities for university-owned devices. But is TikTok unique in this…

Heartland Tech Weekly: Square’s Jim McKelvey says universities still crucial for tech education

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Square cofounder Jim McKelvey, whom St. Louis-area readers of this newsletter are likely very familiar with. Though McKelvey and Square’s other cofounder Jack Dorsey both hail from St. Louis, they started the company in San Francisco. They tried to open an engineering office in St. Louis, but found there wasn’t enough tech talent in the area to…

Intervening at the CRTC: Nothing Encourages Participation Like Background Checks and Legally Mandated Undertakings

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s hearing on basic telecommunications services launched earlier this week with the Commission continuing its effort to engage the public with an open discussion forumthat will allow for comments to placed on the record (comments outside of the CRTC universe – op-eds, blog posts or social media comments do not count). While CRTC chair…