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SchoolBook: New Social Media Policy Restricts Teacher-Student Contact

With allegations of inappropriate interactions between school staff and students on the rise -- and many of those interactions initiated on social media -- the city's Department of Education has issued new guidelines for online contact. The policy preserves the pedagogical uses of social media, but restricts personal uses. ...

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Published By: The New York Times - Tuesday, 1 May, 2012

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