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In 2012, Northside Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas introduced active RFID, [5] worn on a lanyard around the student's necks. One student refused to participate in the program and was expelled from school, [6] after a court case. [7] The school eventually dropped the RFID program and started tracking students with cameras instead.
Access badges use various technologies to identify the holder of the badge to an access control system. The most common technologies are magnetic stripe, proximity, barcode, smart cards and various biometric devices. The magnetic stripe ID card was invented by Forrest Parry in 1960. [1] The access badge contains a number that is read by a card ...
In 2002, the supplier Micro Librarian Systems, which use a technology similar to that used in US prisons and the German military, estimated that 350 schools throughout Britain were using such systems, to replace library cards. [15] In 2007, it was estimated that 3,500 schools (ten times more) are using such systems. [16]
In the paper, badges are explained as "a symbol or indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest," with examples of badge systems used by the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, PADI diving instruction, and the more recently popular geo-locative games, like Foursquare. [11]
Open Badges are designed to serve a broad range of digital badge use cases, including both academic and non-academic uses. [22] The core Open Badge specification is made up of three types of Badge Objects: [23] Assertion Represents an awarded badge. It contains information about a single badge that belongs to an individual earner. BadgeClass
There were six arrests at Terry High School during the 2013-14 school year. Two years ago, there were 20. By March of the 2015-16 school year, school officials had reported 27 arrests, more than four times the number they recorded during the entire 2013-14 school year. Most were for disorderly conduct. Terry High School is far from unusual.
RFID systems can be classified by the type of tag and reader. There are 3 types: [20] A Passive Reader Active Tag (PRAT) system has a passive reader which only receives radio signals from active tags (battery operated, transmit only). The reception range of a PRAT system reader can be adjusted from 1–2,000 feet (0–600 m), allowing ...
The small schools movement, also known as the Small Schools Initiative, in the United States of America holds that many high schools are too large and should be reorganized into smaller, autonomous schools of no more than 400 students, and optimally under 200. Many private schools of under 200 share design features which draw upon the benefits ...