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More than a passion project, literacy advocacy takes a village

eSchool News

Between Seattle, Naples, and the Bahamas, there are advocacy villages everywhere, filled with educators like Hannah Irion-Frake, a third-grade teacher in Pennsylvania who spends her career advocating for and creating readers. “I Literacy advocacy can come in many shapes and sizes.

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Here’s How Modern Data Management Platforms Help K-12 Schools Get Work Done

EdTech Magazine

“School systems are swimming in valuable data that potentially could be used to support students,” says Susan Bearden, former director of digital programs for InnovateEDU, a nonprofit educational organization that is home to the data advocacy group Project Unicorn. In K–12 education, data is often siloed in proprietary systems — student…

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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

This article started out with my being bothered by the fact that ‘OER adoption reliably saves students money but does not reliably improve their outcomes.’ ’ For many years OER advocates have told faculty, “When you adopt OER your students save money and get the same or better outcomes!”

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OER / ZTC Advocates Have an AI Problem

Iterating Toward Openness

At some point over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) advocacy in US higher education became zero textbook costs (ZTC) advocacy. This is why I refer to this line of advocacy as “free no matter the cost.” There are plenty of practical reasons why this might have happened.

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PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says

The Hechinger Report

This unlikely outcome very probably reflects the fact that most districts stopped taking daily attendance once school buildings closed,” Chang said. The post PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Online Education Advocacy Group Launches as Dept. of Ed Proposes Loosening Regulations

Edsurge

“There are think tanks and individuals that cannot let go of that association and have looked to online learning in general with a very jaundiced eye.”

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An Accidental, Systematic Attack on OER Sustainability Models

Iterating Toward Openness

An Accidental, Systematic Attack on OER Sustainability Models Whether they realize it or not, advocates are targeting the sustainability models of both the ecosystem-level OER creators (like OpenStax) through their advocacy for ZTC policies and the institution-level OER creators (like Kansas State) through their more recent rulemaking advocacy.

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