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Eligible for financial aid, nearly a million students never get it

The Hechinger Report

“When these programs were designed, it was an acknowledgment that there were low-income students who had need, and of the importance of going to college,” said Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy at the nonpartisan National College Access Network. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

So you wouldn’t find, for example, with technology — Albemarle has been in a one-to-one environment for a number of years now, as has Charlottesville City. They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. We have districts that have all the resources in the world, and we have districts that are really challenged.

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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

Effective Advocacy. In 2002, UNESCO followed those leads choosing to name the subset of open content that was useful for teaching and learning “open educational resources,” instead of a name with “free” in the title.). Advocates helped businesses understand the ways that adopting an open source model would be good for their business.

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

The Hechinger Report

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. The class sizes at Enterprise Attendance Center are an example of these struggles. The currency change happened in 2002. But next fiscal year is already clouded by uncertainty.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Searsport had started transitioning to a standards-based diploma in 2002, after receiving a share of a $10-million school reform grant that Gates had made to the Sen. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts.

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‘The Truth Is, I Love the Work’

Edsurge

I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. Leticia Martinez Leticia Martinez immigrated to Los Angeles from Mexico in 2002 with her three daughters.

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

For example, people with diabetes, arthritis, AIDS, cancer and heart disease are often not cured and, yet, with support and appropriate management, they can live fulfilling lives. An example of a social context would be poor communication skills that result in the child not being able to make his/her needs and frustrations known to others.

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