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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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There should also be outreach to new partners such as libraries and local city councils in an effort to obtain resources and other support. Staying Organized and Healthy. Arati Nagaraj is an education consultant, edtech advisor and school board trustee in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!), Father Goose).Sea

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. Via Mark Guzdial’s Computing Education Blog : “University CS graduation surpasses its 2003 peak, with poor diversity.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Ithaka S+R and OCLC Research launch project to examine how universities and their libraries are changing.”

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Are History Textbooks Worth Using Anymore? Maybe Not, Some Teachers Say

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In her 2003 book “ The Language Police ,” education historian Diane Ravitch contends that “every textbook has a point of view, despite a facade of neutrality.” and then sift through documents on websites like Teaching American History , the Library of Congress and the Toolbox Library of the National Humanities Center to make their cases.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Hayden is the first new librarian of Congress since 1987,” The New York Times observed at her swearing in in September, “and brings with her another generation’s ideas about accessibility, technology and the role that libraries play in society.” “The fix” is always privatization.