Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

As I read the article, I couldn’t help but reflect on a recent article in PLOS One by Phil Grimaldi and his colleagues at OpenStax , which challenged us to be more specific in our theorizing about why OER adoption might improve student learning. Learning will only improve measurably if you ALSO do something else.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program. Kemper is a dedicated advocate for education and learning for people of all ages and backgrounds.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program. Kemper is a dedicated advocate for education and learning for people of all ages and backgrounds.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 18, 2023

Between 2005 and 2007, productivity increased by 41% and employee turnover decreased by 90%. We might think of the following as examples of student autonomy: Playlists and self-paced learning. And this, among other reasons, cause some students to struggle with self-directed learning. Choice in tasks or texts.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program. Kemper is a dedicated advocate for education and learning for people of all ages and backgrounds.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program. Kemper is a dedicated advocate for education and learning for people of all ages and backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

A New Hampshire student shows one of his assignments to his mother, biology teacher and math teacher during a personalized learning meeting. Related: NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past? Photo: Emily Richmond for The Hechinger Report. That’s a tall order from states.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The Census Bureau’s 2005 American Community Survey counted 2.4 million in 2005 to 7.1 Eschman first discovered the Clayton County program in 2005. million grandparents living with grandchildren for whom they were responsible. By 2014, the latest year for which data is available, that number had risen to 2.7 million in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For this story, reporters analyzed every available open-enrollment charter application approved between 2005 and 2015 — the decade after Katrina. It’s stuff that we learned.”. It’s stuff that we learned.”. Open enrollment schools are open to all students who live in the city, regardless of street address or skill level.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

Some 25 percent of kids in her second center, Little Smiles Christian Learning Center, are also low-income. Only about 14 percent of families eligible for the child care subsidies are actually enrolled in the program, according to a report from the First Five Years Fund, a child care and early learning advocacy group.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2016

This is a free event on hosted by The Learning Revolution and School of Information at San José State University and takes place online March 16th, 2016, from 12:00 - 3:00pm US-Pacific Time (click for your own time zone). To register click here. To register click here. To submit to present, see below!

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s a common story: the energetic principal who comes into a school, revamps the curriculum, creates innovative learning practices, and then leaves with no sustainability plan. Even before the pandemic and the shift to distance education, learning extended beyond the classroom. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Our Voice Nuestra Voz, a non-profit education advocacy group in New Orleans, analyzed the school performance scores data and found that approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. And failure is trending. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2023

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. As a volunteer, Martinez learned skills to help her recruit parents, such as giving an elevator pitch.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. Then, in 2011, Mississippi became a “ model ” for other states when new social studies standards set an expectation that students learn civil rights in depth.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

The schools had been taken over by the state-run Recovery School District in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Equity in education refers to the concept of fairness, meaning that students at different levels of learning are offered the resources they need to succeed.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 12, 2022

mini-conference is a chance to share and to learn the ideas, innovations, tools, and techniques that will help all library leaders in their work with people and their communities. She has served as the Executive Director of the Houston Public Library since 2005. As always, we are up to the challenge. This Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 17, 2022

mini-conference is a chance to share and to learn the ideas, innovations, tools, and techniques that will help all library leaders in their work with people and their communities. She has served as the Executive Director of the Houston Public Library since 2005. As always, we are up to the challenge. This Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 7, 2022

mini-conference is a chance to share and to learn the ideas, innovations, tools, and techniques that will help all library leaders in their work with people and their communities. She has served as the Executive Director of the Houston Public Library since 2005. As always, we are up to the challenge. This Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 21, 2022

mini-conference is a chance to share and to learn the ideas, innovations, tools, and techniques that will help all library leaders in their work with people and their communities. She has served as the Executive Director of the Houston Public Library since 2005. As always, we are up to the challenge. This Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2022

mini-conference is a chance to share and to learn the ideas, innovations, tools, and techniques that will help all library leaders in their work with people and their communities. She has served as the Executive Director of the Houston Public Library since 2005. As always, we are up to the challenge. This Library 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In addition to matters of curriculum and instruction, factors outside the school — food, housing, transportation, safety, recreation — also affect the degree to which students learn. Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A 2005 report by researchers at the City University of New York Graduate Center put together the first — and so far only — comprehensive national study of deaths in child care , cobbling together reports published in media outlets, legal cases and some state records. “Key That’s why nothing is happening.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 8, 2016

Some great upcoming (and all free) Learning Revolution events are below. Join Neverware and The Learning Revolution to learn how CloudReady does exactly that on up to 8 year old laptops or desktops, extending their life along with making them run faster to help preserve budget. Sign up to attend or receive the recordings HERE.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2022

In small doses, years ago, vouchers seemed like they might work, but as more states have created more and larger voucher programs, experts like me have learned enough to say that these programs on balance can severely hinder academic growth — especially for vulnerable kids. Here’s how I know. We’re talking about kids’ lives.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Todd Ziebarth, senior vice president for state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, says that, in some parts of the country, organizations that oversee charters have started to take a more active role in ensuring that the schools enroll a diverse student body. Future of Learning. Weekly Update.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all. TESOL Instructor and Practicum Supervisor at Touro College, Founder and Managing Director at Virtual Exchange 4 Change | Cristina Zaccarini, Ph.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

They have to learn early.”. Related: Blue-collar town leads Rhode Island’s tech-assisted learning revolution. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. They can’t wait until they’re 30 years old.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

“Child care is not funded to serve all children who are eligible and it’s not funded to provide rates that ensure quality care for all eligible children,” said Karen Schulman, the child care and early learning research director at the National Women’s Law Center, which advocates for gender equity. Department of Health and Human Services.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

When high school senior Destiny Watford learned that state officials had approved a building permit for a giant incinerator that would burn 4,000 tons of trash every day and emit more than a thousand pounds of lead and mercury every year, less than a mile away from her school in Baltimore, she took action.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 24, 2019

Property maps, 311 data, school quality information and census statistics - all of these are examples of open data that give people the tools they need to learn and advocate for their causes. Derek served in the Washington state House from 2005 to 2007 and the state Senate from 2007 until he was elected to the US House in 2012.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 22, 2019

Property maps, 311 data, school quality information and census statistics - all of these are examples of open data that give people the tools they need to learn and advocate for their causes. Derek served in the Washington state House from 2005 to 2007 and the state Senate from 2007 until he was elected to the US House in 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2017

But kids need to learn about gender, along with the skills that promote safe sex, if they’re going to have positive relationships and respect one another. It was the most ever recorded, according to the advocacy group. Related: Foundations aren’t helping anyone if they’re not serious about social justice. Nearly 1 in 5 (18.3

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

produced and directed a documentary film called Corridor of Shame , released in April 2005 and shown on public television statewide. Heck, Ray, what’s up with these learning cottages?” Bud Ferillo is a preppy, genteel sort of hellraiser. The activist and former legislator from Columbia, S.C., He recalls Feb. Then on Aug. Obama asked.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

And when Lyon helped knock down the former Seward Middle School in 2005, he said the wooden beams were so rotted he could push a pencil through them. The schools’ primary function is to provide a place for students to learn, but the wider community has a stake in keeping the facilities in good shape. It’s happened before.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

. “Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes -- think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. ” Renaissance Learning has released the results of its annual survey on what students are reading.

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