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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

This back-to-school-season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. The Math Problem Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S. With billions being spent to beef up U.S. They have so many options with math.

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Some Very Bad News about the UNESCO OER Recommendation

Iterating Toward Openness

That piece was based on the text of the most recent public draft (which I will call the “public draft” below), which many of us believed to be the document the 40th Congress unanimously approved. Section II.8

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Goldman Sachs looks at higher education, very darkly

Bryan Alexander

Goldman Sachs shared their analysis of higher education for investors a few weeks ago, and it’s an important document for people in higher education to consider. If current cost and wage growth trends persist then students starting college in 2030/2050 will have to wait 11/15 years post college to break even.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Princeton University filed a lawsuit against the Education Department on Friday in an effort to stop the release of hundreds of pages of documents that would reveal some of the university’s private admissions procedures.” The presentation software startup has raised $5.15

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “ Salesforce will start selling its online learning platform, which has helped its own employees change roles and get promotions,” says MIT Technology Review , going with the wonderful lie in the headline “Making Job-Training Software People Actually Want to Use.” ” asks MIT Technology Review.