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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. They are essentially media comparison studies or, to be more precise, license comparison studies. It should surprise no one that media comparison studies find no significant difference in student learning.

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More Colleges Are Offering Income-Share Agreements. Are Students Buying In?

Edsurge

Such claims have caught the attention of consumer-protection advocacy groups like the Student Borrower Protection Center, which has found marketing language that it contends is deceptive and predatory. Comparison calculators, including those created by Vemo, have been the target of complaints that say their salary data is outdated.

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PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

The Hechinger Report

. “Students with disabilities have a right to learn alongside their peers, and studies have shown that this is beneficial not only for students with disabilities but also for other students in the classroom,” said Lindsay Lubatzky, the organization’s director of policy and advocacy.

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Foreign tech workers are getting fed up. Can better education for U.S. students fill the gap?

The Hechinger Report

By comparison, “the Indian economy and the framework which exists for me, being a citizen of India, was pretty good.”. All students need to have access, or we’re going to exacerbate the opportunity gap.”. Related: How a decline in community college students is a big problem for the economy. When you’re looking at the U.S.

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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

NeverEndingSearch

Is that academic leadership and advocacy being spread those through universities to their school librarian alumni? Is there an infiltration of leadership and advocacy coming from those universities that also helps to encourage school librarian employment in those states? District Profiles.

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N.Y.C. Schools to Decide on Amazon Contract Worth Up to $64.5M

Marketplace K-12

New York City public schools today announced plans to move forward on a proposed Amazon contract for an online e-book marketplace for educators, after the deal stalled for seven months while concerns about accessibility for blind and visually impaired users were addressed. The Marketplace. Amazon Top Pick for Contract to Create N.Y.C.

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Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

The Hechinger Report

A key priority at the meeting: Ensuring all children had access to a good education and skilled teachers. Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Classroom access should be considered the bare minimum, she said. Credit: Dawn Larson.