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

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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calculators, including those created by Vemo, have been the target of complaints that say their salary data is outdated.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

The Hechinger Report

My favorite comparison I see a lot is about asking a fish to climb a tree. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. And that’s not the case,” said Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., I’m not asking Matthew to climb a tree.

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Transfer students start getting more of the credits they’ve already earned

The Hechinger Report

” At La Verne, by comparison, he said in a cafe in the student union, “There was one person in charge of everything , and she put me in touch with the people I needed to talk to by the next day.” ” He managed to finish the rest of his degree in three semesters. “Students beat themselves up about this.

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Consumers get more information about a purchase they once made on trust: college

The Hechinger Report

They say it’s easier to learn the odds of winning Powerball than of graduating, or to comparison-shop for a mattress than to compare the actual cost of tuition, fees, and other expenses among schools. Tom Allison, deputy policy and research director at the millennial advocacy group Young Invincibles, is skeptical of this argument. “I

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

The Hechinger Report

The staggering disparity in how much parent groups can raise for their neighborhood schools exists throughout the country. Rita Green, the Washington state education chair for the NAACP, volunteered on the parent-teacher group at Rainier Beach High from 2007 to 2016. Credit: Kam Yee.