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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

This article started out with my being bothered by the fact that ‘OER adoption reliably saves students money but does not reliably improve their outcomes.’ ’ For many years OER advocates have told faculty, “When you adopt OER your students save money and get the same or better outcomes!”

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Mapping Out-of-School-Time Opportunities: Why It Matters

Digital Promise

According to the CLX report: “Engaging in OST programs that provide these types of opportunities has been shown to benefit youth learning and development, improving academic, social, and emotional outcomes (depending on the program’s focus) for all youth, regardless of socioeconomic status, racial/ethnic background, or gender.”.

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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

The Hechinger Report

We didn’t pay a parking ticket or a library fine, and our college refused to release our transcript. But imagine that a student’s debt went beyond failing to pay a library fine. trillion in debt, but for many low-income students, even something as comparatively paltry as a library fine can amount to a week’s food budget.

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Funding Edtech with the E-Rate Program and Grants

edWeb.net

Proposal reviewers will also focus on the outcomes, both in terms of how they were developed and how the funding will help to achieve those goals. In 2010 the FCC appointed her to the USAC board representing the nation’s schools and libraries on ERATE. Another important factor is whether the project could be replicated elsewhere.

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Planning for and Sustaining District Technology Innovations

edWeb.net

Sponsored by ClassLink How to balance student outcomes with budgets is a challenge for district leaders. Using the total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis addresses the initial investment and the operational and support costs over the life of the investment for a district’s technology environment.

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What If Schools Viewed Outdoor Learning as ‘Plan A’?

Edsurge

Library of Congress ) The photos, shot in black and white, are from the early 20th century, and the disease in question was tuberculosis. While it was the outcome Teller had hoped for, it also “led to a frenzy of figuring out what that looks like,” she says. An open-air class in Rutherford, N.Y. An open-air class in South Boston, Mass.,

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Taking Districts’ Technology Integration to the Next Level

edWeb.net

Due to pandemic-driven increases in school districts’ purchases of devices and software, there’s now a need to develop cohesive systems in which data can be transferred and analyzed quickly and easily in order to improve student outcomes and district operations. This makes for little or no manual data entry and uploading of spreadsheets.