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Advocacy Group to DOJ: Cengage-McGraw Hill Merger Could Create a ‘Platform Monopoly’ in Education

Edsurge

An open-access advocacy group on Wednesday sent a formal filing to the U.S. Industry data show that there has been a significant decline in student spending on course materials over the last decade,” said a spokesperson for Cengage and McGraw-Hill, in a statement Wednesday.

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10 Things To Know about the Future of Blockchain in Education

Doug Levin

I recently availed myself of the chance to join and learn from many of the leading innovators and thinkers in the emerging blockchain industry at the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s DC Blockchain Summit 2016 , which billed itself (accurately, I think) as “a dialogue at the intersection of industry, regulation, and innovation.”

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Funding Edtech with the E-Rate Program and Grants

edWeb.net

This is likely to be especially important in light of what is being called the “fourth industrial revolution,” which includes emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and 5G networks. In 2010 the FCC appointed her to the USAC board representing the nation’s schools and libraries on ERATE. Cynthia Schultz, Esq.,

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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

Here’s a hint: they’ve produced more than double the number of books created by the next largest producer. Effective Advocacy. Today, this is the new normal – open sharing and collaboration within what is otherwise an absolutely cutthroat industry. Here’s another hint: they haven’t created a new open textbook since 2012.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 10 dedicated educators

eSchool News

Michelle Kruse, Content Lead for Libraries, Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy, Cedar Rapids Community School District Nominated by: Follett Michelle Kruse is the teacher librarian at Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy (RCCBA), a magnet middle school in the Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD). Dr. Dana T.

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Diversifying Your Classroom Book Collections? Avoid these 7 Pitfalls

MindShift

Some have publicly proclaimed the steps they will take to create anti-racist schools , including diversifying classroom and library bookshelves. That task may be easier than ever, thanks to six years of advocacy by the We Need Diverse Books campaign. Picture books: Hands Up! That needs to be a goal,” said Michelle H.

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New York’s upstate cities have some of the worst schools in the country

The Hechinger Report

Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo form the eastern edge of the Rust Belt — America’s former industrial heartland straddling the Great Lakes from New York to Wisconsin — that has been devastated by the flight of manufacturing jobs to lower-wage, nonunionized states and countries. They’re all gone now. Test scores, however, haven’t budged.