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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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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. The 38 studies in the review that focused on longer days or longer years sometimes found an academic gain for just one group of students, for example, third graders, or for just one subject.

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

NeverEndingSearch

For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. Is that academic leadership and advocacy being spread those through universities to their school librarian alumni? Joyce : Thanks, Deb.

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How Blogging Changed My Career

Fractus Learning

For example, someone will share that when they were a child they made gingerbread houses with their mom at Christmas, or they built forts outside with their friends in the summer. This is the name of a public blog I administrate and is something that I use for early childhood educator professionalism advocacy. From Then to Now.

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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. While 3,000 students is only a tiny fraction of the 2.1

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

The Hechinger Report

In Rochester, for example, just 6.7 If it were using a Common Core test, for example, New York City could be compared to other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco, Washington and Boston. Some argue that Syracuse could be doing more, pointing to New York City as an example of where innovation has improved student achievement.