Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 31, 2022
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.
NeverEndingSearch
JULY 21, 2021
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. Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. Let’s put her in the library.
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The Hechinger Report
JULY 1, 2016
Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. By comparison, the national average is about 20.4 “We should be spending more than any other state because we have more poverty — significantly more poverty.”. Census data. We didn’t have a lot of extra.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 3, 2016
It’s very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,” said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left-leaning education advocacy group. She points out, however, that they do get a period of music, art, physical education or library time every day.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 22, 2016
Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. 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. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. You wanna buy a college education? Of course you do!
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” People certainly locate and learn from a wide range of resources in a wide range of informal settings in public libraries and online, but that’s not what I would call “adoption.”
NeverEndingSearch
DECEMBER 20, 2017
However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. That was certainly the case in our experience. You can now find out.
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