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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

Edsurge

District leaders, school administrators and educators need sustained support to effectively and respectfully implement the shifts behind a curricular mandate like this. Professional development is a key part of building awareness of this absence and a knowledge-base for the educators who will be teaching students directly.

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If We Talked About the Internet Like We Talk About OER: The Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

While everyone wants educational materials to be less expensive, lower costs are the least interesting thing about digital, networked learning. When our presentations and our writing and our speaking and our advocacy focus primarily on ways that OER alleviate the cost problem, we’re actually doing exactly what publishers want.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

In fairness, startups weren’t the only education companies experiencing this sort of upheaval this year: Amplify, News Corps’ education division, continued to sell off various parts of its failed business. DeVry Education Group got a new CEO." Layoffs at General Assembly (7% of staff). Why, schools of course.