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On paper, teens are thriving. In reality, they’re not

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Are teens struggling because smartphone time is leading to less sleep ? What climate education look like in the U.S.

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Silicon Valley aims its tech at helping low-income kids get beyond high school

The Hechinger Report

What they lack is college-educated relatives, counselors, role models or mentors to make sure they take the courses and meet the deadlines they need to, or who encourage them to think about their further educations. Fewer than one in five children of parents without higher educations end up getting degrees. Higher Education.

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Can the Right Nudge Help Low-income Kids Go Beyond High School?

MindShift

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up here for our higher-education newsletter. Only later did he become an educator. NEWARK, Calif. — “Where do you want to go to college?” He’s right.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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Digital Transformation and Innovation in Rural School Districts

edWeb.net

Wherever the location, funding is always a challenge for educational leaders. While rural school districts face many obstacles, especially as they move education into the digital world, they have some opportunities that might differ from large, urban communities. from The University of Mississippi in educational leadership.

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Getting Stakeholders to Back the Edtech Budget

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in educational computing from the University of North Texas. Dr. Levett began her career in Savannah as a speech and language pathologist and moved to positions in leadership including Secondary Principal, Chief Academic Officer, Deputy Superintendent, and interim Superintendent. Brubaker has CoSN CETL certification and a Ph.D.

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The Cost Trap, Concluding Thoughts

Iterating Toward Openness

My long term goals in advocating for OER are to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners and (2) radically improve access to education worldwide. This is why, a few posts ago, I stated that “the question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?”

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