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OER / ZTC Advocates Have an AI Problem

Iterating Toward Openness

At some point over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) advocacy in US higher education became zero textbook costs (ZTC) advocacy. This is why I refer to this line of advocacy as “free no matter the cost.” There are plenty of practical reasons why this might have happened.

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The Impact of Creativity on College and Career Readiness

Edsurge

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? For example, students can create a portfolio of their work and emphasize what they have learned through collaboration and creativity.

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Why Schools Still Struggle to Provide Enough Mental Health Resources for Students

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We know many districts wanted to use ESSER funds to hire more staff, but workforce shortages prevented them from doing so,” Vaillancourt Strobach says, referring to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. The deadline to spend pandemic relief funds has indeed started the countdown to the end of some school-based services.

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Every Person Counts: How the 2020 U.S. Census Could Impact Adult Education

Digital Promise

The National Literacy Council’s website also has an extensive list of helpful resources for teaching and learning, programs, and advocacy. States with large recent and growing immigrant populations, for example, are at risk of a more pronounced undercount, according to the Population Reference U.S. Census Bureau (PRB).

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A Teacher’s Guide to Toxic Stress in the Classroom

Waterford

2] Children who experience toxic stress, for example, are more likely to develop the following mental and physical illnesses later on:[3]. 4] For example, children with toxic stress are more likely to fit the parameters for chronic absenteeism , or excessive school absences.[6] Cardiovascular disease. Certain cancers. Depression.

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Yes, Schools Need to Hire More Counselors. But They Also Need to Work on Themselves.

Edsurge

School systems, such as rules, policies, and procedures, can cause trauma and harm, for example, harsh discipline policies that refer children to the criminal justice system for behavior in school. I remember simply replying, “Cool, thanks for letting me know!”

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

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It would be so easy for people to just say, ‘well, they're probably not college material,’” Odle said, referring to non-submitters. For the 2017-18 academic season, for example, 71 percent of Common App users who did not submit an application through the platform still attended college within the next academic year, according to the analysis.

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