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OPEN UP RESOURCES RELEASES ITS FIRST FREE OER CURRICULUM

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It is the first curriculum made openly available by Open Up Resources, which was founded to develop new high-quality alternatives to curricula offered by traditional publishers, and to increase equity in education by distributing these materials freely, as OER.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

An op-ed in Inside Higher Ed from EAB’s Melanie Hoe : “What the Purdue-Kaplan Deal Means for You.” ” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.” Via The New York Times : “ New York to Shorten Standardized Tests in Elementary and Middle Schools.” ” Fox. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The NAACP endorses OER. Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. .” (“What do we really know about the value of prekindergarten?” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Or something else?