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The Role of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Making Education Available to All

A Principal's Reflections

The economics are staggering. For more discussion on the role of OER in education, read “The Massive Open Online Professor,” by Steve and Philipp from the May, 2012, volume of Academic Matters: a Journal of Higher Education. Videos of selected LINC sessions are archived and available.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on Aug. In 2012, they started selling wealth management products, the borrowers’ debts bundled by the platform, to the lenders.

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College Uncovered: Tag, You’re In!

The Hechinger Report

Archival newsreel sound] There were a group of congressmen with long memories who were in the last war. In fact, the median acceptance rate at four-year universities was about 8 percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012. And how did the whole process become so anxiety-inducing? Kirk] This is College Uncovered.

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Olukunle Owolabi Receives the 2024 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for “Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects”

Political Science Now

The selection committee was impressed by Owolabi’s skillful use of multiple methodological tools including large-scale statistical analysis and comparative historical analysis based on extensive original archival research across multiple continents. University of Notre Dame, 2012). He holds degrees in International Relations (B.A.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions. David Graeber speaks at a panel in 2012.

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COLUMN: Now imagine if your school closed for good

The Hechinger Report

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Whatever the reason a school has to close, something needs to fill the educational, economic, and social voids created by the closure. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

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Obama says failing to help everyone will drag down the economy. Here’s how research shows that’s true

The Hechinger Report

This story from the Hechinger archive lays out what researchers project will happen if there is not an increase in the number of nonwhites going to and through college. In his final news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama said that the entire economy could be affected if people of all backgrounds are now supported.