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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. Our audience was greatly interested in exploring these resources.

Education 261
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PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

The Hechinger Report

An international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that students who had more books at home reported that they enjoyed reading more. Simultaneously, reading performance around the world, which had been slowly improving up until 2012, declined between 2012 and 2018.

Economics 145
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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

“It gets people’s attention anytime you say, ‘Free,’ ” said Jimmy Kidd, the director of admissions, who spoke between in-person student orientation sessions in the library of the school’s downtown Louisville campus in late June. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

Economics 144
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University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year

The Hechinger Report

In addition to its reputation as an international powerhouse in the field of economics and a home to multiple Nobel Laureates, the school has grounds that are designated as an official botanic garden. The University of Chicago moved its economics department into the former home of the Chicago Theological Seminary.

Economics 102
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Linear Model Diagnostics by IR Example

Steven V. Miller

One of those data sets is from a 2012 publication by Benjamin J. Loyle in Journal of Peace Research on the economic benefits of post-conflict justice. Appel and Loyle (2012) are proposing that scholars interested in the variation in net FDI inflows have only looked at net FDI inflows from an economic perspective.

Library 52
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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. When you think about the future economics of the world, it’s not an English world.”. That’s what made it difficult,” she says.

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OPINION: Why creating and maintaining accessible digital resources is neither easy nor optional

The Hechinger Report

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. At ITHAKA , we introduced accessibility compliance into the JSTOR online library of scholarly journals in 2000, recognizing that this move would be consistent with JSTOR’s non-profit mission of furthering access to scholarly resources. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report.