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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. Videos of selected LINC sessions are archived and available. Thank you, Steve, for your wonderful leadership (and the delicious breakfast)! College textbooks can currently run upwards of $200 each, and the average student now spends $1200 per year in texts. I hope we can do it again soon!

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Learn more about: Americanizing Luakini: White Supremacy Colonizing the Hawaiian Nation State

Political Science Now

His research excavating the largest indigenous language archive in the early 19th century reveals a different history from the present understanding about Hawaii today. Tourism as an economic component of genocide continue to target native Hawaiians for removal today.

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The habits of 7 highly effective schools

The Hechinger Report

“There are many schools that are effective at helping students learn, even in high-poverty communities,” said Sean Reardon, a Stanford sociologist who was part of the team that developed the Stanford Education Data Archive. This is exactly what we hoped people would do with the data.”

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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. Kirk] Yes, Selingo teaches higher ed leadership at Arizona State University, and he’s author of the book Who Gets In and Why. And how did the whole process become so anxiety-inducing? Kirk] This is College Uncovered.

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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.

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Sir Ken Robinson: A Brief In Memoriam [guest post]

Dangerously Irrelevant

And, research has shown economic mobility, achieving higher standards of living than your parents, has declined as inequality in America continues to grow. A majority of us are economically vulnerable. Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Kentucky. Director, Center for Next Generation Leadership.

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A community college promises a rural county it ‘hasn’t been left to die’

The Hechinger Report

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. Economic uncertainty in the 1990s and 2000s forced fluctuations in demand. We want to build leadership in these communities,” she said. They’re doers.

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