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Pearson Deal with Montgomery County Public Schools: All Your Content Are Belong To Us

Yesterday the Washington Post ran an article titled “Global firm to pay Montgomery, Md., schools millions for elementary curriculum.” Essentially, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) have signed a deal with Pearson, the global publishing behemoth, under which MCPS will develop educational curriculum and transfer the copyright to Pearson. In exchange, Pearson will pay $2.25 million, [...]

Association of American Publishers continues its campaign of textbook (mis)information

The Open Educational Resource movement, based on the idea that educational content which is publicly licensed for modification and redistribution is a positive innovation in education, has just begun to break into the mainstream. Conceptually, the idea has been in the public sphere for years now with projects like the OpenCourseWare growing to over 200 [...]