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== Notes ==
== Notes ==


=== Follow-up E-mail Links and Comments ===
== Follow-up E-mail Links and Comments ==
'''Hal Plotkin''', Special Assistant, Office of the Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
In no particular order…please see:
*Was involved with the initiative in California from the beginning, also Martha Kanter (Under Secretary for Education)
* http://www.plotkin.com/blog-archives/2006/12/oped_in_san_jos.html
*Has been recently involved with the President Obama's American Graduation Initiative
* http://www.plotkin.com/blog-archives/2007/03/news_flash_rusk_1.html
* http://www.plotkin.com/blog-archives/2006/03/sacramento_hear.html
* http://www.plotkin.com/blog-archives/2009/03/free_textbooks_1.html
* http://www.halplotkin.com/SFgate001.htm  (about distance learning in general but last sections may offer a way to drive home the point we are trying to make - what excuse do we have for not using all the tools at our disposal to increase education attainment levels?)
* http://www.halplotkin.com/SFGate056.htm
* http://fhdafiles.fhda.edu/downloads/homefhda/PlotkinKanterPDtestimony.pdf
* http://www.plotkin.com/blog-archives/2004/10/creating_public.html
* http://www.halplotkin.com/OpenLettertoFoothillDeAnzaFaculty.htm


'''Generally...'''
:"One other thing I’d add on the legislative front, which is a historical perspective. Years (decades) ago there developed a strong alliance between textbook publishers and progressive democrats as the publishers battled issues such as attempts to ban certain books, to restrict the books that public libraries could purchase, to dictate content of certain textbooks in the sciences, etc. - all of which led to a tight alliance between textbook publishers, their lobbyists and the democratic party. This historic alliance is in many ways and in many places still in place and its effect on the outcome of legislative proposals to advance OER is uncertain."
*Representatives at the Hewlett Foundation and other major funders of OER initiatives.
*Executives at CK-12, Connexions, and others who submitted materials


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Revision as of 13:43, 10 August 2009

Conducted with Erhardt Graeff and Carolina Rossini via telephone on August 10, 2009, concerning California's 2009 Free Digital Textbook Initiative and Obama's American Graduation Initiative

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Follow-up E-mail Links and Comments

In no particular order…please see:

"One other thing I’d add on the legislative front, which is a historical perspective. Years (decades) ago there developed a strong alliance between textbook publishers and progressive democrats as the publishers battled issues such as attempts to ban certain books, to restrict the books that public libraries could purchase, to dictate content of certain textbooks in the sciences, etc. - all of which led to a tight alliance between textbook publishers, their lobbyists and the democratic party. This historic alliance is in many ways and in many places still in place and its effect on the outcome of legislative proposals to advance OER is uncertain."

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