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Gene Shackman's suggestions of what to include, "when posting questions like 'how do I'" (¶1).

"The new MERLOT Smart Search extends access to online learning materials well beyond MERLOT's curated and peer reviewed collection. Smart Search helps to answer the pervasive and nagging question, "Where can I find OERs?'" (MERLOT Webmaster, One Stop Searching for All Your OER Needs!, ¶1, 2017.03.30 [JST]).

Essays on this Schooling the World resource page (2014.10.06) include: The Other Way of Knowing To Hell With Good Intentions Education is Ignorance Do Indigenous Peoples Benefit from "Development?" Indigenising Curriculum: Questions Posed by Baiga Vidya Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing Childhood in an Indian Village

"Washback becomes negative when learners spend so much time preparing for exams that they do not develop the actual skills and abilities those tests are meant to measure, thereby calling into question the very validity (and wisdom) of the tests themselves."

"The number of upper secondary school graduates in Japan has declined by 38 per cent since 1990, when the country's previously booming economy began to flatline, and job vacancies outnumber applicants by more than 60 per cent. Such factors have prompted questions about the country's ability to maintain a workforce capable of paying off the world's largest public debt; Japan's government owes around two-and-a-half times what its entire economy produces each year" (¶4, 2018.11.26).

A wake up call to use available know-how to save millions of human lives and trillions of dollars that future outbreaks could take.