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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

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HBCUs have long played a pivotal role in the United States. Grants to HBCUs have deep, broad, and long-lasting impacts on society HBCU staff and student participants in the qualitative research all highlighted that HBCUs’ history and legacy are rooted in creating safe spaces for Black scholars.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. government and states like Texas.

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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

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copyright law. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law. which get Bookshare at no cost when serving students with qualifying disabilities (thanks to funding from the Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education).

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

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So, the student might be able to read only 60% of the relevant content, and have no idea about what the equations say. Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty. Amazon now ships more ebooks than print books in the United States.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

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Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion. The Bookshare promise to American students with disabilities is that if they need a book for education, Bookshare will ensure that they have it.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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He would play me a 90’s punk song, and I’d download Pat Benatar (saying, I had music like that when I was your age). We have over half a million readers in the United States, and over 625,000 different ebook titles available for instant download. I had never heard of it. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

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In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. In 2004, the United States passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , requiring schools to provide special education services to eligible students.

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