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Open educational resources--textbooks, curricula, video lectures and more that are released, usually online, under Creative Commons license for free sharing and reuse--have been at the forefront of the movement for higher education innovation. They're a key part of the Obama administration's national education technology plan ; in January, the Department of Ed created a $2 billion grant program to fund open community college textbooks and other materials.

As children settle into their classrooms for the beginning of a new school year, parents steel themselves for the pending battle. Mothers and fathers know well that their youngsters would rather pay attention to one another than to the blackboard. But parents may not realize that the reasons children struggle with education lie deep in our evolutionary past