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- ↑ "About Us – CCCOER". www.cccoer.org. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
- ↑ "About". Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources. 2008-02-16. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ↑ Resmovits, Joy (13 August 2013). "Another Key Obama Administration Departure". HuffPost. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ↑ "Meet the Team -- Martha Kanter". College Promise. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
- ↑ Glatter, Hayley. "Why Martha Kanter Says Free College Is About More Than Money". Community College Research Center. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
