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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 In 2007, Maine’s then-commissioner, Susan Gendron, invited DeLorenzo to speak at a summer conference for superintendents in Bar Harbor. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts.

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

Preferences can be assessed and individuals can be taught to make choices related to their preferences, thereby minimizing the frustration of seldom being able to choose what is meaningful. Keynote address presented at the annual conference of the Autism Society of America, Scottsdale, Ariz. References. Carr, E.G. (2007a, July).

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Today with Howard Blumenthal - "Paying for School" with Andreas Schleicher #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In addition to our regular LearningRevolution.com conference sessions today (see the schedule in your time zone here ), we have our second show of the weekly interview series " REINVENTING.SCHOOL ," being held live on Thursdays at 4:00 pm US-EDT and hosted by Howard Blumenthal. We hope you will join us. See you "online!"