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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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Instead, a more innovative and agile approach is needed to help today’s wide range of students recover from the pandemic and achieve more equitable outcomes. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner. He is also a senior fellow at the International Center for Leadership in Education.

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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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Specifically she worries that some companies have made their products a “black box” that professors and researchers can’t understand or control. Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education who previously worked in the private sector, stresses that she’s not against software companies.

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). Passed in 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act was the centerpiece of President George W.

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Rangatiratanga: How Tapping Into New Zealand’s Indigenous Concepts Sparked New Educational Gains

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Teachers and researchers are measuring student engagement in learning outcomes, not absences from school. Finally in 2001, the school leadership and the parents jointly engaged in a painful analysis that lead to a profound conclusion: If we don’t change, the results won’t change. Education results plummeted along with employment.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999. Julene also works with Suumu Secondary School and Roots & Shoots in Tanzania. Next in the Festival Five family series came Night Time! Father Goose).Sea

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In charter-school oversight, as in foreign affairs: Trust, but verify

The Hechinger Report

It’s the accountability side that is especially worrisome—accountability both for student outcomes and for the stewardship of public dollars. Eight board members are currently CEOs, seven have founded non-profits, and 11 have founded companies. Three recent investigations raise questions. Impressive, to be sure.