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Council of the Great City Schools Selects Dr. Lily Wong Fillmore as the 2023 Recipient of the Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice

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in linguistics from Stanford University, was a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Education from 1974 to 2004. Fillmore, who received her Ph.D. During this time, she focused much of her research, teaching, and writing on issues related to the education of multilingual learners.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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Before joining the faculty at UCLA he served as a tenured professor and holder of endowed chairs at New York University (2004–2015), Harvard University (2000–2003), and the University of California, Berkeley (1990–2000). Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Thursday with Howard Blumenthal - "What About My Job at School?" #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. From 1997 to 2004, she was a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the federal testing program. Department of Education.

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The Inconvenient Truths About Assessment

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This can mean that it’s often easier to assess something other than an academic standard than it is knowledge of the standard itself. High expectations–if personalized and attainable–can promote persistence in students (Brophy 2004). Student self-assessment is tricky, but a key matter of understanding.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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A friend recently read a 2004 Harvard Business School case study of Wireless Generation’s work in Montgomery County, Maryland, and responded: “Thanks! As principals do classroom walkthroughs, they look for specific instruction based in the curriculum, rather than an academic standard dutifully written on the chalkboard but ignored.

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‘They just saw me as a dollar sign’: How some certificate schools profit from vulnerable students

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The company posted more than $175 million in profits between 2004 and 2014, according to a 2016 lawsuit filed by a former company CEO who alleged that he was owed bonus pay. The suit also alleged that Premier had misled potential students about job placement rates and pressured staff to “renounce all academic standards.”.

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