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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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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! The State of the K-12 Sector The edtech boom of the past two decades promised efficacy and new instructional models. In some ways, Amplify has returned to its roots.