The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The wake-up call came in 2007. The National Assessment Governing Board report points to several key strategies that have led to these achievements: 1. Mississippi created new academic standards that are more rigorous and better-aligned to national expectations for students. Subscribe today!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. She was responsible for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education. She began to criticize them and to criticize the federal law called “No child left behind.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

No one taught her these strategies. A study in 2007 found that general education teachers in a teacher preparation program reported taking an average of 1.5 When she got a job teaching special education six years ago, she relied on strategies she learned while working as an aide in a class for students with autism.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

They are roughly half of the students enrolled at Longview’s specialized elementary school, which has higher academic standards. By many accounts , the turning point came when James Wilcox was hired as superintendent in 2007. A strategy with a Montessori in mind.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Nationwide, about 65 percent of public high schools reported offering opportunities for students to participate in work-based learning during the 2007-08 school year, the last year data on the topic was collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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