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

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In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. The company was renamed “Amplify.” I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C.

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Looking Past COVID: Science Education Post Pandemic

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Principal among them is pairing professional learning with quality materials to advance teacher practice in the classroom. Assessment. Dr. Lazzaro explained that it’s essential to move beyond traditional assessments (taking a test and getting a score) to design those that align better with what the NGSS recommends for science literacy.