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Former Superintendent of the Year Mark Edwards to Join Discovery Education

Marketplace K-12

school district since 2007, will be the senior vice president of digital learning for the Silver Spring, Md.-based See also: Superintendent of the Year Emphasized Tech, Reduced Dropouts. Edwards, who has been superintendent of the Mooresville, N.C., based company. Educators Study Digital Conversion in Mooresville, N.C.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

That there aren’t enough seats in schools like Essex Tech for every student who wants one is a credit to the model, and to career and technical education’s evolution, said David Driscoll, who served as Massachusetts’ education commissioner from 1999 to 2007.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

There are gifted dropouts. So, in 2007, then-Chancellor Joel Klein announced a uniform admissions process based on a single test with a citywide cutoff — and the inequities grew deeper. The National Association for Gifted Children defines its target group as kids whose “ability is significantly above the norm for their age.”

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