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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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After retiring from the Berkeley faculty, Fillmore has worked with educators in urban school districts to improve academic language and literacy instruction for English learners and multilingual learners. To learn more about Curriculum Associates, visit CurriculumAssociates.com.

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New report underscores education problems in institutions for foster youth

The Hechinger Report

The advocacy groups are calling for greater state oversight of these facilities, which were the topic of an investigation last month by The Hechinger Report/HuffPost. It also cites lack of compliance with special education laws and other concerns.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

10 Percent — Yearly increase in the percent of students achieving basic scores on state tests required by No Child Left Behind Act in 2010. Shahan said that it became even harder for charters to reach their projected scores when the state stiffened its academic standards, creating more difficult versions of the state test starting in 2013.

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Ohio shutting down its clearinghouse for online lessons

eSchool News

That has been the value of the clearinghouse, he said; not only pointing teachers and others toward online lessons to fit state academic standards, but providing an Ohio-specific seal of approval. “We The clearinghouse was in the news recently when ProgressOhio, a liberal advocacy group, charged that officials of Gov.