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MARCH 27, 2023

Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice. in linguistics from Stanford University, was a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Education from 1974 to 2004. Fillmore is the third recipient of the Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice.

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Advocacy Academic Standards Instructional Materials Education 94

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Since the 1990s, education stories emanating from Massachusetts have largely been positive, but that started to change over the last decade. The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Related: U.S.

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Common Core Academic Standards Comparison Report 122

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

One recent whitepaper linked the practice to preparing kids for the long road of schooling ahead , in which progress is measured through standardized testing starting in third grade. Across the country, kindergarteners are pressured to meet academic standards that both teachers and experts say many kids are developmentally not ready for.

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Meeting Academic Standards Classroom Assessment 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services. Between 2010 to 2015, venture capitalists poured $2.3

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

The state of New Hampshire has been gradually shifting toward competency-based education (CBE) for two decades. Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system.

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 78

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Since Kentucky became the first state to adopt the Common Core in 2010, the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers has widened slightly – despite sweeping expectations the more rigorous standards would help eliminate disparities in academic performance. Reframing expectations. But we do.”.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 53

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

10 Percent — Yearly increase in the percent of students achieving basic scores on state tests required by No Child Left Behind Act in 2010. They tended to cite a combination of their own optimism coupled with pressure from state officials, who in turn were pressured to meet the federal educational goals set in No Child Left Behind.

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