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

The Hechinger Report

Though the state definition of proficiency is changing, for years proficiency was measured by how many students reached a passing, or “basic” score on the math and English portion of state tests.). Of the dozen or so school leaders interviewed for this article, not one had a definitive answer for why the projections were so inflated.

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Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.

Edsurge

That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., While most educators in our focus groups expressed similar ideas to Flamm, they did not offer one singular definition of making. offers when asked to describe the making-focused lessons and activities that she uses with her students.

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