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A Change in the Culture of Learning at Gauger-Cobbs Middle
December 21st, 2010
In 2008, Gauger-Cobbs Middle School joined the Vision Network to enhance the intensive academic and cultural supports that Principal Dr. Amy Grundy had been putting into place. Under Dr. Grundy’s leadership, Gauger-Cobbs had secured a grant from The Wallace Foundation and the State of Delaware in 2005 that brought a framework of distributed...VIEW ARTICLE
Common core, common assessments…common curriculum?
December 20th, 2010
The Common Core has demonstrated the power of what a voluntary, state-driven initiative can accomplish: more efficient use of resources, cross-state comparisons, and students who can compete worldwide. The new frontier is student assessment, led by state-based assessment consortia (SBAC and PARCC) to develop systems and item banks that can...VIEW ARTICLE
Can we be the next Kalamazoo?
December 20th, 2010
Kalamazoo, Michigan is not a place you hear of often. Yet back in 2005, something happened that changed everything for the unassuming town of 80,000: “The Kalamazoo Promise,” an anonymously established and endowed offering to public school graduates of tuition at any Michigan public university or college. Five years later, what...VIEW ARTICLE