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Learning

Achievement Gap Goes Global

Achievement gap? Which one? It’s not just inner-city schools that need to raise their game. Even our best suburban schools fall short in the international student achievement sweepstakes, says Arthur Levine, former president of Columbia Teachers College (“The Suburban Education Gap,” WSJ 11/15/12).

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Learning

Donald Duck’s Typewriter: The Craft and Art of Technology

“In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores” chided the front-page headline of the Sunday New York Times September 4. Center page, above the fold, in living color, the article skewered a hapless K-8 school district in Arizona that has spent $33 million on technology without seeing any improvement in test scores. Three...

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EdTech

The JFYNet Theory of Transformative Change

Gary Kaplan, CEO of JFYNet, says his org has provided math and science instruction to more than 30,000 students in middle and high schools throughout Massachusetts. Working in high-need districts with the most challenging students, he says they have achieved measurable performance gains year after year, within all subg...

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