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Former Superintendent of the Year Mark Edwards to Join Discovery Education

Marketplace K-12

school district since 2007, will be the senior vice president of digital learning for the Silver Spring, Md.-based Discovery Education provides digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms around the world. See also: Superintendent of the Year Emphasized Tech, Reduced Dropouts. based company.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. HATHORNE, Mass. — Xerras said afterward.).

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