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Former Superintendent of the Year Mark Edwards to Join Discovery Education

Marketplace K-12

Superintendent Mark Edwards talked about the Mooresville Graded School District’s experiences integrating technology into K-12 education during the 2013 Summer Connection in Mooresville, N.C. school district since 2007, will be the senior vice president of digital learning for the Silver Spring, Md.-based Credit: John W.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

That there aren’t enough seats in schools like Essex Tech for every student who wants one is a credit to the model, and to career and technical education’s evolution, said David Driscoll, who served as Massachusetts’ education commissioner from 1999 to 2007. Gabriella Okparaoko, a junior at Essex Tech in the Automotive Technology program.

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

The Hechinger Report

There are gifted dropouts. By that, the students knew, their teacher meant one of the psychologist Dr. Edward de Bono’s six “thinking hats,” specifically the one that called on thinkers to assess their ideas and look for potential flaws. Technology is a wonderful, wonderful thing. You are working so hard to get—”.

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