News & Issues
Louisiana will be a pioneer in the use of PARCC's new flexible model of assessment. The state's Department of Education recently decided to use content from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers to make up just under half of the content for its summative tests in this school year. MoreThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed grants of $34.7 million over three years to help set up five teacher preparation transformation centers around the country that will bring together people from universities, teacher-preparation providers and K-12 school systems to share data, knowledge and best practices. MoreSierra College in the Sacramento suburb of Rocklin held the third annual Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW) event. More
A $34,000 grant from Raytheon helped 25 teachers learn more about how to teach engineering concepts to elementary school students. MoreThe state of Mississippi has decided to go with the same assessment vendor it uses for its statewide assessments to do summative testing of students with severe cognitive disabilities as well. More
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