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Maine high school education to address today's needs

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RI Enters Race for Federal Education Grant - Providence Journal

States Said to Lag in Using Data Systems Well - Ed Week

Per-pupil cost just 1 way to measure - Nashua Telegraph

Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning- Ed Week

Let the Learning Continue - American Camp Association

Experts Say a Rewrite of Nation’s Main Education Law Will Be Hard This Year - NY Times

NMEF Today	Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Including Performance Assessments in Accountability Systems: A Review of Scale-up Efforts
The Nellie Mae Education and the Center for Collaborative Education are proud to bring you this field review. The purpose of this review is to understand previous efforts at scaling up the use of performance assessments across districts and states. Through systematic description and comparison of seven large-scale initiatives, as well as analogous efforts from teacher certification, medicine, and law, the paper identifies the strengths and vulnerabilities in each initiative.
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Connecticut Joins New England Secondary School Consortium
Connecticut has announced that it will be the 5th state to join the Consortium, which is funded by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Catalyst for Change Awards and Website Proposals
The staff of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation would like to thank everyone who submitted applications for our Catalyst for Change Awards. We'll be announcing the winners in early 2010.
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What do Americans think about public education?
The FrameWorks Institute's initial findings reveal that the American public struggles to understand the current public education system or think constructively about its reform.
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