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- 05-24-2011
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Blog by Secretary Paul Reville/Education Week
I have been working on education reform in Massachusetts for a long time, from my days as a teacher through my current position as Secretary of Education. I am proud of this state's many educational accomplishments and our national leadership on student achievement. I am proud of the teachers, students and leaders who have built and shaped our success story. In spite of our success, I am, nonetheless, regularly startled by what student achievement results tell us about the yawning gap between our educational aspirations and our actual performance. We have been at the business of high standards/high accountability school reform since 1993, and yet we must confront the reality of student outcomes such as these on the 2010 MCAS tests which demonstrate from the earliest grades to the latest grades and across all subjects, our work is far from done. (more...)
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