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The first article of the July 1 2009 ASCD Smart Brief was a good news story on school improvement: Math educators at a struggling Florida elementary school locked away their textbooks before the start of last year, rewriting the curriculum themselves in an approach that helped them post large gains on state tests and raised their school’s grade from a D to a B.
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Weiss, J., Brown, R.S. (2013). Time Structures and the Canons of Testing. In: Telling Tales Over Time. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-263-1_6
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