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10-1-12: Running Maryland's Schools
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It’s October 1st—Maryland’s 860-thousand public-school pupils are approximately one month into the school year. Their state superintendent, Lillian Lowery, is three months into her new job. Dr. Lowery began her four-year contract in July, moving from Delaware where she’d been education secretary for three years. She’s also worked as a teacher and a principal.
Maryland’s school system is roughly seven times the size of Delaware’s, which she led for three years. She talks with Sheilah about her plans to scale up, as well as Maryland's use of a brand new curriculum, called the Common Core, its waiver from No Child Left Behind, and incorporating student test scores into teacher evaluations.
Another part of No Child Left Behind required low-performing schools to hire outside tutors. Here, in this web extra, Lillian Lowery talks about the role tutoring should play in schools.
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