Andrew R. Smarick, 40, appointed last year by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, was unanimously elected Tuesday by the 12-member policy-making body and will serve a one-year term.
Smarick is a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit that works to improve K-12 education for low-income students, and recently served on the Commission to Review Maryland’s Use of Assessments and Testing in Public Schools, which issued recommendations earlier this month.
Soure: The Washington Post
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In November of 2013, the Gates Foundation gave a grant to Bellwether Education Partners.
http://www.gatesfoundation. org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/ Grants-Database/Grants/2013/ 11/OPP1096128
Bellwether Education Partners, Inc.
November
2013
to support CoreSpring, an initiative to build a bank of shared Common Core aligned formative item and assessment resources that assure improved discoverability, availability and interoperability
$1,981,978 24
College Ready
United States
Sudbury, Massachusetts
to support CoreSpring, an initiative to build a bank of shared Common Core aligned formative item and assessment resources that assure improved discoverability, availability and interoperability
$1,981,978 24
College Ready
United States
Sudbury, Massachusetts
A recent article from another State Board of Education member, the very pro-charter Chester Finn: http://www.hoover.org/research/education-reform-decouples
ReplyDeleteThe novel common core
ReplyDeleteResults in eye sore
And kids say no more
Because it is a bore.
The day Finn & Smarick were appointed was the day I began looking in earnest for a home outside Maryland.
ReplyDeleteStill haven't found the right one, plus it'd be hard to pull up roots here, but....Finn & Smarick!