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Setting the Context: The Big Picture

  • Universal Challenge for Elementary and Secondary Education
    • Improving student academic achievement in Reading and Mathematics.
    • Improving achievement for "disadvantaged students".
  • Common Commitments
    • Meeting the academic needs of all students.
    • Meeting the needs of sub-population groups most at-risk of not meeting national or State standards.
    • Identifying and implementing instructional strategies that hold a high promise of meeting the academic needs of students and in closing the gaps in student achievement.
  • Common Environments
    • High expectations, increasing concentration of "high cost" students and dwindling resources.

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