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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

2011 at InterACT – Martha Infante « InterACT

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2011 at InterACT – Martha Infante

Martha Infante preparing to speak to the USDOE Equity and Excellence Commission, ( San Jose, CA; 4/21/11)

Martha Infante preparing to speak to the USDOE Equity and Excellence Commission, ( San Jose, CA; 4/21/11)

I’m going to take some liberties in putting together an end-of-year page for Martha Infante, because I think the most significant blogging she did on InterACT was a series of posts that started in 2010 and ran well into 2011 before concluding. Back in the fall of 2010, Martha’s school was slapped with a label and declared a “failing school.” Such labels are gross over-simplifications, and as I wrote about earlier this year, when the term “failure” is linked to adequate yearly progress (AYP) under No Child Left Behind, it’s becoming an increasingly useless distinction. Martha’s posts on this topic have allowed readers to see behind the label, to look at the