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Study: Lengthy school closures were especially hard on high-achieving students
To gauge the magnitude of global learning loss during the pandemic, a team at the World Bank examined data from the Program for International Student Assessment, which tests 15-year-olds in math, reading and science, from 2018-22. Among the report’s many notable insights is a counterintuitive finding about outcomes: In countries with the longest closures, high-achieving...
By Brandon L. Wright | April 26, 2024
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189 innovative school leaders: Teacher staffing, AI, mental health top ed issues
A common set of problems are keeping education leaders up at night: Will there be enough teachers to staff America’s schools? Can artificial intelligence enhance learning without deepening inequality? How can educators address the mental health crisis among young people? None of these have easy answers. New data confirm that these issues are top of...
By Chelsea Waite | April 25, 2024
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Why school’s new normal post-COVID must emphasize attendance, tutoring, summer class
Four years after the global COVID shutdowns, the pandemic’s effects are still being felt. Within education, a variety of data sources — including NWEA’s MAP Growth and state, national,and international tests — all show that students today are well behind their peers from four years ago. However, focusing on that type of COVID recovery framework...
By Lindsay Dworkin | April 4, 2024
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If March Madness women’s tourney colleges won for boosting students’ social mobility, UC-Irvine would be champion
It’s a challenge to capture the excitement surrounding this year’s NCAA Division 1 women’s basketball tournament. In the first round, Iowa’s future WNBA star, Caitlin Clark, scored 27 points and had 10 assists to lead the Hawkeyes to victory over the Crusaders of Holy Cross. Not to be outdone, Kiki Iriafen led the Stanford Cardinals...
By Jorge Klor de Alva | April 1, 2024
Schools After COVID: 6 Ways For Districts to Better Engage Parents Amid Concerns About COVID Learning Loss
74 Interview: Why Social Media is Being Blamed for the Youth Suicide Crisis
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Free New AI Tool to Help Americans Search and Compare Student Test Scores Across All 50 States
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March Madness: If the tournament celebrated colleges for moving grads up the income ladder, both California State University Long Beach & San Diego State would make the Sweet 16
With all that’s going wrong around the world, and given the nation’s increasing disillusionment with higher education, it is a special treat for basketball fans to be able to turn their attention to March Madness. For us, it’s time to celebrate athletes and their schools by turning our attention to our alternative bracket to the...
By Jorge Klor de Alva | March 21, 2024
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Analysis: Wrong ideas about teacher pay, happiness may keep students from the profession
Teachers generally like teaching. They stay in their chosen profession about as long as accountants or social workers stay in theirs. Teachers may not get rich, but they live comfortably middle-class lives. Plus, teachers get to retire a couple of years earlier than other workers. Those are some of the positive narratives that policymakers need...
By Chad Aldeman | February 22, 2024
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Under pilot program in Texas & Florida, tutoring fees depend on student progress
Anyone who sells products to public schools can tell you education is a huge market. Schools spend billions of dollars annually on contracts for everything from HVAC maintenance to technology services and tutoring. Almost all agree to pay vendors for goods or services rendered, not for the student outcomes they produce. But, as I wrote...
By Liz Cohen | February 15, 2024
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From California to New Jersey, ‘Nation’s Report Card’ is fueling efforts to close learning gaps worsened by COVID
Alabama recently deployed math coaches to low-performing schools; New Jersey is creating new statewide civics and history assessments; and California leaders are planning major investments in professional development to turn around achievement declines. Those are all efforts fueled by data from the Nation’s Report Card to close learning gaps worsened by the pandemic. It’s encouraging...
By Lesley Muldoon | January 11, 2024
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Emergency-hired teachers do just as well as those who go through normal training
When K-12 schools closed their doors for in-person instruction in spring 2020, it had a variety of negative effects on students and teachers. It also shut off the training opportunities for future educators. In response, states instituted a variety of short-term waivers allowing candidates to teach without fulfilling their normal requirements. Those policies helped candidates...
By Chad Aldeman | January 10, 2024
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How Do Teachers Feel About Their Jobs & the Impact of AI? New Survey Has Answers
Each year, the ed tech company I work for, HMH, conducts a survey designed to understand the obstacles and opportunities teachers and administrators experience. This year’s Educator Confidence Report revealed new insights into how more than 1,200 K-12 teachers are feeling about the profession overall, as well as their attitudes toward generative artificial intelligence —...
By Francie Alexander | December 27, 2023