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PROOF POINTS: Researchers blast data analysis for teachers to help students 

The Hechinger Report

That was the idea behind the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis.

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PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

Since then, scholars have been trying to figure out why their scores dropped so much between 2017 and 2019 on a highly regarded national test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP. In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school.

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ISTE 2018: 5 Best Practices for Adhering to Federal Privacy Laws

EdTech Magazine

The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) was established in 2001 with the No Child Left Behind Act and is known for its provisions dealing with surveys and assessments.

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PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach

The Hechinger Report

Arts classes were further squeezed out after a 2001 federal law required schools to test children annually. The researchers also detected an increase in students’ compassion for others, or emotional empathy, based on student surveys. Arts education steadily increased throughout most of the 20th century. In the schools without art, 14.5

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Resources for Teachers and Instructional Coaches – April 2022

Edthena

Professional knowledge consists of an in-depth understanding of subject matter, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and knowledge of students and their communities to raise student achievement. The last component of reflective practice is constructing professional knowledge through both formal and informal teaching networks.

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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

Based on a survey of families with children ages 3 to 13 and with incomes below the national median of $75,000, the report determined that, in 2021, 1 in 7 children do not have broadband internet at home, leaving them either unconnected or with poor quality connections. Shawn Lambert, Brunswick School Department.

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Higher education in India is moving ahead on the global stage.

Linways Technologies

India has seen a massive expansion in the higher education sector – an almost four-fold increase in enrolments and institutions since 2001. Between 1996 and 2001, India and China had similar GERs. There are employability surveys which measure skills required in a workplace. Although lower than the global average of 36.7%