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The Simple View of Reading: What You Need to Know

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Cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, and education experts have studied literacy development for decades, creating a wealth of data for educators. Developed by Hollis Scarborough in 2001, it extends the Simple View by identifying subskills in both language comprehension and word recognition. Scarborough’s Reading Rope.

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PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

But when the researchers broke the data down by state, the neat correlation between reading and comprehension fell apart. It’s perplexing,” said Elena Forzani, an assistant professor of education at Boston University, in reaction to this reading data, which is still unpublished but was presented at two education conferences in April 2021. “We

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White men have the edge in the school principal pipeline, researchers say

The Hechinger Report

Only 11 percent are Black and 9 percent are Latino, according to federal data. The study tracked a group of 4,700 assistant principals, who constitute the main recruiting ground for principals, from 2001 to 2017 in Texas. Educators who run U.S. schools aren’t a diverse group. Forty-five percent of them became principals.

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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. Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. In the schools without art, 14.5

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PROOF POINTS: Should parents value academic achievement or academic growth in a school?

The Hechinger Report

The devilish details of this data matter. Data on student achievement, such as average test scores, prompted a preference for school districts that are wealthier and more white, researchers found in the new online study. A fourth group, which saw only the demographic and income data, was used as a comparison.

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PROOF POINTS: Debunking the myth that teachers stop improving after five years

The Hechinger Report

Papay cited his own 2015 study with Matt Kraft , along with a 2017 study of middle school teachers in North Carolina and a 2011 study of elementary and middle school teacher s. The data are unclear after year 15. . That is, the cohort of rookie teachers in 2001 were just as effective as the cohort of rookie teachers in 2009.

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PROOF POINTS: Criminal behavior rises among those left behind by school lotteries

The Hechinger Report

These boys racked up more arrests and days behind bars when more of their elementary school classmates left. Charlotte introduced public school choice a few years after busing ended in 2001. The increase in criminal behavior was detected among white children and children with higher test scores.