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OPINION: Four ways that Mississippi is teaching more children to read well

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, the state began requiring future K-6 teachers to take two early literacy courses in their teacher-preparation training. Mississippi’s progress in reading, at a time when many other states’ scores are stagnant or falling, is a prime example of how a state’s long-term commitment to its goals can pay off.

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Study: Holding Kids Back A Grade Doesn’t Necessarily Hold Them Back

MindShift

Now comes a big study to say something different: Holding kids back at third grade when they don’t meet the academic standards will give them a boost in achievement, by some measures. For one thing, they will earn more money on average over a lifetime with that head start into the workforce.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

Before joining the faculty at UCLA he served as a tenured professor and holder of endowed chairs at New York University (2004–2015), Harvard University (2000–2003), and the University of California, Berkeley (1990–2000). Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy.

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

Edsurge

But in a competency-based model, teachers must assess and record a student’s performance on each academic standard within and across subjects. From its founding in 2003, Empower’s team has used custom scripts and queries to pull data from SISs to create exportable files to send to their customers nightly.

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