Dangerously Irrelevant
JUNE 19, 2016
Considering that these data don’t include dropouts, it seems safe to say that no more than one in three American high-school students is capable of hitting the College Board’s benchmark. In these states in 2015, the percentage of students averaging at least 500 on the reading section ranged from 33 percent (in D.C.) via [link].
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 28, 2016
It was as predictable as night following day that this week’s release of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress would be followed by weeping and gnashing of teeth on a biblical scale. Each assessment also covers slightly different curriculum content. Related: When fourth-grade problems include gunfire.
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Marketplace K-12
JUNE 30, 2016
school district since 2007, will be the senior vice president of digital learning for the Silver Spring, Md.-based I worked for two years as vice president of business development at Harcourt Assessment, but left that job to join Mooresville. See also: Superintendent of the Year Emphasized Tech, Reduced Dropouts. based company.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 7, 2018
In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient. Louisiana had long erred on the side of social promotion, often passing underachievers through school despite low reading and math levels.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 16, 2018
That there aren’t enough seats in schools like Essex Tech for every student who wants one is a credit to the model, and to career and technical education’s evolution, said David Driscoll, who served as Massachusetts’ education commissioner from 1999 to 2007.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 26, 2020
Wright, a professor of economics at Western Washington University, behavioral assessments of black students in the classroom significantly improve when they have a black teacher rather than a white teacher. In addition to academic gains, black students taught by black teachers exhibited better behavioral outcomes.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2020
There are gifted dropouts. By that, the students knew, their teacher meant one of the psychologist Dr. Edward de Bono’s six “thinking hats,” specifically the one that called on thinkers to assess their ideas and look for potential flaws. Black hat,” Valenti-Barone instructed them, “add a few more details.”.
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