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PROOF POINTS: Tracing Black-white achievement gaps since the Brown decision

The Hechinger Report

The long-term assessment format changed in 2004, which is why you’ll notice some spikes or kinks for that year in the graphs below.) Students are expected to have learned to read by age 9, which corresponds to third or fourth grade in elementary school. The gap between white and Black students hasn't improved much since 2008.

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ChatGPT with My Students

User Generated Education

As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). To use GLTR, a piece of text simply copy and pasted into the input box and anaylze is hit to generate a report. Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues. Boy, have times thankfully changed, but I have not.

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PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach

The Hechinger Report

Then the 2008 recession slashed school art budgets even more. 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. The post PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem. ” Teaching aide Hannah Chancey faces the same problem in second grade classrooms at Rehobeth Elementary School in a small low-income community in southeastern Alabama, a state with reading scores near the bottom nationally.

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PROOF POINTS: 10 of the most popular stories about education research in 2020

The Hechinger Report

They are listed in the order of popularity — by the number of times readers viewed them on our website, The Hechinger Report. This year, I put a special focus on pandemic relevant topics, from the effectiveness of tutoring to helping struggling learners catch up to lessons learned from the 2008 recession. Will history repeat?

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

2004; Vescio, Ross, and Adams, 2008 ; The Wallace Foundation, 2012): A vision of academic success for all students based on high expectations. 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ). 2008): Successful Collaboration. 2004; The Wallace Foundation, 2012 ). A safe and cooperative climate for learning.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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