The Hechinger Report
MAY 21, 2016
It’s been over five years since Kentucky adopted the Common Core, guidelines for what students need to know in math and the English language arts in each grade. Related: Common Core ignores underprivileged students — and testing will lead to more achievement gaps. based research group.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
When we dug into the data, we noticed that a sizable percentage of kids were just missing the benchmark—they were one, two, three points below,” says Hope Langston, Northfield’s Director of Assessment Services. The study found that students in 1960 and 2011 read at similar rates in second grade.
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A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 22, 2015
Image credit: https://larrycuban.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/parents.jpg Unfortunately there is a growing rhetoric and sentiment that the education system in America is broken and our teachers are to blame for this. If there is ever a profession that should be revered as much as that of a doctor who saves lives it is that of a teacher.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 11, 2017
American fourth-graders, on average, had worse reading skills than they did five years earlier, in 2011, with scores slipping seven points on a 1,000-point scale. During roughly the same 2011 to 2015 time period, fourth-grade reading scores rose slightly, seeming to contradict the international test released last week.
Edsurge
MAY 1, 2017
Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. She achieved National Board Certification in 2011. . Benefits for students—and teachers.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 5, 2020
In the new study, two researchers, Adam Tyner of the Fordham Institute and Sarah Kabourek, a research scientist at the NORC research center at the University of Chicago, looked at data from almost 7,000 students across the U.S. who started kindergarten in 2011. Department of Education tracks.
The Jose Vilson
MARCH 27, 2016
The idea that we must test for grit because it gives us more data is absurd on its face in that we already have plenty of data about the plethora of disadvantages our kids face and, when we don’t, we have any number of ways right now that more than suffice. Useful data. be grading students on grit.
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