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Incorporate Literacy Tools in K–12 STEM Subjects

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Reading levels for 13-year-old students have been declining since 2012, with the sharpest drop between 2020 and 2023, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress’s long-term trend assessment. Interestingly, mathematics scores closely follow the same drops, the assessment report shows. “If

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

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Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Map created by Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report. The number passing the exam and earning a diploma has decreased more than 40 percent from almost 400,000 in 2012 to just over 225,000 in 2016.

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Math Scores Drop Again

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If you’d like to understand this trend more, check out Education Week ‘s article: Young Adolescents’ Scores Trended to Historic Lows on National Tests. And That’s Before COVID Hit.

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Report: ‘Colleges Need to Better Inform Students of Tradeoffs Between Working and Learning’

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And while many students still juggle a job, a new report highlights why that’s even tougher for those who are low-income. Low-income working learners are going to school more and working more hours, yet struggling to make it,” the report, which was released on Tuesday by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, states.

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New ‘Horizon Report’ Looks Back on What Past Predictions Got Wrong

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It led the Horizon Report, an annual attempt by a panel of experts to forecast educational trends, to predict in 2012 that gamification would be a major force in education within three years. In fact, after 2015, the Horizon Report stopped mentioning it at all.

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Is It Time for a National Conversation About Eliminating Letter Grades?

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“It was an unmitigated disaster in Maine,” Eyler admits, referring to a 2012 state law mandated that schools move to “proficiency-based” grading (a flavor of standards-based grading).

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Report: Declining Community College Enrollment Worries Workforce Experts

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Community college enrollment declined 11 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2017, according to new research from the Southern Regional Education Board, a drop that may signal workforce trouble ahead as more jobs require advanced skills and credentials.

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