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Much ado about NAEP

Dangerously Irrelevant

If middle and elementary school students are forced to repeat grades because they fall short of a standard anchored to NAEP proficient, vast numbers will repeat grades. But that’s a hard case to make, judging by a 2007 analysis from Gary Phillips, former acting commissioner of NCES. emphasis added].

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PROOF POINTS: 114 studies on flipped classrooms show small payoff for big effort

The Hechinger Report

classrooms, from city college campuses to suburban elementary schools. Now there is a significant body of research to answer the question of whether students learn more. Yet other studies have concluded that students were harmed and learned less in a flipped classroom. Over the past decade, flipping has spread across U.S.

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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

Courtney Harritt, a spokesperson for ACCEL, wrote by email that OHDELA’s enrollment surge hit just as the school year started, creating operational challenges, and that ACCEL is making changes after taking over the school from another company in 2018. million in that period, almost quadruple last year’s spending, the analysis showed.

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Every student needs summer school this year to combat coronavirus learning loss

The Hechinger Report

Rising fourth graders listen as a teacher reads a book at an elementary school summer program in Silver Spring, MD. As the coronavirus closes schools, online platforms are proving to be invaluable, allowing instruction to continue and alleviating the severity of students’ learning loss. According to 2018 study by the U.S.

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As schools reopen, will Black and Asian families return?

The Hechinger Report

The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said. Before the pandemic, the number of Black families homeschooling was rising swiftly, doubling between 2003 and 2018. Principal Alice Hom speaking to parents and theater club students at P.S. 124 in 2018.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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