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Pre-K may boost math scores even eight years later

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Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. It’s not about intellect or capacity, it’s just about access. These little scholars [got] access to a really enriched vocabulary environment and early exposure to math skills.”. The program at that time was less academically ambitious but more comprehensive, said Neuharth-Pritchett.

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OPINION: How top charter schools became an ‘afterthought’ in one state

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The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Academic standards were the next to go. Then, in 2019, the bottom fell out. State SAT scores rose for 13 consecutive years.

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Schools Say Highest Pressure from Students’ Social and Emotional Needs

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New pre-released data from the Learning Counsel’s 2019 Survey indicates that 58 percent of schools now rate their highest pressure is their student’s social and emotional needs. First came the cries for accountability resulting in increasing numbers of required reports. By LeiLani Cauthen.

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

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Progress reports go out on Thursday and the teachers are up in arms because they can’t enter scores into their online gradebook. But in a competency-based model, teachers must assess and record a student’s performance on each academic standard within and across subjects. Currently, as of 2019, there are 244.

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OPINION: Why Americans should not blame their local college or university for the shortfalls of the elite

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The “Varsity Blues” admissions scandal in 2019 perhaps epitomizes what bothers Americans about elite higher education. with highly selective admissions and academic standards, are failing to enroll the best and brightest students from poor and middle-class families. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Opening the doors to elite public schools

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The new policy stands to degrade academic standards and exclude students based on race, she argued, calling it “a backdoor attempt to dismantle the exam school system altogether.” His group sent a letter to the district in 2019 alleging racial discrimination in exam school admissions.

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After years of neglect, Mississippi takes baby steps to boost school readiness

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More than 3,000 of Mississippi’s kindergarteners, or 9 percent, were unable to move on to first grade for the 2019 school year, more than three times the percentage of children nationally who repeated kindergarten in 2014. Pre-K also teaches important non-academic skills, like how to hold a pencil, pay attention and get along with peers.