2019, Academic Standards and Report

Pre-K may boost math scores even eight years later

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. It found that in fourth through seventh grade, graduates of the Georgia pre-k program were one and half to two times more likely to meet the state’s academic standards on math tests than their peers who did not attend public pre-K. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

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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OPINION: Four ways that Mississippi is teaching more children to read well

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The state proved a bright spot on the most recent Nation’s Report Card. Mississippi’s gains came as students in many states did worse in 2019 than they did in 2017 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — to the disappointment of leaders, educators and parents across the United States.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

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APRIL 12, 2023

In 2018, a report conducted by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania found that 44 percent of new teachers left the classroom in five years. Photo courtesy of Winchester. While that example may not apply to us, much of the work educators do daily is under threat.

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Game On: Kahoot Snaps Up DragonBox for $18 Million for Its First Acquisition

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards. According to its most recent financial presentation , more than 178 million games were hosted from 13 million unique accounts during the 12 months prior to March 2019.

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Schools Say Highest Pressure from Students’ Social and Emotional Needs

EdNews Daily

AUGUST 27, 2019

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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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

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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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. Writing lengthy individual student reports. Definition #2 – Guiding the Studies. This is not usually something teachers today consider as their purview.

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Dress codes are the new ‘whites only’ signs

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In December 2019, Barbers Hill Independent School District in Mont Belvieu, Texas, a suburb east of Houston, decided to begin enforcing a dress code policy that’s been on the books for thirty years. Hair has nothing to do with academic standards or college readiness. Like DeAndre, Kaden wears his hair in locs.

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How Schools Can Help Teachers Understand and Address Racial Bias

MindShift

APRIL 29, 2019

Another colleague confesses her surprise at how often teachers of color have reported experiencing racial bias in their own interactions in the building. Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report). Fernandez talks with students between classes, March 29, 2019, in Cambridge, MA.f Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report ).

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

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

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

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

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

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

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. Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Readiness crisis. Skeptics remain.

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Pre-K may boost math scores even eight years later

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