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

The Hechinger Report

At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. OHDELA gets an F rating from the Ohio Department of Education, receiving failing marks on measures including students’ performance on state tests, academic growth and graduation rates. At Stride Inc.,

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PROOF POINTS: Third graders struggling the most to recover in reading after the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Learning to read well in elementary school matters. The results emerged from an analysis of fall 2022 test scores of seven million elementary and middle school children across the nation, in which the reading abilities of third graders remained far behind what children used to be able to do in third grade before the pandemic.

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The science of catching up

The Hechinger Report

Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. A 2020 review of 100 tutoring programs found that intensive tutoring is particularly helpful at improving students’ reading skills during the early elementary years, and most effective in math for slightly older children.

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

eSpark

Our team uses an 85% positive rating as a baseline. Providing teachers with data on their students’ learning levels and suggested materials aligned to their gaps is correlated to student learning outcomes (Bergan et al., The Elementary School Journal, 108(2), 115–130. Elementary School Journal, 111(4), 535–560.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. But Dee said, between fall 2019 and fall 2021, enrollment declined by 2.5

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

In addition, I’ve begun to do some cursory analyses of the data set underlying the map in an attempt to identify patterns that may be useful in responding via policy and practice. The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. Oh, and unroll.me

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

In addition, I’ve begun to do some cursory analyses of the data set underlying the map in an attempt to identify patterns that may be useful in responding via policy and practice. The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. Oh, and unroll.me

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