Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Note the huge spike in January 2022 due to the Omicron variant. Also note that the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) chose to administer the NAEP tests in March 2022 , during the downswing of that huge spike in cases and after two years of COVID trauma (six weeks later America hit the 1 million dead mark ).

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Assessment Report Comparison Outcomes 363

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To help her along, the teacher at her Bay Area elementary school has been showing her the right way to hold a pencil. And for many, kindergarten simply is no longer the assumed first step in a child’s formal education, another sign of the way the pandemic and online learning upended the U.S. It’s harder. school system.

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Analysis Elementary Report Data 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If elementary and middle school students don’t learn these subjects well, the steady ramp up from arithmetic to algebra becomes a ninety-degree wall, according to Hung-Hsi Wu, emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. First, let’s take a closer look at middle school learning loss.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

The highly contagious Omicron variant prompted Chicago, Detroit and several more of nation’s largest school districts to shut down in-person school in early January 2022. That information won’t be available until spring 2022 tests are analyzed in May or June. Credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images. It isn’t much worse than we thought.

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Study Assessment Data Elementary 125

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2023

For example, Virginia’s Fairfax County used federal funds toward implementing an online, optional tutoring program, but saw limited student participation in 2022. Their internal analysis cited the program’s late-year roll-out as one of the biggest adoption challenges.

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Classroom Report Analysis Examples 75

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Research has shown that facial analysis algorithms and datasets perform poorly when examining the faces of women, Black and Brown people, the elderly and children. Thoughtless expansion of tech tools into the classroom can exacerbate the discrimination Black and Hispanic students already face, experts warn. Take facial recognition technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said. That long commute is not uncommon in New York and elsewhere, especially for Black students, who in one analysis of five major cities, had longer school commutes than their white and Hispanic counterparts.

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Report Personalized Learning Survey Training 134