The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Students chat about the data analysis they’ve performed on their cellphone usage over a week, while Perizzolo walks around the room fielding their questions. They also determined the research questions they’d ask of the data — such as whether social media use during class reduces comprehension and retention.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. The leading indicators of STEM troubles ahead are apparent within the 2022 scores from a national test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). economy, which needs skilled scientists and engineers to grow. That fell to 7 percent.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Findings from Pathways to Success: How Stretch Growth Goals Support Learning Recovery are based on data from more than 2.4 million students who completed the i-Ready Diagnostic for Reading and more than 3 million students who completed the i-Ready Diagnostic for Mathematics in Grades K–7 in 2021–2022 and in Grades 1–8 in 2022–2023.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2023

PRWEB) — Sourcewell , a trusted advisor to education leaders, announces that North Star Central Elementary School in Boswell, Pennsylvania—home to more than 350 pre-K–4 students—is seeing significant growth in students’ math scores, despite national trends. “At PAUL, MINN.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The first report, The State of Student Learning in 2022 , analyzes reading and mathematics data gathered from nearly two million Grades 1–8 students during the 2021–2022 school year via the edtech company’s i-Ready Assessment tool. KEY FINDINGS.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Finland’s teenagers, formerly the world’s highest achievers , still perform above average on the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, but they turned in their lowest-ever average scores in math, science and reading in the latest study, and those numbers have been going down for years.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sample question on the math section of the 2022 PISA exam. For more PISA questions, there are PISA practice questions on Khan Academy and publicly released questions from the 2022 test. Source: OECD PISA 2022. The tests were administered in 2022.) Source: OECD PISA 2022. Source: OECD PISA 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

That data showed considerable progress in integrating schools but also some steps backward, especially since the 1990s in the nation’s biggest cities. That’s why I also wanted to trace the data on academic achievement over the same time period. Board of Education decision that declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Children in kindergarten when the pandemic broke out in the spring of 2020 are now roughly eight years old and in third grade this 2022-23 school year. Learning to read well in elementary school matters. Third graders in 2022 are the furthest behind in reading, as depicted by the bar on the far left.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

All three were produced by for-profit companies that sell assessments to schools. Unlike annual state tests, these interim assessments are administered at least twice a year and help track student progress, or learning, during the year. The most recent data, released on Aug.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2022

The good news, according to the latest achievement data, is that learning resumed at a more typical pace during the 2021-22 school year that just ended. The big picture takeaway is that learning mirrors pre-pandemic trends,” said Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, which sells assessments to schools to track student progress.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” That was in 2017. “It It began to become emotionally draining.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

Partnering with SoapBox since June of 2022, Phonics, Reading, and Me leverages this AI technology to accurately capture data on skills proficiency—regardless of children’s race, background, or ethnicity. Lessons included in the Phonics, Reading, and Me program focus on rich texts that give students decoding and skills practice.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) in Georgia, a three-school pilot in January 2020 grew into a district-wide online and offline reading program for students across its 34 elementary schools, according to Andrea Burkiett, director of curriculum and instruction for the district.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. Authors Laith and Vaillancourt (2022) labeled bullying “a global health problem that often prevents children from achieving their fundamental right to education.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2023

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2022, students in fourth and eighth grade had the largest decline in mathematics achievement since 1990.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

10, 2022) – The personalized literacy solution Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) from Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, has received the highest rating of Tier 1 from the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE). With robust offerings for differentiated instruction, personalized learning, assessment, and professional learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Based on a sample of more than 7,000 9-year-olds around the country, two decades of academic progress in reading and math were erased from 2020 to 2022. But it is troubling that the lowest achieving students in our schools lost the most ground between 2020 and 2022. Department of Education released disastrous test results.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In total, the district serves 29,500 students across 60 elementary, middle, and high schools. It is a 100 percent CEP district, which means that every student is eligible for free lunch based on the economic poverty data submitted to the federal government. Related : Meet the 2022 K-12 Hero Awards winners!

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2022

BEAVERTON, Oregon, March 31, 2022 — Leveraging standards-based instructional content and its award-winning technology, Vernier Software & Technology is announcing Vernier Connections , an innovative web-based platform to engage high school students in hands-on STEM learning and exploration.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The 2022 experiment took place in four second grade classrooms in the Netherlands. Source: Figure 1 of “The effect of retrieval practice on fluently retrieving multiplication facts in an authentic elementary school setting,” (2023) Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology. Retrieval practice can seem counterintuitive.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is currently no standardized cyber safety curriculum being taught in primary, elementary or intermediate schools. Cyber Legends has reached out to teachers, schools, school boards, cybersecurity experts, and online safety professionals to collect data over the past 2 years to learn about their challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2022

At one elementary school in rural Appalachia, most of the children are white and poor; 90 percent qualify for free or reduced priced lunch. Despite the training that teachers received on assessing students by answering a list of 37 questions, some teachers were inclined to rate their students more generously than others.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

But teachers were heroic during the pandemic, and data shows that students continued to strive toward meaningful learning, even with many forms of chaos erupting all around them. And there is every reason to expect disruptions in student learning post pandemic. Students deserve the same. They even asked questions about ethics and funding.

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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. Now we have a new batch of studies analyzing how students did on fall 2021 assessments. Credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images. It isn’t much worse than we thought.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. SpaRRk Academy’s future sat on shaky ground; the school board announced in late 2022 that it would hold a vote this spring on whether to shutter the academy altogether.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“If you teach phonemic awareness, students will learn phonemic awareness,” which isn’t the goal, said Tiffany Peltier , a learning scientist who consults on literacy training for teachers at NWEA, an assessment company. “If If you teach blending and segmenting using letters, students are learning to read and spell.” school districts.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. AI and Data Literacy With the AI revolution in full swing, teachers’ digital proficiency kit should also include AI and data literacy. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Madda et al.,

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edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast When the Nation’s Report Card for 2022 was released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the declines in student reading and math scores were alarming, but for many, the data was not surprising.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

18, Richmond received an email from the Jefferson County School District: AJ was suspended while the district evaluated his risk of violence, a formal process known as a behavioral threat assessment. Still, policymakers increasingly see the use of threat assessment teams as a viable way to prevent mass shootings.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

Close up of an illustration from the cover of a May 2022 study on high school grade inflation by ACT, a maker of college admissions tests. The ACT study found that high school grades rose between 2010 and 2022 while scores on the ACT fell. Credit: ACT Inc. As grades rose, achievement fell. Something interesting is happening in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. The only academic benefit from art at all was in one aspect of writing, as measured by Texas state assessments. Disciplinary infractions were 3.6

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. A majority of students weren’t mastering the subject, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a test that tracks academic achievement. Sometimes, it’s a simple question.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 The data shows over and over that we are missing the mark completely in our effort to build equitable, anti-racist classrooms. percent of students met or exceeded the Science standards.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Teachers described their challenges in combining in-person and remote teaching in a University of California, Santa Cruz, study published in January 2022. It’s a professional assessment of a flawed model. The teachers worked in elementary, middle and high schools. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data. Education leaders will continue to put resources toward wellness programs, but with greater scrutiny and demand for evidence-based data.

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