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OPINION: The charade of ‘test-optional’ admissions

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In its 2022 SAT annual report, the College Board reported that students from families earning less than $67,083 annually made up only 27 percent of test takers who reported their family income. This is a jump from 46 percent of student test takers whose families earned $80,001 or more in 2016.

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Most families have given up virtual school, but what about students who are still thriving online?

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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. Credit: Carly Graf for The Hechinger Report But, two years in, enrollment had dropped to 87 kids, a 65 percent decrease. It wasn’t just a mother’s intuition.

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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

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The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading. However, before the courts resolved that legal question, the litigants settled the case in 2020. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The settlement itself was noteworthy.

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Universal prekindergarten is coming to California — bumpy rollout and all

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billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report There are teachers who should have aides, but don’t. The plan is that the $2.7

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Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights?

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Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report. A few months earlier, according to a state report provided by Richmond, AJ had once threatened to knock another student down to steal his belt; his special education team had stepped in and concluded he posed no threat of harm to himself or others. How depressed was he feeling?

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As Bezos Academy Preschools Spread Nationally, Early Childhood Experts Weigh In

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states permanently closed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a 2022 report from Child Care Aware of America , a national membership association that works to improve child care and the early childhood profession. Nearly 16,000 child care programs across dozens of U.S. That’s already happening in some areas.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

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Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Guidelines put out by the U.S. The study described a 14-year-old referred to as Percy F. The studies came just as the U.S.

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