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Incorporate Literacy Tools in K–12 STEM Subjects

EdTech Magazine

Reading levels for 13-year-old students have been declining since 2012, with the sharpest drop between 2020 and 2023, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress’s long-term trend assessment. Interestingly, mathematics scores closely follow the same drops, the assessment report shows. “If

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What Is a Rapid Maturity Assessment, and Why Is It Useful for Zero Trust?

EdTech Magazine

According to IBM, the global average cost of a data breach in 2023 was nearly $4.5 To combat these threats, the Consortium for School Networking is seeing an increase in schools adopting practices to improve cybersecurity, according to CoSN’s “2023 State of EdTech Leadership” report.

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What’s the state of K-12 assessment?

eSchool News

With post-pandemic learning loss a continued focus, educators and administrators are relying on both formative and summative K-12 assessment data to direct classroom instruction. Only 62 percent of educators feel proficient in assessment literacy and 51 percent have concerns over the negative impact of assessments on instructional time.

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What I Get To See In Us [2023 Year-In-Review]

The Jose Vilson

Teachers would cycle through instruction, pedagogy, and assessment with a curriculum in hand perhaps. Thank you, 2023. The post What I Get To See In Us [2023 Year-In-Review] appeared first on The Jose Vilson. On paper, the job of teaching is exactly the same as it was before the pandemic. On “the other.”

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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Staff/ The Hechinger Report Education journalism is chock full of stories touting some brand new idea that could fix schools. A February 2024 report about a research-and-development program inside the Department of Education makes this truth crystal clear. Almost 150 of them reported results with more than 20 still unfinished.

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Mathletics Announces US Winners of 2023 ‘World Math Day’

eSchool News

NEW YORK – On March 8, 2023, 296,090 students from around the world took part in ‘World Math Day’ , an online annual event that fosters a love of math in students and boosts their engagement in the subject. Nationwide, there’s growing concern around students’ math performance.

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Curriculum Associates Announces Updates to i-Ready® for the 2023–2024 School Year

American Consortium for Equity in Education

To help accelerate student learning and achievement in the 2023–2024 school year, Curriculum Associates has updated its award-winning i-Ready Personalized Instruction and i-Ready Assessment programs with enhanced lessons and expanded reporting features, as well as additional professional learning support for Keep Reading Curriculum Associates Announces (..)