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Kindergarten math is often too basic. Here’s why that’s a problem

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Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report Kindergarten may be math’s most important year — it lays the groundwork for understanding the relationship between number and quantity and helps develop “number sense,” or how numbers relate to each other, experts and researchers say. play a guess-the-number game with different colored counters.

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TEACHER VOICE: Students deserve classroom experiences that reflect their history

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Here are a few ways we can do this: Improve instructional materials. She is a 2023-24 Teach Plus Colorado Policy Fellow. This story about creating more diverse classroom experiences was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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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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Third graders’ reading scores rose in 2022 and 2023, equivalent to an extra 25 percent of a year of learning, compared to students in schools that weren’t eligible for the settlement payments. A pair of Stanford University education researchers studied whether the settlement made a difference, and their conclusion was that yes, it did.

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District leaders outline top 3 COVID relief funding priorities

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School districts continue to prioritize expanding summer learning and enrichment offerings, adding specialist staff such as mental health personnel and reading specialists, and investing in high-quality instructional materials and curriculum, according to a survey administered by AASA, The School Superintendents Association.

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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

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In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. This research was funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report. ) It cost about $400 per student in instructional materials and teacher training.

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

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A 2021 article, “ They Say You Can Do Phonemic Awareness Instruction ‘In the Dark’, But Should You? ” Twenty years after the reading panel’s report, a second meta-analysis came out in 2022 with even fresher studies but arrived at the same conclusion. Sign up for the Proof Points newsletter.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

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But district leaders, administrators and teachers have incredible demands placed on them, which were exacerbated by the pandemic and while there are high-quality materials available, they’re not compiled.

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