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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Four meta-analyses conclude that it’s more effective to teach phonemic awareness with letters, not as an oral-only exercise. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDU Educators around the country have embraced the “science of reading” in their classrooms, but that doesn’t mean there’s a truce in the reading wars. But science evolved.

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The Limits of Curriculum Choice

Digital Promise

But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.

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PROOF POINTS: The myth of the quick learner

The Hechinger Report

On average, it was taking both high and low achievers about seven to eight practice exercises to learn a new concept, a rather tiny increment of learning that the researchers call a “knowledge component.” The software guided students through practice problems and exercises. But they’re making progress at the same rates.”

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Teachers conquering their math anxiety

The Hechinger Report

CHICAGO — In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who loves reading but struggles in math. Several educators in the classroom identified with Wendi, and that was the point.

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How to Help Your Students Learn Healthy Communication Skills

Waterford

Classroom Activities to Build Verbal Communication Skills. Communication activities for the classroom don’t have to be as intimidating as standing up in front of everyone and giving a speech. Classroom Activities to Build Written Communication Skills. Abraham Lincoln, Malala Yousafzai, Martin Luther King Jr.,

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PROOF POINTS: What almost 150 studies say about how to motivate students

The Hechinger Report

A team of Canadian and Australian researchers decided to take a scientific approach and comb through classroom studies across the world on sparking student motivation. They found 144 studies involving nearly 80,000 students, from elementary school through university. Others lavish praise or dole it out judiciously.

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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Yon used to hold silent reading time in her classroom; students could read whatever they wanted for 20 minutes. An analysis of test scores in California and South Carolina found that students had lost almost a third of a year in reading. A national analysis of the test scores of 5.5 READ THE SERIES.