The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Four meta-analyses conclude that it’s more effective to teach phonemic awareness with letters, not as an oral-only exercise. A new meta-analysis confirms that the answer is no. 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.
Digital Promise
APRIL 1, 2019
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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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
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.”
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
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. The exercises benefited their own math skills, too.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
They found 144 studies involving nearly 80,000 students, from elementary school through university. In Bureau’s analysis of the nearly 150 underlying studies, a sense of competence rose to the top for helping kids feel motivated to learn. (By Two conclusions jumped out. The three needs are competency, belonging and autonomy.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 5, 2022
In a simulation exercise across nearly 100 large school districts, the academics were able to redraw elementary school boundaries to reduce racial segregation by 12 percent while cutting almost one minute off of students’ average commuting time. That’s nearly every district in the nation that has more than one elementary school.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
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 In a normal year, the exercise would have been scaled back by this point, Woll said. Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S.
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