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Young students less prepared for grade-level reading, math

eSchool News

This report is one of the first to gather and analyze nationally representative data from more than five million Grades K–2 students, thanks to their i-Ready® Diagnostic for Reading and for Mathematics. points, respectively, from 2019 to 2023. Our students have faced tremendous hardship, and the road ahead will not be easy.

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How To Engage Today’s Students in Civics

eSchool News

See related article: Khan Academy Boosts National Civics Bee At this point, we have all heard about the learning gaps in math and reading scores these past few years. In 2022, only 22% of students scored “proficient” or higher on a nationwide civics assessment. Search for other school library innovations.

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5 critical ingredients in a school safety plan

eSchool News

A separate survey found that 26 percent of teachers are “afraid for their physical safety” while at school and report “dread” when the new school year starts in August. Conduct an assessment of risks pertinent to the school’s geographic location, physical layout, and available resources. There are many reasons for this.

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How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism

eSchool News

I reviewed recently published articles on the relationship between bullying and these academic factors. The odds of illness and truant absences “increased by 45 percent if bullying victimization was reported several times a week.” Here are a few takeaways. Perpetrating bullying was also associated with absences.

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Testing Literacy Today Requires more than a Pencil and Paper

Digital Promise

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The results of large-scale tests may be used by schools or policy-makers to make important decisions such as grouping students by ability or assessing how well schools are doing.

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Partnerships that Work: Tapping Research to Address Learner Variability in Young Readers

Digital Promise

In our latest report , we chronicle LPS’s partnership with ReadWorks , a nonprofit that leverages learning sciences research in support of its mission to help address gaps in students’ reading achievement. Teachers reported that the audio feature allowed all learners, whether or not they could decode quickly, to access knowledge.

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How flawed IQ tests prevent kids from getting help in school

The Hechinger Report

Yet the change isn’t happening fast enough for many parents and researchers who say the tests remain deeply ingrained in the work of school psychologists, in particular, and that they are still regularly misused to gauge young children’s potential and assess whether they are “worthy” of extra help or investment.