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Lexia Learning Releases New White Paper for Educators

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21, 2018) – According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ reading assessment, only a third of the students in each of the grades evaluated scored at or above proficiency. And while schools’ own end-of-year assessment results tell which students are not reading proficiently, those results do not identify why.

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Why Do Students Struggle with Mathematics?

N2Y

This performance greatly impacts the future of these children, limiting their potentials for employment and advanced education. The “arithmetic to algebra gap” is a term used to describe how students who appear successful in elementary mathematics standards struggle with learning secondary mathematics. Assessment.

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Personalized learning: How kids are getting into college by mastering their skills

The Hechinger Report

A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools. Students refine these skills based on goal-setting, ungraded feedback known as the formative assessment.