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- ‘We can’t hide from the numbers’: Some WI students are falling behind in staggering numbers
- Mar 11, 7:36 AM: Our students are falling behind in staggering numbers. In our Two Americas report, we spotlight two districts in southern Wisconsin: The largest and most diverse, Milwaukee Public Schools, and medium-sized and also very diverse >
- Audit says Minnesota’s efforts to close achievement gap lack clarity, structure
- Mar 9, 9:42 AM: The Minnesota Department of Education's amorphous role in helping school districts close academic achievement gaps renders a trio of state programs largely ineffective in tackling those disparities, a new state audit >
- Pandemic learning loss ‘a 4-alarm fire’ as low student scores paint grim picture (CER in the news)
- Mar 8, 11:01 AM: From schooling through a screen to those who simply stopped showing up, the trends caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are now yielding a new set of numbers that paint a grim picture of young people falling behind.
- It’s ‘Alarming’: Children Are Severely Behind in Reading
- Mar 8, 10:58 AM: As the pandemic enters its third year, a cluster of new studies now show that about a third of children in the youngest grades are missing reading benchmarks, up significantly from before the pandemic.
- Atlanta district to hold summer school in June
- Mar 8, 9:04 AM: More than 11,000 Atlanta elementary and middle school students could enroll in the district’s summer learning program.
- Pandemic had negative impact on test scores for all students in NC, new DPI report finds
- Mar 3, 7:29 AM: The State Board of Education heard a long awaited report today on learning loss in North Carolina that resulted from the pandemic.
- Governor Ducey announces start of AZ On Track Summer Camp
- Mar 3, 7:25 AM: It's a huge undertaking, getting 250,000 public school children caught up in class. The COVID-19 pandemic did not discriminate. Our health, the economy, and our children's education were all impacted.
- Bill seeks to address learning loss
- Mar 3, 7:20 AM: Senate Bill 306 would require the Department of Higher Education to work with Education Service Centers, the Ohio Department of Education, and our schools to develop a training program that can be used by individuals who do not >
- Asian-Americans Fight Back Against School Discrimination
- Mar 2, 10:20 AM: From Harvard to a Virginia high school, courts take up racial preferences’ harm to this minority population.
- N.J.’s school segregation lawsuit returns to court this week
- Mar 2, 9:54 AM: A lawsuit hinging on a study that found New Jersey schools are some of the most segregated in the country will return to the courtroom this week, with plaintiffs hoping for a major shift in state policies regulating where children >
- Legislators push for money to train Oregon teachers in the science of reading
- Mar 1, 9:18 AM: A majority of the state’s 4th and 8th graders are not proficient in reading, according to national data on student progress
- New Jersey schools are racially segregated. A judge can change that. | Opinion
- Feb 28, 9:41 AM: As the court considers the facts and the law, it should also consider students.
- The School Shutdowns and Lost Literacy
- Feb 25, 10:20 AM: Governments made many mistakes in the pandemic, and shutting down schools was arguably the worst. We’re now discovering the damage as studies calculate the learning loss.
- Confidence in California public schools declines sharply; a third give L.A. a D or F
- Feb 25, 9:30 AM: Pollsters asked voters to give schools a letter-grade rating from A to F — essentially the same question asked of voters in a 2011 USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll. A decade ago, the results were interpreted as sobering; the >
- Perspective: Inequality has long driven Black parents to pull children from public schools
- Feb 24, 9:38 AM: It is a reminder that despite 65 years of desegregating our nation’s schools, the school integration movement has failed to provide Black students with the conditions they need to thrive — well-funded schools, relevant curriculum >
- Editorial: Extend school year to counter learning loss
- Feb 22, 10:18 AM: After another wave of school closures due to COVID-19, reaching the end of the academic year without further disruptions must be an overriding priority. Yet even if that modest goal is met, America’s youth face learning deficits >
- Gwinnett schools lean on tutors to address pandemic learning loss
- Feb 22, 7:24 AM: Gwinnett County Public Schools hopes to replicate that progress as it addresses learning loss students may have experienced during the pandemic.When officials closed school buildings and shifted students to online classes, “we saw >
- Commentary: To fix our education crisis, let’s focus on educating
- Feb 18, 9:34 AM: There’s been a lot of coverage of people leaving California because of high taxes, house prices, crime. You name it. But if you’re a parent of a student of color, there’s another reason to leave. Our education system can’t educate >
- Judge holds D.C. in contempt for failing to provide education to older students with disabilities in
- Feb 18, 8:53 AM: A federal judge has found the District in contempt of court for failing to provide adequate special education to students with disabilities detained at the D.C. jail.
- COVID Exposed How Public Schools Are Failing Black Kids. Will Progressives Care? | Opinion
- Feb 17, 10:19 AM: Americans today are questioning the public school system more than at any other time in my life. And it's not just conservatives. Recently, liberals have started voicing their discontent with teachers unions, school closures and >
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