10 educator suggestions to instill a love of reading in students
My husband quite often reminds me not to use my behavior as a child OR an adult as an indicator of others’… because I’m weird. From the moment…
NAEP
7 strategies to improve vocabulary instruction
Two-thirds of students in the U.S. are struggling with reading and the gap is widening, according to recent NAEP testing. Although insufficient decoding skills are typically thought to…
The other gap that schools aren’t talking about—relationships
The NAEP scores released in April set off a flurry of headlines about the sobering state of achievement gaps across ... Read more
Tests show U.S. students struggle to explain answers
American children do much better identifying the correct answers to simple scientific tasks than using evidence from their experiments to explain those answers.
Study: Eighth-grade students still lag in science
Eighth-graders in the U.S. are doing slightly better in science than they were two years ago, but seven out of 10 still are not considered proficient, the federal…
U.S. students fare poorly in civics understanding
Roughly three-quarters of U.S. students failed to reach proficiency in a national exam testing their awareness of civics last year—a result that severely undermines the nation’s democracy, some…
Fewer than half of students proficient in science
The nation’s students are still struggling in science, with fewer than half considered proficient and just a tiny fraction showing the advanced skills that could lead to careers…
Proficiency of black students is found to be far lower than expected
An achievement gap separating black from white students has long been documented — a social divide extremely vexing to policy makers and the target of one blast of…
Reading scores hold steady on nationwide test
The reading scores for fourth- and eighth-grade students on a national test held mostly steady last year, continuing a stubborn trend of minimal improvement across most racial, economic,…