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7 strategies to improve vocabulary instruction

January 23, 2020January 21, 2020 by Stephanie McKew, M.Ed.

A decline in knowledge could be reversed with new approaches to 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

September 5, 2018August 28, 2018 by By Julia Freeland Fisher, director of education research at the Christensen Institute

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

June 20, 2012June 19, 2012 by From wire service reports

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

May 11, 2012May 10, 2012 by From wire service reports

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

May 5, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

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

July 28, 2011January 25, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

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

November 9, 2010 by staff and wire services reports

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

March 25, 2010March 24, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

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,…

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