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3 simple ways educators and families can accelerate math learning

August 14, 2023July 14, 2023 by Caryn Rogoff, Director of Content, PowerMyLearning

$Research shows that strong home/school relationships, playful activities, and ‘learning by explaining’ can help students with math learning.$

As the most recent nation's report card made painfully clear, American students are struggling in math. At the same time, administrators, teachers, and parents are finding new ways…

Teaching Trends

Making the grade: How to spur achievement after NAEP declines

July 6, 2023 by Aaron McCloud, Founder & CEO, Intervene K-12

Declining NAEP scores are a warning sign that a new approach is needed to effectively address learning challenges and student achievement.

For decades, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has pursued a mission to monitor student academic performance, providing insights into educational progress and long-term trends. It’s a…

IT Management

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.

STEM & STEAM

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…

Curriculum

Report: U.S. students don’t know much about history

June 14, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

Just 13 percent of high school seniors who took the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, showed a solid grasp of American…

Curriculum

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…

Curriculum

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,…

3 simple ways educators and families can accelerate math learning

Making the grade: How to spur achievement after NAEP declines

Tests show U.S. students struggle to explain answers

Study: Eighth-grade students still lag in science

Report: U.S. students don’t know much about history

U.S. students fare poorly in civics understanding

Reading scores hold steady on nationwide test

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