3 ways to avoid summer learning loss
While it can be easy for teachers and students to slip out of routine over the summer break, it’s important that students don’t get out of the habit…
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How the COVID crisis caused K-12 to rethink testing
The pandemic reignited the debate over shifting away from high-stakes testing to a more balanced assessment approach that’s part of the regular instructional cycle.
How ESSA will boost ed-tech funding
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) includes block grants intended for technology, among other uses. It also opens the door to new state testing systems.
Every Student Succeeds Act shifts more power to states
While a "new and improved" version of the hotly-debated No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) would still require reading and math testing in grades 3-8 and once in…
More than half of students struggle with reading, report says
Nearly half of minority students and students from low-income families enter the fifth grade without basic reading skills, according to a new report urging Congress to focus on…
Tough slog ahead in Congress for NCLB rewrite
U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Lamar Alexander earlier this month announced a symbolic breakthrough in the decadelong ideological wrangling over how to rewrite the nation's chief education law.…