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| | Thirteen-year-olds saw unprecedented declines in both reading and math between 2012 and 2020, according to scores released this morning from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Consistent with several years of previous data, the results point to a clear and widening cleavage between America's highest- and lowest-performing students and raise urgent questions about how [...]
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| | The Iowa Department of Education (DE) was quoted recently as saying, "We really aren't looking at [3rd grade retention] as being punitive." The problem, of course, is that it doesn't matter how we as adults perceive retention. What matters is how the retained 8-year-olds perceive retention. And four decades of research is very clear that...
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| | One of the key flaws of education reform since the 1980s is that education policy tends to be more about political and popular fads resulting in copy-cat state education policy than about addressing provable educational need. For example, as Cummings, Stunk, and De Voto show about state reading policy: Florida, which passed it's Just Read,...
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| Teachers Gus Morales (Massachusetts) and Michael Flanagan (New York) drive the Education Town Hall BUS October 22, with national organizer Denisha Jones. This month's topics include caps on charter school proliferation in Massachusetts, the recent Education Justice Conference held in New York, and BAT's Amicus brief in California. In addition, Flanagan tells of the Bronx...