Parents now call the shots on whether their struggling third-graders are held back. But does it help or hurt Ohio students?
For the past decade, Ohio required that students who failed reading benchmarks be held back. Now, a new policy hands that ...
The Herald Bulletin4d
ACS honors IREAD-3 perfection
Six students at Eastside Elementary School who received perfect scores last spring on the annual IREAD-3 assessment test were ...
KOAM News Now3d
Parents As Teachers program boosts student test scores in Missouri
New research published in the Early Childhood Research Quarterly reveals that participation in Missouri's Parents as Teachers (PAT) Parent Education Program is linked to improved third-grade math and ...
Yakima Herald-Republic4dOpinion
Commentary: Why grade inflation is spreading from high school to college — and how it hurts learning
This might sound impossibly old-fashioned, but I still like the idea that education is about learning: facts, skills, ...
Unesco report finds Grade 3 maths tests not challenging enough
Education experts have called for learning materials to be more challenging and creative for Grade 3 pupils to improve their ...
Buffalo News6d
Sixth grade math scores are a focus in Buffalo Schools. Here's why that adds up
A sharp improvement in math proficiency by Buffalo Public Schools’ economically disadvantaged third ... State Assessments – 23.5% – and aiming for 26% for this year’s sixth grade cohort ...
How the Ivy League Broke America
But students competed ferociously to get into the elite social clubs: Ivy at Princeton, Skull and Bones at Yale, the ...
How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis
Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...
WFAE3d
CMS early literacy scores show signs of improvement, but still a ways to go
More Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools K-2 students are meeting literacy benchmarks early this school year. But administrators ...
Charleston Co. schools improving but can do better, superintendent says in State of Schools address
Charleston County Superintendent Anita Huggins recaps the 2023-24 school year, noting successes, opportunities and focus ...
Ahwatukee Foothills News6d
Opinion: Holiday Car Buying? Don’t Trust the Safety Sticker
Mazda 3), middleweights (e.g., Subaru Legacy, Hyundai Sonata), and heavyweights (e.g., Ford Expedition, GMC Yukon). Cars in ...
Brandon Sun3d
‘Meet teachers where they’re at,’ math educator advises
The career teacher — who has seen math anxiety manifest in classrooms, lecture halls and during staff meetings — is a proponent of a model used within the faculty of education at the University of ...