Student Achievement
Education news, analysis, and opinion about efforts to improve or track student performance on a large scale.
Quality Counts
Special Report
Quality Counts 2020: Grading the States
This third and final installment of Quality Counts 2020 delivers a data-driven portrait of the nation’s school system along with A-F grades and rankings for each state.
Quality Counts
Special Report
Quality Counts 2020: Chance for Success
The EdWeek Research Center issues its annual report card on how well the nation and each of the states do in bolstering the prospects of success over the course of a lifetime.
Quality Counts
Special Report
Quality Counts 2019: Grading the States
The third and final installment of Quality Counts 2019 sums up all the strands of Education Week’s year-long dive into the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s K-12 system, including A-F grades and rankings for the U.S. and each state.
Student Achievement What Would a National Tutoring Program Look Like? Can We Afford It?A "pay it forward" tutoring corps could reach thousands of students and cost $5 billion to $15 billion, a new blueprint concludes.
Student Achievement Should Schools Be Giving So Many Failing Grades This Year?As the pandemic rages, schools are seeing a parallel surge in the numbers of students with Ds and Fs.Student Achievement Spotlight Spotlight on Student DataIn this Spotlight, discover how students perform on national tests and more.Student Achievement Spotlight Spotlight on Closing the Achievement Gap for Young Students: Social Justice, Virtual Learning, COVID, and BeyondIn this Spotlight, explore how experts are projecting learning gaps from closures and more.
Student Achievement Opinion How to Really Close Opportunity Gaps During Our National Racial Reckoning"Colorblind" teaching isn’t going to cut it, writes Vanderbilt University’s H. Richard Milner IV.Student Achievement Letter to the Editor Effective Tutoring Can Be AffordableTo the Editor:
I was delighted to see the August 19 article, “High-Dosage Tutoring Is Effective, But Expensive: Ideas for Making It Work” (Special Report: How We Go Back to School, www.edweek.org.) However, the article contains a serious misconception. In discussing costs of tutoring, it gave a figure of $3,800 per student based on a highly unusual study of math tutoring in Chicago high schools. The Chicago study is one of very few conducted at the high school level. It provided an extraordinary amount of one-to-two tutoring in mathematics and was unique in many other ways. Tutoring is most often used (and evaluated) in reading and in elementary schools
Student Achievement Students Lost Time and Learning in the Pandemic. What 'Acceleration' Can Do to HelpA strategy that gives more learning time in small groups of students without taking time away from core instruction.
Student Achievement Explainer High-Dosage Tutoring Is Effective, But Expensive. Ideas for Making It WorkIndividual or small group tutoring is the most powerful strategy schools can use to respond to pandemic learning losses.Student Achievement Download A Guide to Help Students Catch UpSmart strategies to identify and intervene with students who've fallen behind in their learning.
Student Achievement Explainer Overcoming COVID-19 Learning LossHalting erosion to learning is critical as the new school year begins. Well-known practices backed by research are the best solution.Student Achievement Spotlight Spotlight on Beating the 'COVID Slide'In this Spotlight, discover how schools are addressing academic erosion and more.
Student Achievement Video How a Summer Learning and Sports Program Adapted to the PandemicLeaders at DREAM’s REAL Kid’s New York summer academic and baseball program decided early on to move the program online.Student Achievement Live Online Discussion Providing Deep Learning Experiences to StudentsJoin a conversation on how educators can use John Hattie's research to provide deep learning experiences for students in spite of COVID-19.
Student Achievement Video What Parents Can Do in the Absence of Summer ProgramsThe coronavirus pandemic has closed or changed many summer programs. Experts share with EdWeek their advice for parents this summer.
Student Achievement Opinion Don't Make Black Families Choose Between Academics and JusticeWhile unarmed Black men and women continue to die at the hands of police, our schools first started by killing their minds, writes teacher Jasmine Lane.
