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 Summer Programs Struggle to Keep Learning Fun From a DistanceIn the face of coronavirus and deep budget cuts, summer learning programs must find new ways to safely engage kids in educational activities this year.
Student Achievement From Our Research Center Districts' Summer School Plans on Shaky GroundOnly one-quarter of the nation’s school district leaders say they have fully developed plans to offer summer learning, according to an EdWeek Research Center survey.Student Achievement Data: Students Are Getting Less Instruction Time During CoronavirusSurveys by the EdWeek Research Center capture a picture of teaching and learning during the pandemic that reveals big instructional equity problems.
Student Achievement Academically Speaking, the 'COVID Slide' Could Be a Lot Worse Than You ThinkNew projections suggest learning loss from pandemic school closures would be worse than the losses students experience during summer break.
Student Achievement Smart Scheduling Puts Students' Needs FirstA principal went back to the drawing board on his school's schedule after hearing author Daniel Pink talk about what children really need.
Student Achievement What This Superintendent Learns From Teaching a High School CourseThe leader of a Montana school district spends up to two hours each day grading assignments from students in an online English credit recovery program.
Student Achievement Opinion Does Studying Student Data Really Raise Test Scores?Many teachers believe that analyzing student testing data can boost performance, but research suggests otherwise, writes Heather C. Hill.
Student Achievement Opinion The Dangerous Narrative That Lurks Under the 'Achievement Gap'Black students are not to blame for their lack of educational opportunities, argues assistant principal Eric Higgins.
Student Achievement From Our Research Center How Teachers Talk About Educational Disparities (Data)In a national survey, we dug into how teachers use language to make sense of disparities in student outcomes by race and income level.
Student Achievement Opinion Redefining Opportunity and Advantage in EducationThe word choices we make can inform and affect how we view student potential. This special Opinion package tackles what educators need to know.
Student Achievement One Big Barrier to Personalized Learning: TimeEncouraging students to work at their own pace is a worthy goal, educators say, but difficult to pull off due to rigid school schedules and other barriers.Student Achievement Letter to the Editor The Racial Equity GapTo the Editor:
I find Education Week's article "Poverty, Not Race, Fuels the Achievement Gap" (Oct. 1, 2019) very troubling.
Student Achievement 'No Progress' Seen in Reading or Math on Nation's Report Card"Over the past decade, there has been no progress in either mathematics or reading performance, and the lowest-performing students are doing worse," Peggy Carr, the associate commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said of the latest national assessment results.Student Achievement Black-White Achievement Gaps Go Hand in Hand With Discipline DisparitiesAs black-white achievement gaps widen in schools, so, too, do disparities in discipline rates between black and white students.
Student Achievement National Study Bolsters Case for Teaching 'Growth Mindset'A national study of nearly 12,500 9th graders finds that two sessions of a 25-minute exercise on “growth mindset” can boost students’ grades and their willingness to take on challenging classes.
