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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.
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.
Quality Counts Special Report Quality Counts 2020: Chance for SuccessThe 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.
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.
