Student Achievement
Education news, analysis, and opinion about efforts to improve or track student performance on a large scale.
Quality Counts
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Quality Counts 2019: Chance for Success
Which states do best job in assuring bright prospects for success over the course of a lifetime? The Quality Counts Chance-for-Success Index offers detailed answers.
Quality Counts
Special Report
Quality Counts 2018: Achievement & Success
The third and final installment of Quality Counts 2018 digs deeply into the data behind how states rank on academic achievement and on students' chance for success in a complex, ever-changing society.
Quality Counts
Special Report
Quality Counts 2018: Grading the States
Education Week's annual state-by-state assessment of public education paints a portrait of middling performance overall with patches of high achievement.
Student Achievement Opinion Taking a Risk with Authentic Learning at Boston International Newcomers AcademyBoston International Newcomers Academy (BINcA), a high school that embraces recent immigrant English language learners and their families, is trailblazing new learning environments in Boston Public Schools (BPS).
Student Achievement Opinion Student-Led Conferences: A Key Structure of Student AgencyStudent-led conferences are core to realizing our mission of every one of our students as a life-long active participant in their own education with a strong sense of self and community.
Student Achievement Opinion Why 'State Management' and Physical Activity Matter to Academic AchievementGuest blog author Mike Kuczala writes, ""State management is managing the brain/body emotional states of learners. Not something we've normally been exposed to in our educational experiences as a learner, teacher or leader."Student Achievement Quiz Quiz Yourself: How Are Schools Helping Struggling Learners?Quiz yourself about Response to Intervention and the Every Student Succeeds Act's impact on students with disabilities!
Student Achievement Q&A Research, Pedagogy, and the Academy: A Q&A With Gloria Ladson-BillingsGloria Ladson-Billings, one of the nation's preeminent researchers on culturally relevant teaching, on Friday became the new president of the National Academy of Education.
Student Achievement Opinion 5 Points Off for Using Pen?School must be a place where students feel stimulated and excited about learning new things, experimenting and taking risks that stretch their thinking, not shut down by folks who feel the need to control them and how they think.
Student Achievement From Our Research Center Peers Guide 9th Graders Through 'Make-or-Break' YearFewer freshmen are failing at Summit High School, thanks to a program that trains juniors and seniors to mentor younger peers.Student Achievement Opinion Why Every Student Should Have a MentorMentorship in middle and high school has the power to impact the course of students' academic and personal life trajectories. One of three foundational pillars of the Summit Learning Program, one-to-one mentorship allows all students a chance to meet with a dedicated teacher or school leader each week as part of their academic and personal development. Students meet with the same mentor year over year, providing them with a sense of continuity and allowing mentors to know students deeply.
Student Achievement Explainer Does Paying Kids to Do Well in School Actually Work?With at least a decade of research on incentives in K-12 schools, here's what’s been learned about using cash and other rewards.
Student Achievement Opinion How Is Homework Helping Students Learn?Rather than assigning independent work because we always have, assign it with the knowledge that the practice will be correct and effective and supported with immediate feedback.Student Achievement Quiz How Much Do You Know About Achievement Gaps in Schools?Quiz Yourself! What areas are facing the largest black-white achievement gaps?
Student Achievement How 'Intelligent' Tutors Could Transform TeachingRobots won't put teachers out of a job soon, but tutoring systems powered by artificial intelligence might well change classroom practice.
Student Achievement Opinion Don't Get Rid of Grades. Change Their Meaning & Consequences!Guest blogger Thomas R. Guskey writes: Although grades should never be the only information about learning that students and parents receive, they can be a meaningful part of that information.
Student Achievement Opinion 2 Pillars of Next Generation Schools: Communities of Learning Committed to Broader Outcomes for AllTwo core elements point to what school can and should be in order to create lasting change in the lives of students.
Student Achievement Here's What Our Opinion Bloggers Are Reading This SummerEducation Week opinion bloggers share their favorite summer reading recommendations for the second year in a row.
