However, these same children, the majority of whom were 14 or 15 years old, struggled to solve much simpler school math problems, such as basic division. (After making the purchases, the undercover shoppers revealed their identities and asked the sellers...
Number sense is so innate to many adults that they may not remember being taught such skills. It is crucial to mastering more complex math skills like manipulating fractions and decimals, or solving equations with unknown variables, experts say. Research...
The cuts kept coming. Late Thursday, the Education Department announced that it had terminated an additional 10 research and technical assistance contracts with its regional education laboratories totaling $336 million. In this case, the administration said it was targeting ideologically...
In the Monday meeting, employees were told that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a unit within the Trump administration run by Elon Musk, plans to cancel most of IES’ contracts. Two employees shared screenshots of emails summoning them to...
“It’s not just that students are failing to catch up, but that students are continuing to fall behind,” says one of the report’s authors, Harvard’s Tom Kane. That reading trend line raises important questions about how quickly states can expect...
She’s done a slightly different version of this activity with elementary students’ parents, in which the parents each wrote a wish for their child on a strip of paper, then all the papers were linked together to make a chain...
Two of the most important federal funding streams to public schools are: Title I, which provides money to help districts that serve lower-income communities. In 2023, the Education Department received more than $18 billion for Title I. IDEA (Individuals with...
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which provides data for the Nation’s Report Card, is mandated by Congress and is the largest nationally representative test of student learning. NAEP tests were first administered in 1969. Today, the assessments in...
Like Luther, many teachers might have new students in their classrooms in the spring semester. Luther kick-starts these classes with value setting activities and check-ins, much like he would do at the beginning of the year, “to make sure that...
The article notes that Dr. Fuchs “is concentrating on academic outcomes” and acknowledges that inclusion may have “psychological or social benefits” that were studied. Yet, this seems to imply that these benefits are less relevant to students’ academic success. Social...
