You are a district school superintendent. A large fraction of the students coming out of your middle schools arrive at the door of your high schools a year or two behind where they need to be to ...
Years ago, I coached my 8-year-old son’s basketball team. A few games into the season, a parent berated me for not winning every game. I shared that I had two primary goals (and neither was piling up ...
In 2024, 70% of U.S. eighth-graders did not meet the "National Assessment of Educational Progress Proficient" reading achievement level on a test often referred to as the "Nation's Report Card." ...
Renaissance Learning’s annual look at what students are reading yields two sobering findings about adolescents’ choices when they’re choosing supplemental, or “outside,” reading: High school students ...
Dayle Burns is the wife of House Speaker Jon Burns, and she admits she gives him a nudge every now and again, especially when ...
In the education world. there's plenty of talk about performing "at grade level," such as the importance of getting all third-graders reading at grade level by the end of that year. Board of Education ...
A new study by Gallup on behalf of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy finds that low levels of adult literacy could be costing the U.S. as much $2.2 trillion a year. According to the U.S.
A-level results day is here and students up and down the country will be receiving their important grades in order for them to move onto the next step in their career or education. According to the ...
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Did the new A* grade do what it was intended to do? Opinion is divided. For the tens of thousands of students celebrating climbing to this new height, much praise is due. With only one-in-12 A-level ...