Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...
“We don’t test students’ foundational literacy skills after 3rd grade as a rule ... study examined the reading growth of about 17,000 students in grades 5-9 between 2011 and 2014 on an ...
IN a bid to revive the culture of reading, the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) is hosting a reading revolution this Saturday (9 ... many Grade 4 learners cannot read with ...
In a whole-school literacy initiative, students learn metacognitive tools to help with reading and then apply them across content areas.
Philosopher George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” That warning sounds more ominous once you realize how many college students can’t ...
The study found that while the Department of Basic Education has shown a commitment to supporting mathematics in the early grades in terms of budget allocations to early reading programmes ...
Massachusetts voters have elected to say “yes” to ballot question 2, eliminating the need for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) as a graduation requirement.
“The biggest barrier to achieving that is teacher training around adopting science instruction early and prioritizing science and engineering through fifth grade.” “We can’t talk about ...
This story has been updated to add more school district budget details. More than 1,200 people gathered with school district ...
Brisbane parents work hard to get their children into top schools, with some starting their plans from pregnancy.
They correlated the scores of their formulas with the results of reading comprehension tests. This allowed them to predict that a text with a certain score would be understood by a given share of ...
Some instructors said the number of students who scored 40 percent or lower on the test ... comprehension, the average dropped to 58.9 percent from 68.3 percent, while the figure for reading ...