Brendan Clarey | July 26, 2024 (Chalkboard News) — An education organization that administers a nationwide assessment has found that students are still not performing as well as they were immediately before the COVID-19 pandemic and that students’ achievement gap worsened in the 2023-24 school year as compared to before COVID. NWEA, which issues the […]
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Adam Wittenberg | July 25, 2024 (The Lion) — What came first, the chicken or the egg? That seems to be the question with the College Board “recalibrating” Advanced Placement (AP) test scores in the midst of college grade inflation. But experts worry that other factors are at play, such as a push for “social
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Brendan Clarey | July 24, 2024 (Chalkboard News) — Thousands of teachers have left their unions in recent years, and alternative organizations are offering services as alternatives to those provided by the largest teachers unions: the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The Freedom Foundation announced this week that it will be
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Vince Bielski | July 18, 2024 (RealClearInvestigations) — Next month, the Huntsville School District in Arkansas will join the wave of public schools switching to a four-day week. The shorter school week, which first emerged in a few rural areas decades ago, is now expanding into suburbs and smaller cities. At least 2,100 schools in
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