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If your child was one of many who fell behind in school during the COVID pandemic, this grant opportunity may be an option to help get them back up to speed.

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This Week’s Top Story  Massive Learning Setbacks Show COVID’s Sweeping Toll on Kids Via AP: The average U.S. elementary-school student lost more than half a school year of learning in math — and nearly a quarter of a school year in reading — during the pandemic. “When you have a massive crisis, the worst effects […]

With Black and Hispanic youth being hit especially hard, the percentage of students meeting math and English standards dropped significantly during the pandemic.

The 2022 results from the “main” National Assessment of Educational Progress will be released Oct. 24. If you’re feeling like the 2022 NAEP results just came out, you’re not wrong. The scores released around back-to-school time were from a special implementation of NAEP’s Long Term Trends version. That one looked only at 9-year-olds, tested a […]

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond hosted the first in what will be a series of virtual webinars on Oct. 11 to update local educational agencies, including district and charter school administrators and classroom educators, on learning acceleration and ways schools are using billions of dollars in state funding to successfully address the learning loss from the pandemic.

/PRNewswire/ -- The gender gap in technology and STEM is real. Only one in four computing jobs are held by women, there are nearly ten male engineers for every...

Superintendent Jill Baker said the district did everything it could to plan for the return of students after their education was interrupted by a global pandemic. “But it wasn’t enough,” she said, adding this past school year was “rocky.”

/PRNewswire/ -- Supplemental Health Care (SHC) has announced a philanthropic partnership with non-profit organization TNTP (formerly known as The New Teacher...