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NEW YORK, April 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Summer can be a critical time for learning catch-up, but many parents aren’t aware their children are behind. While the New York

NEW YORK, April 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Summer can be a critical time for learning catch-up, but many parents aren’t aware their children a...

Parents can’t get their kids help if they don’t know they need it.

The 74 takes a closer look at a USC paper that claims that grade inflation and pandemic leniency are shielding the true extent to which children have fallen behind.

Harvard University researcher Tom Kane stood before a captive audience at Washington’s Omni Shoreham hotel last Wednesday, just hours after dropping the report everyone was talking about. Offering the best look yet at students’ recovery from pandemic learning loss, the report showed that students actually made impressive academic gains last school year. But achievement gaps […]

The change won’t happen overnight.

Envision the hustle and bustle of the end of a school day — students frantically stuff papers into backpacks while running to catch a rapidly departing bus; parents waiting patiently

Teachers no longer lead parent conferences at Arundel Elementary School. The school, which serves 400 students pre-kindergarten through second grade in Maryland’s Baltimore City Public Schools, is rethinking the way it operates to boost parental involvement, said first-grade teacher Kaylah Crawford. Crawford, who is in charge of family engagement at Arundel, said every student will […]

When the U.S. Department of Education released guidance on statewide assessment systems just before Thanksgiving, it was a reminder that the federal government has an important role in ensuring parents, communities and the broader public have accurate information about the academic progress of K-12 students. But getting this information into the hands of parents has […]