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(The Center Square) – A new working paper analyzed testing data from 2.1 million students in 49 states plus D.C. and found that “remote instruction was a primary driver of

A new study found that students in high-poverty schools that offered remote instruction for most of 2020-2021 experienced huge learning losses.

One solution to the COVID slide? Homeschooling.

Background: Current evidence from studies on green space and child prosocial behaviour suggests a paucity of studies investigating the plausible role of green space quality in shaping the development of prosocial behaviour. This study aimed to examine longitudinal association between green space quality and prosocial behaviour among children. Methods: We analysed 10-year longitudinal data (2004–2014) from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), a nationally representative cohort ...

New legislation would raise awareness about educational disparities across the state. But first the state must address the stratification within schools.

Is The Pandemic A Chance To Reimagine Special Education? by Cayla Bamberger, The Hechinger Report | February 4, 2021 Single mom Nicole Vaughn has spent the better part of her adult life advocating for her five adopted children with disabilities. But when schools shuttered for the coronavirus last spring, Vaughn gained a slew of new responsibilities, like helping her kids access virtual classrooms and coordinating the special education services they receive. “I had to send emails to the speech...

Dan Goldhaber is the Director of the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER, caldercenter.org) at the American Institutes for Research and the Director of the Center for Education Data & Research (CEDR, cedr.us) at the University of Washington. Both CALDER and CEDR use administrative data to do research that informs decisions about policy and practice. ​ Dans work focuses on issues of educational productivity and reform at the K-12 level, including the broad ar...

This week has seen restaurants open to indoor dining and public schools closed to in-person learning, but that scenario won’t last much longer. The board of health’s decision Monday to put Pitkin County under Red level restrictions confines restaurants in Aspen, Redstone, Snowmass Village and other locales to outdoor dining and takeout meals only, starting Sunday. Yet the Aspen School District isn’t bound to the same color-code restrictions that businesses follow. The district instead mak...

Outinnovate their competitors overseas. and romney is only going to help the wealthiest folks who arent looking for the break hes forwarding. mike, if i could, i want to touch on the put up or shut up moment. mitt romney says we need to, this is a man who refuses to release his tax returns to the american public. a man who misrepresented in private equity where he said he created hundreds of thousands of jobs but we know he outsourced instead. somebody who hid the hard drives from his tenure as ...

Think progress put out a great piece today that showed -- i think its important we remind people and most remember that the longitudinal data shows us does not work. wages tend to stagnate. investment isnt better. the economy grows a little bit slower. again, dont you even have to take it from president obama or the democrats. the numbers actually tell the story. what theyre pushing is snake oil and it doesnt work and hasnt worked for this country. >> fairy dust, slight of hand, snake oil. great...