The study authors found that parents with at least one student struggling with distance learning were 19 percentage points more likely than other parents to report anxiety. These parents also were 22 percentage points more likely to experience depression, and were 20 percentage points more likely to have trouble sleeping. In addition, they were 20 percentage points more likely to feel worried and 23 percentage points more likely to have little interest or pleasure in doing things. The results of the analysis remain consistent even after accounting for other school and demographic characteristics.
The study found that these levels of heightened mental distress were felt by parents across all socioeconomic categories, regardless of family income, the number of children struggling (above one), or the number of days that had passed since school closure.
16 Charts that Changed the Way We Thought About America’s Schools This Year
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Never before has the American education system been put under a microscope sometimes literally the way it was in 2020.
That’s because COVID-19 illustrated just how much about schools we take for granted. Education research examines all kinds of things that take place inside the walls of schools, from science lessons and gym classes to sick days and suspensions. But experts have never had to think about what might happen if all of it the hugs, the free breakfasts, the standardized tests, even the buildings themselves simply went away. This spring, that’s exactly what happened, stranding tens of millions of students in academic limbo even as th
#BTColumn – Reliability, validity and fairness at CXC
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I was invited to offer an independent assessment of this situation as I perceive it. I was invited as an educator with an interest in assessment and grading and as a Caribbean national with a demonstrated interest in advancing education quality, equity, and student achievement in the Caribbean and the wider world.
Because this is an education assessment issue, let me go to the Bible of Standards and Assessment. The most recent version is the 2014 edition of “Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing” published by the American Educational Research Association [AERA], American Psychological Association [APA], and National Council on Measurement in Education [NCME]. This book will be referred to as “th
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Teachers are unfairly penalized on their classroom observations for working in high-poverty schools with students who are academically disadvantaged, a new study finds
. And those teachers are often Black leading to a significant race gap in teacher-evaluation scores.
The study found that the typical Black teacher in Chicago ranked at the 37th percentile in classroom observation scores, while the typical white teacher ranked at the 55th percentile. But once researchers controlled for certain school and classroom factors, including student poverty, behavioral infractions, and test scores from the previous year, the gap disappeared.
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