Page 38 - Evaluation Association News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

WILMINGTON — To help provide teachers with information about their students’ pandemic-related gaps in learning, Wilmington City Schools (WCS) w

The educational impact of COVID 19 on Black kids will be generational A young Black student working out a math problem (Photo credit: Shutterstock / Rido) Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Black kids across the nation were not truly benefiting from participation in government public schools. In Baltimore, an analysis in 2017 of testing data of city schools found one-third of high schools in 2016 had zero students proficient in math. A recent report revealed that one student attending Baltimore Public High School just passed three classes in four years, resulting in a rank near the top h...

Should Oregon Schools Stop Standardized Tests This Year? With so little time in school buildings, districts are looking to opt out and scale back. But at what cost? By Julia Silverman 4/13/2021 at 5:38pm Schools around Oregon are grappling with standardized testing in a pandemic school year. Next week, thousands of middle and high schoolers around the Portland metro area will return to school buildings for the first time since March of 2020, after Gov. Kate Brown ordered that every public school district in the state needed to provide some face-to-face time with teachers before the end of th...

Education Organizations Release Policy Considerations to Inform Equitable Change for Assessment and Accountability Systems Report from convenings of 100+ experts proposes federal, state actions to address immediate needs and long-term improvements News provided by Share this article PORTLAND, Ore. and WASHINGTON, April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  NWEA and Education Reform Now (ERN), in conjunction with multiple organizations representing state departments of education, school districts, policy and advocacy groups, and universities, today released recommendations and potential policy options ...

In a pandemic year marked by shuttered schools, technology barriers and staggered reopenings, failing grades and student absences have grown across Michiana. Course failures have more than doubled in the South Bend Community School Corp. this year and chronic absenteeism has “skyrocketed,” one administrator said. With in-person instruction increasing this month and the state’s spring testing window around the corner, educators are using what they’ve learned over the last year to better understand learning loss and prepare for an eventual return to a more normal school year...