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Growing anger against Biden administration’s mandate for standardized tests during pandemic Last month, President Biden’s Acting Assistant Education Secretary Ian Rosenblum sent a letter to state education administrators instructing them that standardized tests had to be administered to students in some form this spring, summer or fall. Rosenblum—whose previous job was executive director of the Education Trust-New York, a pro-standardized testing and pro-business organization—said states could delay the tests but they could not be canceled like last spring and they have to be conducte...

/PRNewswire/ -- NWEA, a not-for-profit research and assessment provider, announced today the launch of its MAP Reading Fluency Dyslexia Screener for...

  Education in Oregon is in a moment of urgent challenges and rapid transformation, as the pressures of the coronavirus pandemic and uprisings for racial justice have compounded longstanding issues related to economic and racial disparities. Portland charter school KairosPDX opened in 2014 with a mission to close socioeconomic and racial achievement gaps through a comprehensive curriculum that focuses on social, emotional, and cultural development in addition to academics. Cofounder Kali Ladd, who currently serves on the board of Portland Community College and the Oregon Early Learning Counc...

When leading assessment providers released data in November on pandemic-related learning loss, the news wasn’t as dreadful as some had predicted. But new attempts to dig deeper into the results from two states now show that many students, particularly those in the elementary grades, have made far less progress than they would have in a […]

Pandemic Academics: How SWFL students are performing one year later Published: February 16, 2021 7:12 PM EST Recommended Whether online or in-person, learning looks different in the age of COVID-19, and parents in Southwest Florida are worried about their kids’ education. How have our kids been coping with the pandemic and performing in school? And what does it mean for their futures? WINK News surveyed parents in our area to gauge what the impact has been to their child’s education, comparing pre-pandemic to current academic performance. Out of 36 responses, 19 parents said their kid was...