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As a new legislative session kicks off, education reform will be a top issue for lawmakers to tackle, Missouri House Speaker Rob Vescovo declared Wednesday. Lawmakers from across the state returned to the Capitol in Jefferson City Wednesday afternoon, where they swore in members and elected Vescovo, a Republican from Arnold, as speaker. With the coronavirus still spreading throughout the state resulting in thousands of new cases each day, the first day of the 2021 legislative session felt its impact with normally bustling halls eerily empty and House members sworn in in batches, limiting the ...

Teaching math during pandemic doesn’t always add up Caren Beckett Tena Roepke LIMA — Learning math is hard enough during regular times, but during a pandemic, it’s a whole different story. For those schools that went to remote learning in the spring, it proved to be a challenge for teachers as well as students. “I consider the most important part of my class to be the time when I’m interacting one on one with students. I teach the lesson, but then I always provide time for them to work on the assignment while I’m there to help,” said Nick McCoy, a math teacher at Bath High Sch...

The closure of millions of schools worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic has stoked fears of a “lost generation” of students. Education experts say this isn’t inevitable, though, and that targeted interventions for the most vulnerable have been shown to make up lost ground.  As with any contingency, planning can make a huge difference. Another lesson is that children can learn coping mechanisms during crises like the current pandemic, skills that can prove valuable for facing future challenges.  Why We Wrote This Societies that rebuilt their education systems after war and natural d...

'The Ingraham Angle' guest host says 'unscrupulous' and 'greedy' teachers unions are to blame. The test results are in. Consensus is building that America’s students should be back in the classroom. From the American Academy of Pediatrics, who pushed for a return to in-person learning in June, to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Robert Redfield, who called schools "one of the safest places [kids] can be," government officials are finally beginning to acknowledge what a growing body of science has shown for a long time: Our kids need to be in school. Unfortunately, this hard-fough...

Flexibility is Critical for Spring Testing and Beyond; It is Time to Transform Assessment and Accountability Systems NWEA releases K-12 assessment policy recommendations for the 117th Congress and the Biden administration News provided by Share this article Share this article PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the release of NWEA's research on impact of COVID-19 school disruptions on learning, the not-for-profit research and assessment provider announced today K-12 assessment policy recommendations for the incoming Biden administration and Congress. The recommendations f...