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View Comments Two top El Paso Independent School District administrators were put on leave Monday, ahead of discussions on an internal audit into contracted academic services Wednesday. Deputy Superintendent of Finance and Operations Carmen Arrieta-Candelaria and Chief Academics Officer Tamekia Brown were put on paid administrative leave, district spokesperson Gustavo Reveles confirmed, though the reason was not disclosed. Arrieta-Candelaria and Brown could not be reached for comment via their EPISD email addresses.  At the EPISD's regular board meeting Tuesday, in which the district's 20...

Coronavirus: £13.5bn education package ‘needed to prevent pupils from being left behind’ Friday, May 14, 2021 The Early Years Pupil Premium should be increased in line with that of primary schools to reverse the damage to children’s learning during the pandemic, according to a new report which sets out fully-costed education recovery plans. The Education Policy Institute is calling for £13.5 bn in Government funding to repair children's learning lost during the pandemic Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Nursery World and ...

SIIA Announces Education Technology Finalists for 2021 CODiE Awards 152 education technology and service products recognized in peer-reviewed awards program News provided by Share this article WASHINGTON, May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of the 36th annual SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announces the 152 education technology finalists. Finalists, selected by expert reviewers, represent the most innovative and impactful products from technology developers, online learning services and related technologies. "The CODiE Awards recognize the mo...

A new report using data from 3.8 million students reveals that, in large part, students are performing near pre-pandemic expectation levels in reading, in particular in elementary grades, while they lag a bit more in math. But students in middle school are performing poorly as measured against pre-pandemic expectations, as are students who are members of underrepresented and at-risk populations.

Overall, the number of books read among children dropped compared with previous years, but the young people were reading more challenging books. JK Rowling dominated the leaderboard of most popular books at primary level as pupils continued to pick up the Harry Potter series. Other popular authors at primary included David Walliams, Julia Donaldson and Roald Dahl. At second level the most popular book was One of Us is Lying by Karen M McManus. Other popular authors at secondary school included Suzanne Collins, Rick Riordan and Philip Pulman. Renaissance director John Moore said reading had he...