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The crcular and rigid system for rating textbook quality pushes schools to adopt textbooks because they are aligned to the Common Core rather than their success at teaching students.
Test scores in elementary school math and reading plummeted to levels unseen for decades, according to the first nationally representative report comparing student achievement from just before the pandemic to performance two years later.
Bottom quarter on national test include many with parents who graduated college.
May 4, 2020, marks 40 years to the day when the U.S. Department of Education opened its doors. The Cabinet-level agency is no longer in its infancy; Americans have four decades of data on academic outcomes by which to measure its impact on their children. For their part, teachers and school leaders have 40 years of an ever-increasing program count, and a mounting bureaucratic compliance burden by which they can measure the impact the agency has had on their working lives.
A recent standardized assessment report showed more elementary and middle school students began the 2021 school year below grade level.