Gain insights from policy, advocacy, research, and statewide assessment experts from NWEA and across the nation as they examine complex challenges in education and illuminate opportunities for federal and state leaders to ensure that all students have excellent opportunities to learn.
For most of the 1990s and early 2000s, the percentage of eighth-graders taking Algebra 1 rose steadily as schools and districts encouraged more students to take advanced math courses. Then, after …
Author: Lindsay Dworkin, NWEA
Topics: Policy & advocacy
The percentage of students displaying chronic absenteeism—defined as missing 10% or more of school for any reason—nearly doubled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The most recent data …
Author: Megan Kuhfeld, NWEA
High-dosage tutoring is one of the most effective ways to help students quickly make up lost academic ground. Given the strong evidence base, largely from pre-pandemic years, showing that …
Declining student scores over the past year in reading, math, and civics on the Nation’s Report Card have confirmed a sobering truth that was already widely assumed by the public at large: …
Author: Carlotta Pope, Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School, and Susan Providence, Battle Creek Elementary School
The work of a teacher has infinite moving parts. There’s the upcoming required interim district assessment to prepare for. There’s the new school-wide social-emotional learning program to …
Author: Genelle Faulkner, Snowden International High School, and Mark Morrison, Renbrook School
Two things are simultaneously true and inherently contradictory: Having a standardized source of student achievement data across districts is critical for evaluating progress and identifying …
Author: Omar Araiza, Harrison Street Elementary School; Cory Cain, Pritzker College Prep; Arthur Everett, High School of Telecommunication Arts & Technology; and Daniel Gannon, Ossining High School
Across the country, teachers are beginning to plan for instruction after winter break. At some point during the second half of the school year, their calendars are marked “state …
Author: LaTanya Pattillo, NWEA, and Evan Stone, Educators for Excellence
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