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Seven successful strategies for literate assessment
Beth Tarasawa and colleagues share research-based assessment practices that support classroom learning.
By: Beth Tarasawa
Topics: Empowering educators
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Student test engagement and its impact on achievement gap estimates
In this Brookings Institute Chalkboard blog, James Soland shares his work investigating how student test engagement may shape achievement gaps.
By: James Soland
Topics: School & test engagement, Student growth & accountability policies
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New NWEA Research Explores the Relationships Between Poverty and School Performance
Learn what research shows about how the use of achievement data as the predominant metric for determining school success may perpetuate education inequity.
By: Andrew Hegedus
Topics: Equity, High-growth schools & practices
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Three research-based culturally responsive teaching strategies
Strategies from the Multnomah County Partnership for Education Research can help strengthen student-teacher relationships and improve student achievement.
By: Beth Tarasawa
Topics: Empowering educators, Equity
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Summer learning loss: Does it widen the achievement gap?
Megan Kuhfeld shares work exploring how differing patterns of summer learning loss or growth may impact academic achievement gaps.
By: Megan Kuhfeld
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Summer learning loss: What we know and what weāre learning
In this blog, Megan Kuhfeld shares background on what we know about summer learning loss, and the significant gaps that remain in our understanding that drive her work to take a fresh ā and deeper ā look at the phenomenon.
By: Megan Kuhfeld
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How the Primary Grades Can Save Us: Growing American Reading Comprehension
When recent NAEP results came out, the bleak headline was that American students are not getting better at reading comprehension. When the NAEP folks convened a panel of reading experts in early April, the primary grades got called out as one potential culprit. So what needs re-evaluating in K-3 literacy? One reasonable place to look is atĀ oral reading fluencyĀ and theĀ foundational skillsĀ that feed word decoding.
Topics: Early learning, Academic content, Reading & language arts