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Alabama Policymakers Explore How to Increase Early Literacy Proficiency

ExcelinEd

In fact, research shows that nearly 90 percent of high school dropouts were struggling readers in third grade. Students in all eight – including Florida and Mississippi – outperform states without such policies on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). How can we help all students achieve this?

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

Rodriguez was forced into remedial math by the community college’s placement test, which assesses a student’s ability to succeed in for-credit, higher education classes. Diana Solares was aiming for a bachelor’s degree when she graduated from high school in San Diego in 2002. Photo: Brandon Quester/inewsource.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

Inside the schools, the share of students qualifying for free lunch, a federal measure of poverty, jumped from 39 percent in 2002-03 to 81 percent in 2018-19. But they also note many efforts underway to assess interventions and ensure bad actors don’t undermine the field. Meth and opioids flooded in.

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We’re asking the wrong questions about early childhood education

The Hechinger Report

Forty-five now have public pre-K and state spending on pre-K has risen by nearly 300 percent since 2002, growing from $2.4 For example, some studies focus only on a select group of children whose parents send them to pre-K, assessing the impact of a year of pre-K on children’s test scores in the first months of kindergarten.