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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

In fact, controversies are emerging about an important but less understood aspect of learning to read: phonemic awareness. A new meta-analysis confirms that the answer is no. If you teach blending and segmenting using letters, students are learning to read and spell.” And that’s the source of the current debate.

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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

The Hechinger Report

In 2017, public interest lawyers sued California because they claimed that too many low- income Black and Hispanic children weren’t learning to read at school. The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading.

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Vernier Software & Technology Launches E-Book to Support Hands-On Science Learning for Middle School Students

eSchool News

to support engaging, hands-on science learning for middle school students. which is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), to help students gain a deeper understanding of the initial scientific concepts being taught and to motivate their learning throughout the remainder of the unit. “Our

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Brand-New Savvas Essentials: Foundational Reading Program Earns Highest Rating from EdReports   

eSchool News

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, is proud to announce that its Savvas Essentials: Foundational Reading © 2023 supplemental literacy program has received the highest rating of “All-Green” from EdReports.

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PROOF POINTS: $1.5 billion in recovery funds go to afterschool

The Hechinger Report

This figure makes after-school programs the fourth most popular way to spend federal funds to address learning loss, behind summer school, software and instructional materials. Another 5 percent of the state money is to be spent on overcoming learning loss, which can also be used on after-school programs.

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With Budget Cuts Looming, Here’s How Districts Will Decide What to Keep or Cut

Edsurge

Add to that the costs of designing and implementing new remote learning programs, on top of childcare, transportation, and everything else that will inevitably increase the cost of doing business. The Learning Policy Institute calculates the cost of distance learning at about $500 per student for a total of $3.7

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How Edtech Can Help Build a Blueprint for Real Change in K-12

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Curriculum and instructional materials live on websites, in the cloud, on paper, in LMS’s, in Google Drive or OneDrive. The Challenge: Continuous Learning and Redesign While such an interoperability and integration endeavor would be a game changer, it still doesn’t go far enough. A couple years ago, Van Ness Elementary in D.C.

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