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Lexia Nationwide Report Finds 80% of Students Using Lexia Core5 Reading Did Not Experience Literacy Learning Loss During Remote and Hybrid Learning in the 2020-21 Academic Year

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

23, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, today released new research titled “Using Lexia Core5 Reading to Address Learning Loss and Accelerate Learning: Insights from a 2020-21 Nationwide Study.” BOSTON ( Sept. Over 40% of students who used Core5 exceeded their MAP Growth targets.

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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

In 2019, a group of researchers, led by James Kim, a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, randomly selected 15 of the district’s 30 elementary schools to teach first graders special knowledge-building lessons for three years, through third grade. Students were also given related books to read during the summer.

Learning

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OPINION: Struggling readers need standards and structure based on the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year. After the Act’s passage, Mississippi aligned with the science of reading.

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Texas Ramps Up Distance Learning with ST Math

MIND Research Institute

MARCH 1, 2021

As 2020 came to a close, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced that ST Math is freely available to all Texans through TEA's Texas Home Learning 3.0 (THL Since free access was announced in December 2020, over one million students from 1,500 schools across 240 districts have signed up for ST Math.

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New Research from Curriculum Associates: Student Achievement Shows Concerns and Bright Spots in Recovery—More Students Are Behind in Phonics but Some Schools Are Exceeding Expectations

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We’re beginning the third full academic year since the pandemic began, and many school communities are still grappling with the impact of the massive 2020 disruptions,” said Dr. Kristen Huff, vice president of assessment and research at Curriculum Associates. In math, student achievement in all grades is still below pre-pandemic levels.

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OPINION: It’s time. Let’s use different ways of teaching children to read

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Only 53 percent of teacher education programs “provide sufficient coverage of early reading components,” the National Council on Teacher Quality found in their 2020 review of elementary teacher training programs. Related: Retraining an entire states’ elementary teachers in the science of reading.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2023

However, before the courts resolved that legal question, the litigants settled the case in 2020. 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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Carnegie Learning Adds Multilingual Math and Literacy Tutors in Gadsden ISD

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Demand for high-dosage tutoring is growing among students in all grades at Gadsden ISD, led by elementary-age students, who are reaping the benefits of one-on-one and small-group tutoring. Instruction that aligns with districts’ standards, scope, and sequence. Carnegie Learning has the largest certified tutoring team in the U.S.,

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Florida Department of Education Approves Lexia Learning for ELA Intervention Courses

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

BOSTON (June 8, 2021) – Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that Florida’s Commissioner of Education has approved Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) as curriculum in elementary intervention courses. The Florida Department of Education reviews instructional materials by subject on a five-year adoption cycle.

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How Districts Can Develop a Comprehensive Plan for Remote Learning Come Fall

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

Staggering student schedules helps with social distancing, but class sizes in Clark County were as high as 40 in some elementary schools before the coronavirus emerged. Our district, which started the 2019-2020 school year with 750 openings, has hundreds of vacancies each year.

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#AskExcelinEd: Amid COVID-19, how can states prepare exiting 3rd graders to ‘read to learn’ in 4th grade?

ExcelinEd

MAY 12, 2020

for the 2019-2020 school year. The 2019-2020 school year began with business as usual. Meanwhile, North Carolina elementary and middle school students will not receive traditional grades at all. Missing State End-of-year Assessment Data. Because of COVID-19, the U.S. Changing the “Play” in the Fourth Quarter.

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The Actual Dollars That Will Shape the New K-12 Investment Ecosystem

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It’s that most conversations about a school’s expenses don’t sync up to what’s happening in the classroom—the instruction, materials, and tools that shape the educational experience for teachers and students. The data are now being gathered and they need to be ready for publication on the 2019-2020 state and district report cards.

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Battling pandemic reading woes through teacher support, training

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Matthews, a former tutoring aide who had just come to Rehobeth Elementary School, was used to working with students who needed some extra help with reading. Third-grade teacher Scotty Matthews works with a student at Rehobeth Elementary in Houston County, Alabama, on Monday, Oct. This story also appeared in AL.com.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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PROOF POINTS: The life of an online tutor can resemble that of an assembly line worker

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Then, in the spring of 2020 when the pandemic erupted, Soka sent students home. An elementary school teacher, she was suddenly teaching five-year-olds online. But Salvatore is finding that so many students lack basic background knowledge that he sometimes teaches a mini lesson from instructional materials that he discovers online.

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PROOF POINTS: Fixing online credit recovery remains elusive

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Journalists discovered cheating scandals and evidence of low-quality instructional materials. The online software was a lot cheaper than paying a teacher and graduation rates went up. But there was a downside. Rickles and his team also created their own test to measure how much the teens actually learned.

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To Combat the ‘COVID Slide,’ Tutoring Program Pairs Elementary Schoolers with College Students

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2020

According to an EdSurge/Social Context Labs analysis of 196 school district policies published during spring 2020, nearly two-thirds offered printed instructional materials to families to use for schoolwork, a figure that was higher among high-poverty districts than low-poverty districts.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Schools have relied on those funds for the creation or expansion of summer programs and tutoring services, the purchase of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, and a plethora of other efforts to address learning gaps students experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic. Diane Myers, Ph.

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Pandemic Spurs Changes in the Edtech Schools Use, From the Classroom to the Admin Office

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Market data and services firm MDR has updated a wide-ranging survey it last fielded in 2018 about teachers and tech, and the resulting report, “How 2020 Shifted Perceptions of Technology in the Classroom,” illustrates how COVID-19’s disruptions have upended some edtech trends and accelerated others. Popular educational apps. Accelerated?

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Schools have relied on those funds for the creation or expansion of summer programs and tutoring services, the purchase of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, and a plethora of other efforts to address learning gaps students experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic. Diane Myers, Ph.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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Sneak a peek at 8 eSN K-12 Hero Awards contenders

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Ebert, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Nevada Department of Education Nominated by: Discovery Education The shift to distance education precipitated by the COVID pandemic highlighted challenges including access to technology, professional learning for educators, and high-quality instructional materials.

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The Big Picture on the 2019-20 PreK-12 Market

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to Kathy Mickey, Senior Analyst of Simba Information, all of these could impact the instructional materials marker. Regarding the digital shift, ELA and literacy materials are still mainly print with digital supplements. Report highlights. Math and science, on the other hand, are more likely to be digital.

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Plunging NAEP scores make clear the long and difficult road ahead to pandemic recovery

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Those who have been fighting to reopen schools since Fall 2020 knew that school was essential, that children faced the lowest risk of severe illness, and that children faced the most severe consequences of the prolonged shutdown. The children who have thrived are those who had the opportunity to attend school in person.”. “We

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What role should a teacher play in choosing books kids read?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I’m also limited by my experience as a secondary teacher; these conversations have less controversy in lower elementary, though discussions about appropriateness do surface more commonly in the upper elementary/middle school transition. By the end of one lower elementary year, I had fallen behind in reading speed and stamina.

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Lexia Nationwide Report Finds 80% of Students Using Lexia Core5 Reading Did Not Experience Literacy Learning Loss During Remote and Hybrid Learning in the 2020-21 Academic Year

PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

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OPINION: Struggling readers need standards and structure based on the science of reading

Texas Ramps Up Distance Learning with ST Math

New Research from Curriculum Associates: Student Achievement Shows Concerns and Bright Spots in Recovery—More Students Are Behind in Phonics but Some Schools Are Exceeding Expectations

OPINION: It’s time. Let’s use different ways of teaching children to read

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

Carnegie Learning Adds Multilingual Math and Literacy Tutors in Gadsden ISD

Florida Department of Education Approves Lexia Learning for ELA Intervention Courses

How Districts Can Develop a Comprehensive Plan for Remote Learning Come Fall

#AskExcelinEd: Amid COVID-19, how can states prepare exiting 3rd graders to ‘read to learn’ in 4th grade?

The Actual Dollars That Will Shape the New K-12 Investment Ecosystem

Battling pandemic reading woes through teacher support, training

29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

PROOF POINTS: The life of an online tutor can resemble that of an assembly line worker

PROOF POINTS: Fixing online credit recovery remains elusive

To Combat the ‘COVID Slide,’ Tutoring Program Pairs Elementary Schoolers with College Students

64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

Pandemic Spurs Changes in the Edtech Schools Use, From the Classroom to the Admin Office

65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

Sneak a peek at 8 eSN K-12 Hero Awards contenders

The Big Picture on the 2019-20 PreK-12 Market

Plunging NAEP scores make clear the long and difficult road ahead to pandemic recovery

What role should a teacher play in choosing books kids read?

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