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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Allison Shelley for EDU Educators around the country have embraced the “science of reading” in their classrooms, but that doesn’t mean there’s a truce in the reading wars. A new meta-analysis confirms that the answer is no. Researchers worried that educators were overemphasizing auditory training.

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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

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. A pair of Stanford University education researchers studied whether the settlement made a difference, and their conclusion was that yes, it did.

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

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The brand-new program delivers research-based, easy-to-use content and teaching tools that support and extend core literacy instruction, giving educators what they need to help students develop reading proficiency. Educators interested in exploring Savvas Essentials: Foundational Reading can sign up for a free, 30-day digital trial.

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

eSchool News

Our partnership with OpenSciEd gives middle school teachers access to free, standards-aligned, technology-integrated instructional materials to support this work. Vernier Software & Technology has led the innovation of educational, scientific data-collection technology for over 40 years.

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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. The analysis also found no improvement in in social and emotional skills, although there was a tiny boost to student motivation.

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

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The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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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. School communities need to grow a culture of innovation, which includes growing educators’ capacities to design, build, test, and collaborate. A couple years ago, Van Ness Elementary in D.C.

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