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Four Insights into U.S. Students’ Drop in Math & Science on International Test

Kevin Mahnken

This Is a Critical Moment for High-Impact Tutoring. Don’t Give up on It

Sara Kerr & Kathy Bendheim

Schools Need Tutoring Help from Their Communities — But Doing It Well Isn’t Easy

Jennifer Bronson

Education Futures Council: America’s Schools Are Facing a ‘Public Emergency’

The 74

How Are English Learners Doing? The Answers Right Now Are Broad and Incomplete

Leslie Villegas

Equity, Impact, Transparency: Rethinking Ed Vendor Contracts After ESSER

Patricia Burch

Tutoring Reality Check: Exclusive Research Shows Gains Shrink as Programs Expand

Kevin Mahnken

ESSER Post-Mortem: How Did Districts Spend $190B in Federal Funds? Did It Work?

Chad Aldeman

For the Sake of America’s School Children, Congress Must Keep AmeriCorps Going

Robert Balfanz & Kevin Huffman

4 Ways to Help Middle Schoolers Recover from COVID Learning Losses in Reading

Miah Daughtery

In the Rush to COVID Recovery, Did We Forget About Our Youngest Learners?

Lauren Camera

Exclusive: Study Finds COVID Harmed Cognitive Skills of Students — and Teachers

Greg Toppo

America Risks Losing a Whole Generation of Kids. Today’s Schools Can’t Help Them

Robin Lake

Testing Data Shows Middle Schoolers Are Further Behind in Science Than in 2021

Kevin Mahnken

A Lot Has Changed Over the Past 40 Years — But Not America’s School System. Why?

Margaret Raymond

Study: State Report Cards Need Big Improvements in Tracking COVID Learning Loss

Morgan Polikoff

Richmond Pilot Program Asks: What Happens If a School Year Is 200 Days, Not 180?

Jason Kamras & Taikein Cooper

To Boost Reading Scores, Maryland School Takes Curriculum Out of Teachers’ Hands

Jeffrey A. Lawson

Building a Generation of ‘Math People’: Inside K-8 Program Boosting Confidence

Marianna McMurdock

Improving Schools: Focus on What’s Best for Kids, Not Most Convenient for Adults

Michael T. Hartney

Experience Shows High-Dosage Tutoring Provides Lasting Impact for Student Success

Sara Krauss

The Pandemic Set Young Kids Back. Their Struggle to Recover is Especially Acute

Kalyn Belsha

To Maximize the Impact of Curriculum Mandates, Follow the Science of Reading

Gary Willow

Students Headed to High School Are Academically a Year Behind, COVID Study Finds

Linda Jacobson

Indiana’s New ILEARN Test Scores Show Student Progress Remained Stagnant in 2024

Casey Smith

Unlikely Ed Allies Join Forces to Cut Chronic Absenteeism in Half

Amanda Geduld

Growing ‘What Works’: Indianapolis Summer Learning Goes Statewide

Patrick O’Donnell

NYC Bets New, Uniform High School Math Curriculum Will Boost Student Test Scores

Jo Napolitano

Studies: Pandemic Aid Lifted Scores, But Not Enough To Make Up for Lost Learning

Kevin Mahnken

‘Astonishing’ Absenteeism, Trauma Rates Root of Academic Crisis

Marianna McMurdock

‘Summer Boost’ Shows Promise in Halting COVID Slide

Greg Toppo

Schools Can Close Summer Learning Gaps with These 4 Strategies

Rhea Almeida

Learning Amid Chaos in the Arkansas Delta: What the School Research Shows Us

Kevin Mahnken

Gaps Widening Between Indiana’s Highest- and Lowest-Performing Students

Chad Aldeman

Study: Lengthy School Closures Were Especially Hard on High-Achieving Students

Brandon L. Wright

After Literacy Wins, Oakland REACH’s Parent ‘Liberators’ Take on Math Tutoring

Jo Napolitano

Schools' New Normal Post-COVID Must Emphasize Attendance, Tutoring, Summer Class

Lindsay Dworkin

Inspiring: 4 Teen ‘STEM Superstars’ Build Inventions to Address Cancer, Suicide

The 74

Americans Have Yet to Accept COVID’s Tragedy — And Are Taking It Out On Schools

Conor P. Williams

These Fed-Up Parents Fought California’s Pandemic Schooling and Won. Now What?

Carolyn Jones

Lost Learning = Lost Earning, an Equation that Could Cost the U.S. $31 Trillion

Kevin Mahnken

Interactive: See How Student Achievement Gaps Are Growing in Your State

Chad Aldeman

4 Barriers to Student Success that Educators Need to Be Talking About

Bridget Hamre

Why Now Is the Perfect Time to Redesign the New American High School

Robin Lake

Academic Recovery’s a Long-Term Challenge. Tutoring Must Be Part of the Solution

Kevin Huffman

Helping Teens Succeed: We Must Blur the Lines Between HS, College & Careers

Jared Polis

6 Ways Schools Can Better Engage Parents Worried About COVID Learning Loss

Keri Rodrigues

When Getting Good Grades and Working at Grade Level Are Not the Same Thing

Lauren Wagner

One-on-One Tutoring Program Bets Big on Teaching Kindergartners to Read

Julian Roberts-Grmela

Rose-Colored Recovery: Study Says Parents Don’t Grasp Scope of Learning Loss

Linda Jacobson

Closing Education’s ‘Honesty Gap’: Greater Transparency for Parents After COVID

Aimee Guidera

Learning Loss, AI and the Future of Education: Our 24 Most-Read Essays of 2023

Bev Weintraub

America Must Recommit to a Learning Recovery Moonshot With High-Dosage Tutoring

Nakia Towns

American Math Scores Fall on International Test — But Many Other Countries Suffered More

Kevin Mahnken

10 Teens Talk Mental Health, AI & What It’s Like to Be a Student in 2023

Cara Pangelinan

As Students Struggle With Math, One Indiana High Schooler Refinds Her Footing

Jo Napolitano

Team Teaching Is the Best Use of ESSER Funds to Boost Student Learning after COVID

Emily Ayscue Hassel & Bryan C. Hassel

A Tale of Extremes: More High & Low Scores in Ohio’s K-Shaped Learning Recovery

Patrick O’Donnell

Public Invited to Help Decide What Stays and Goes in St. Paul School Budget

Beth Hawkins

Test Scores Show Rhode Island Students Still Recovering to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Janine Weisman

Latest Maryland Test Results Show Wide Achievement Disparities

William J. Ford

74 Interview: Stanford Economist Eric Hanushek on COVID’s Trillion-Dollar Impact on Students

Kevin Mahnken

Attendance Gap: New Data from Minnesota Reveals Chasm in Chronic Absenteeism

Beth Hawkins

How States Can Make Summer Learning Programs Meaningful and Open to All Students

Allison Crean Davis

Grant-Winning Nonprofit Sees Volunteer Tutors as Key to Closing Math Learning Gap

Sierra Lyons

Many Parents Don’t Know How Kids Are Doing in School: 9 Insights into Pandemic Recovery & Aftermath

John Bailey

Who Makes a Good Tutor? You Don’t Need a College Degree to Be Great

Amanda Neitzel & Jen Krajewski

How Schools Can Recover Fully: 10 Insights into Pandemic Aftermath in U.S. Education

John Bailey

New Study: Kids Who Scored Worst on NAEP Missed the Most School Before the Test

Phyllis W. Jordan

Slow Literacy Gains, Long COVID in Kids: 7 Insights into Pandemic Recovery and Aftermath in U.S. Schools

John Bailey

Pandemic Emergency May Be Officially Over, but Education’s Long COVID Continues

Lindsay Dworkin

A Hearing on Learning Loss and a Preview of the Election Battle to Come

Linda Jacobson

COVID Learning Recovery: New Hampshire Kids Now Learning Faster Than in 2019

Ethan DeWitt

Crisis in Teaching Quality May Explain Stagnant Learning Recovery, Report Finds

Marianna McMurdock

Experts: COVID Hurt Kids’ Math Learning More Than Reading and Writing

Scott A. Imberman & Katharine O. Strunk

America’s Education System Is a Mess, and It’s Students Who Are Paying the Price

David Steiner

$190B Later, Reason to Worry Relief Funds Won’t Curb COVID’s Academic Crisis

Linda Jacobson & Asher Lehrer-Small

New Indiana ILEARN Scores Show Improvement, but Still No Pre-Pandemic Bounce-Back

Casey Smith

‘Education’s Long COVID’: New Data Shows Recovery Stalled for Most Students

Linda Jacobson

New NAEP Scores Reveal the Failure of Pandemic Academic Recovery Efforts

Vladimir Kogan

NAEP Scores ‘Flashing Red’ After a Lost Generation of Learning for 13-Year-Olds

Kevin Mahnken

Summer School Priority: Help Students Rebound From Historically Bad Math Scores

Jo Napolitano

Schools Must Know If Their Learning-Loss Programs Work — Before ESSER Funds End

Anu Malipatil

This Rural Illinois District Curbed Learning Loss With Help From a Burmese Church

Asher Lehrer-Small

New Research Underscores Widespread, Pandemic-Fueled Learning Loss in Indiana

Casey Smith

Tutoring Groups in 20 States Receive Grants to Expand & Help More Kids Catch Up

The 74

The Terrible Truth: Current Solutions to COVID Learning Loss Are Doomed to Fail

Margaret Raymond

Exclusive 74 Interview: Bill Gates Calls U.S. Education a ‘Challenged Space’

Kevin Mahnken

How Are DC Schools Regaining Progress for Students? New Dashboard Has Some Clues

Bisi Oyedele

How Should Schools Spend ESSER Summer School Funds? RI Case Study Has Some Clues

Sara Kerr & Nate Schwartz

COVID Learning Loss: Missouri Scores Show Dramatic Drop in Student Performance

Joshua Parrish

Here We Go Again: L.A. Adds Instructional Days to Fight Learning Loss, Union Balks

Mike Antonucci

Students in 4-Day-a-Week Schools Can Suffer COVID-Level Learning Losses

Christopher Doss, Andrea Phillips & Rebecca Kilburn

Hochul’s Proposal for Small-Group Tutoring Blocked by NY State Legislature

Asher Lehrer-Small

Less Classroom Time For Students? New Washington Bill Would Trim 4 Hours a Week

Joshua Parrish

As Schools Close for 3-Day Walkout, Could L.A. Strike Accelerate Learning Loss?

Mike Antonucci

In Rare Move, New Mexico Adds Weeks’ Worth of Extra K-12 Class Time

Kevin Mahnken

Gov. Youngkin Announces New Slate of Efforts to Address Learning Loss in Virginia

Nathaniel Klein

Iowa Schools Cutting Budgets, Bracing for 2024 Financial Pain as COVID Aid Ends

Joshua Parrish

Q&A: Education Expert on Tutoring, Learning Recovery & Schools’ Staffing Woes

Asher Lehrer-Small
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