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How Are U.S. Students Doing in Math? About as Well as Their Parents Did in 1995

ED Surge

Their highest average score was 518 in 2015. Burdman thinks that the best way to solve the problem of slumping math scores is tackle it at all levels of government district, state and federal in the same way that officials addressed third-grade reading scores some years ago. Gaps Depending on Race While U.S.

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What We Can Learn From Red States' Approaches to Child Care Challenges

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State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help. We don't have a lot of state statutes that govern how we do pre-K, Hume said. Alabama has the flexibility to do so.

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Research shows lower test scores for fourth graders who use tablets in schools

The Hechinger Report

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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The Higher Education Model is Broken. Together We Can Fix It.

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The world’s complexity has been catapulted to a new level, and higher education is feeling the repercussions like never before. In 2015, I wrote a book responding to the declining-enrollment crisis faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country.

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U.S. education achievement slides backwards

The Hechinger Report

This was not the first drop in national test scores since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s. Scores also dropped between 2013 and 2015. Related: National test scores reveal a decade of educational stagnation.

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Both Humans and Technology Are Noisy: How Do We Move Forward?

Digital Promise

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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Teen Sleep, Brain Science and the Debate Over School Start Times

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They have essentially a different body clock that is governing when they want to fall asleep and when they want to wake up in the morning. So the issue of school start times really hit my radar in the fall of 2015. And 2015 was when he started high school. I have two kids. My oldest is now in college.