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What the Data Tells Us About How ESSER Spending Did and Didn’t Help Schools Recover

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Both reading and math scores increased in districts in states like Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee, where the rate of ESSER spending per student was relatively high (over $1,000) from 2022 to 2023.

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A dismal report card in math and reading

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In reading, students slid below the devastatingly low achievement levels of 2022, which many educators had hoped would be a nadir. Administered by the federal government, it tracks student performance in fourth and eighth grades and serves as a national yardstick of achievement. That’s a big deal. They offset each other.

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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

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In Asia and Oceania, Spanish rule for over 300 years introduced Catholicism and centralized governance in places like present-day Guam , the Philippines, and Taiwan, deeply altering the identity and languages of these regions. Without a clear understanding of what lies within their vaults, museums cannot fulfill this duty.

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Government Funds Shielded Colleges From Extinction. In 2022, the Stakes Will Change.

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That means for many institutions, HEERF funds will cease to be accessible in the year 2022. Based on recent guidelines from the Department of Education, institutions of higher education generally must expend their HEERF grants within one year of the date when the department processed funds for each specific grant.

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A trend colleges might not want applicants to notice: It’s becoming easier to get in

The Hechinger Report

As enrollment in colleges and universities continues to decline — down by more than two million students , or 10 percent, in the 10 years ending 2022 — they’re not only casting wider nets. percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012, AEI found. I think they’re casting the net further and wider.”

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Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

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Average reading scores of fourth and eighth graders scoring in the 90th percentile werent statistically different from 2022 to 2024, and scores among high flyers in both grades have held fairly steady over the past three decades. That would more than make up for the reading backslide NAEP recorded between 2022 and 2024, Barnett argues.

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Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is ‘fundamentally flawed’

The Hechinger Report

Beginning in the late 1980s, the federal government started to collect data on these two important, confounding factors academic achievement before diagnosis and disability severity so that policymakers could see how well students were faring under the 1975 federal law that mandates support for educating students with disabilities.

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