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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

The Hechinger Report

In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. Children who had won lotteries to attend these charter schools had higher reading scores than students who lost the lotteries. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge curriculum. Sign up for the Proof Points newsletter.

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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

But it was impossible to tell whether the Core Knowledge curriculum itself made the difference or if the boost to reading scores could be attributed to the fact that all nine schools were highly regarded charter schools and were doing something else that made a difference.

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The building blocks of math that students need to excel — but aren’t always getting

The Hechinger Report

Often Ill go into classrooms with literacy stuff all over the walls, but nothing in terms of number, said Nancy Jordan, professor of learning sciences at the University of Delaware and author of Number Sense Interventions. How many more treats does Lyle need?

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Learning by Design: How Design Tech High School Uses Research

Digital Promise

According to Ken Montgomery, Executive Director of Design Tech High School (“d.tech”), a charter school in Northern California, “The world is going to change quickly and unpredictably, so the best thing that we can do for kids is give them a mindset and skillset that whatever the world is like, they can succeed and find their path.”.

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Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

The Hechinger Report

Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.” The San Diego charter school, known as HSHMC, has expected content teachers to integrate literacy into their lessons since its 2007 founding.

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Can kids get passionate about learning — and develop the persistence to follow where it leads? One school has a plan

The Hechinger Report

It’s a hard thing to measure, but learning science suggests that this is the case.”. Related: It all started in a German castle: How wilderness programs shape some urban schools.