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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr. of a standard deviation higher, on average.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

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APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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