One of Summers County’s own just got awarded one of the top Girl Scout awards after helping address a growing problem in the ...
Most of the United States saw declines in reading and math achievement on standardized tests between 2019 and 2022. Those declines happened in both fourth- and eighth-grade in a large majority of ...
The role remote education played. By Sarah Mervosh Months into the current school year, most American students are still trying to make up for what they lost during the pandemic. This fall, we saw ...
American schools and the ways students learn have changed since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago. Educators nationwide have said that their students returned to classrooms after the ...
(TNS) — School districts that switched to remote instruction during the coronavirus pandemic did far worse on spring 2021 standardized tests than those that kept their classrooms open, according to a ...
In the immortal words of Cady Heron, protagonist of cult-classic phenomenon 'Mean Girls,' math is beautiful because “it’s the same in every language.” Even for those of us who are not necessarily math ...
Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.
The past two years of the pandemic have brought an unrelenting stream of disruptions to regular schooling: building closures, quarantines, staff shortages. And study after study has shown that ...
Starting in the spring of 2020, school boards and superintendents across the country faced a dreadful choice: Keep classrooms open and risk more COVID-19 deaths, or close schools and sacrifice ...
New research is showing the high costs of long school closures in some communities. By David Leonhardt When Covid-19 began to sweep across the country in March 2020, schools in every state closed ...
"Sometimes I feel like I’m just talking to myself," one teacher said. At the end of a math lesson that Diane Moon taught virtually earlier this month to her students, the middle school teacher in ...