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Students Using Lexia Core5 Reading Outperformed Their Peers On the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts/Literacy Assessment

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The schools were highlighted in a recently released report which compared the students’ performance on the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts/Literacy (SBAC ELA) assessment. Our study evaluated Core5’s impact on more than one million California elementary students’ ELA achievement during the 2022-23 school year.

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From school year to summer: Why reliable edtech matters to boost literacy

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In a landscape where English proficiency and reading levels vary widely, it’s essential that we provide high-quality, credible resources that offer both language accessibility and academic rigor. World Book’s digital platform delivers just that. But accessibility alone isn’t enough. In fact, every teacher is a reading teacher.

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Teaching Creativity and Durable Skills in an AI World

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How do I evaluate the learning that’s going on or students’ ability to work through the problem? Justin Hodgson Slover: The problem is that schools are organized around courses like Algebra I, English 10 and biology. How do I evaluate the learning that’s going on or students’ ability to work through the problem?

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How 4 districts use AI tools to transform education

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The Gems evaluate the uploaded information and offer a review of the district’s current curriculum. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is using NotebookLM and Gemini for curriculum review and district guidance.

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Ignite Reading Again Approved as 1:1 High-Dosage Early Literacy Tutoring Provider in Massachusetts

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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s administration called on her state to invest heavily in high-dosage tutoring (HDT) earlier this year, earmarking $25 million in her state budget proposal to help accelerate literacy growth, “complementing the more systemic, long-term improvement work” being supported under the administration’s five-year literacy (..)

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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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million English learners in K-12 public schools in the fall of 2021, up from 4.6 Evaluate Vendors With 17 percent of its 12,700 students classified as English language learners as well as a significant refugee population, Jenks Public Schools in Oklahoma used the CITES framework to develop a robust vendor-evaluation process. “We

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Beyond formulas: Embracing complexity in writing instruction

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High-stakes standardized assessment has led to a focus on compliance, production, and quality control, which has encouraged the use of formulas to simplify and standardize writing instruction, the student writing produced, and the process of evaluation of student work. The English Journal, 77 (6), 57-58. A., & Fox, R. Rittel, H.

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