eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA– Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today that elementary students from Buchanan County, Virginia School District achieved unprecedented reading gains using Carnegie Learning’s Fast ForWord ® reading and language program. That’s major.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2021

The study found that some 800,000 students in grades 2-12 who were active in Achieve3000 Literacy from 2020-2021 achieved nearly two times their expected reading gains. Other key findings from the study: Highly engaged learners in specific student population groups attained at least 3X their expected reading growth. and four U.S.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2025

As we start breaking down barriers for girls in STEM, we cannot ignore the similar plight of boys in reading–a fundamental skill that builds upon itself in every subject. Read more about this meta-analysis and the biases it reveals from the American Institutes of Research. Find out by taking a test designed to measure bias.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The 90-minute Science of Reading-based training is now available for download at no cost to teachers, administrators, tutors, and other teachers of reading. The 90-minute Science of Reading-based training is now available for download at no cost to teachers, administrators, tutors, and other teachers of reading.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

And while the science of reading is currently in the forefront of media cycles, many other areas of education are being informed by cognitive neuroscience research. Content areas, such as math and science, and other areas like memory, executive function, and social-emotional development are being informed by research.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Math and reading scores demonstrate more variability post-COVID, primarily due to a larger gap between low and high academic achievers, according to NWEA , a nonprofit research and educational services organization serving K-12 students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Key points: Building an app for kids came with unique challenges A new era for teachers as AI disrupts instruction With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI tools for kids, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub A recent survey found that 88 percent of U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but its a tough job. So I feel like I have to apologize: Sorry, Im talking to you about math. Robinsons job is really about helping educators to sort through what she calls math trauma, an aversion caused by their own bad experiences in the subject. Math As Humanities?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most American students are still performing below their pre-pandemic counterparts in reading and math, while the yawning gap between high-achieving and low-performing students got even wider, data from the nations report card shows. But in 2024, reading scores declined even more for both fourth and eighth graders. newsletters.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Every test score, attendance log, learning app, or digital assignment generates data. Students, too, interact with data daily, whether analyzing graphs in math class or using feedback from educational platforms to guide their learning. Data literacy in a school context means more than reading charts or calculating averages.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2022

Every lower-grade teacher I know has huge numbers of students who love math but the older they get, the more those numbers shrink until by Middle School, they’re anemic, at best. The solution according to some students, is to instill the cerebral skills that support math prior to kindergarten. Math Games in the Classroom.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The global health crisis forced students out of the physical classroom and into a new virtual world for nearly two grades, and their initial homework and test scores reveal a significant decrease in knowledge transfer, social skills, and core learning habits across a variety of subjects.

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eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2024

Students’ academic achievement and test scores remain flat or tend to drop during summer break, with greater losses in math than in reading, according to research by Meghan Kuhfeld, PhD, a research scientist for the Collaborative for Student Growth at NWEA and Andrew McEachin, PhD, director of the Collaborative for Student Growth at NWEA.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Similar to earlier research into math and reading, science achievement dropped early in the pandemic. “The trends tell a slightly different story than what we’ve seen in math and reading,” said Sue Kowalski, Lead Research Scientist at NWEA. months lost in reading, and up to 9.3

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m working as fast as possible to answer as many math questions as I can in 60 seconds. In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. I thought so. Probably not.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Together with professional development, S mithsonian Science for the Classroom , which is published by Carolina Biological, the leading school science supplier, was shown to raise science, math and reading performance for grades 3 to 5. The difference for female students was statistically significant. Lapp and Anne B.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Engaging children in math learning is a problem that continues relentlessly, year after year. We don’t seem to know how to fix the dropping math scores (and reading but that’s for another article). Math Scores Drop Again –December 17, 2021. Math Games in the Classroom. Math Word Problems.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Researchers at California Polytechnic State University conducted a study in 1994, which showed conclusively that the group that was given a random assortment of pitches did much better in the post test than the group that received blocked pitches—several of one kind followed by several of another—and the control group. The problem?

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

The pandemic has put students well behind in their education, with millions of children achieving below grade level in reading and math. students in grades 3-8 revealed that reading and math test scores dropped significantly from fall 2019 to fall 2021. A study by the Brookings Institution of data from 5.4

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

New national test scores, released Monday, reveal that the disruption may have been even more severe than already anticipated. Over the last two-and-a-half years, students’ math and reading scores saw a historic decline, according to the results of a Congressionally-mandated test—known as the “nation’s report card.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

eighth gradersstruggle with long-form writing on tests and classwork. Not only does this affect their ability to communicate effectively, it also affects their reading skills, because writing and literacy are closely linked. Writing improves students reading fluency. According to one analysis ,half of U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2022

. — June 17, 2022 — Benetech, the leading software for social good nonprofit, today announced two significant AI initiatives to reduce barriers to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and employment for people with disabilities and learning and thinking differences. AI for Accessible Math and Textbooks.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on the greatest challenge of all: Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. And that's how people learn math.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Students will take the test on computers and tablets at testing centers, rather than filling in scantron bubbles with their No. The test will also be shorter — two hours instead of three — thanks to shorter reading passages, and test-takers will be allowed to use a calculator for the math portions of the exam.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

Cabin John MD – Early learning leader, Learning Without Tears, today affirmed that equity and access are at the core of Phonics, Reading, and Me —its K–3 supplemental literacy program designed to help students learn the skills they need to become proficient readers. Amelia Kelly, SoapBox’s chief technology officer.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Carnegie Learning’s math solution helped them achieve even higher. Our SBAC data was the best we’ve had for math in 25 years! And we did not teach to the test. We just used Carnegie Learning Math.” We just used Carnegie Learning Math.” Carnegie Learning math moved everybody up.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Average scores for math were between 5 and 10 percentile points lower for students this year as compared to same-grade students last year. Average scores for math were between 5 and 10 percentile points lower for students this year as compared to same-grade students last year.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Georgia Department of Education (GA DOE) recently added the Classworks Reading Universal Screener assessment to two state-approved lists. The Classworks screener is now approved by the state as a Universal Reading Screener and a Qualified Dyslexia Screening Tool for Grades K–3.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2023

Results had dropped in both reading and math in nearly every state in the nation. But beyond that, what did the tests prove? It was the first time students took these biennial assessments since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and based on the results, it was quite clear our country’s students had suffered greatly.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Recent national test scores found that our country’s eighth graders are still a full school year behind pre-COVID levels in their reading and math achievements. Reading is foundational to everything in a young person’s life–in and out of the classroom. Students are struggling to read, and it’s a crisis.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

But as educators know well, access to technology alone doesn’t create educational equity –a theory proven by recent testing data: Across the country, nearly one-third of students returned to school in the fall below grade level in reading and math despite the widespread use of education technology by districts in the spring.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Jara collaborated with Edmentum to introduce a program focused on accelerating learning in core subject areas, specifically to improve math and reading scores. In an effort to get our students back on pace, we tested Exact Path to provide remediation as a supplement to our existing curriculum. NWEA MAP points on average.

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Southwest Washington Education

MAY 31, 2025

Test scores in math and reading […] Teachers Unions Bent the Education Dept. to Their WillShut It Down To Throttle Their Power | The Heritage Foundation Key Takeaways No matter how many staffers are hired, achievement gaps remain.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The new report is part of NWEA’s ongoing research effort to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted student achievement in reading and math. Academic rebounding in reading and math continued in fall 2022; however, rebounding is not even across school years and summers, especially in reading.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This is unfortunate because reading truly is the cornerstone of academic success, and students who didn’t master the skill during their elementary years can face a significant uphill battle as they complete their education. Leverage data to conduct the reading orchestra. Give them a safe space to learn.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one measuring traditional academic achievement in subjects like math, reading, and writing. Another may be a natural artist but find abstract math concepts confusing. But we havent gone far enough.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2022

PISA , the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment, measures 15-year-olds’ ability to use their reading, mathematics, and science knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges. The OECD has started working to refine its assessments to measure competences beyond the core literacies of reading, mathematics, and science.

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