Blog Posts
Getting Ready for PISA
The latest scores from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) will be released on December 5 at 11:00 AM Paris time (5 AM in New York City and 2AM in Los Angeles).
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The U.S. Homework Load Continues to Plunge
In short, yes, homework continued to decline. Like so many trends in education that began before covid--public school enrollment losses, stagnant test scores, reports of disruptive students, chronic absenteeism--the pandemic seemed to magnify, but not initiate, trends that had started earlier.
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More Evidence that the CA Math Framework Cites Flawed Research
In Education Next I criticized the proposed California Math Framework for basing recommendations on bad evidence. The State of California now seems to agree that using a particular assessment, going by the acronym of MARS (a collection of math tasks) to evaluate student achievement is unwarranted. In May, the California State Board of Education considered and rejected the test when issuing a List of Valid and Reliable Assessments required by California Education Code Section 47607.2.
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My Comments to the California State Board of Education on the proposed Math Framework
I write this letter to oppose the proposed California Math Framework. My comments are a distillation of a lengthier analysis presented in the Spring 2023 issue of Education Next, "California's New Math Framework Doesn't Add Up."
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Literacy and NAEP Proficient
In February, 2023 Bari Weiss produced a podcast, “Why 65% of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read” and Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist, wrote “ Two-Thirds of Kids Struggle to Read, and We Know How to Fix It. ” Both headlines are misleading. The 65% and two-thirds figures are referring to the percentage of 4thgraders who scored below proficient on the last reading test of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) , administered in 2022.
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