In a third floor classroom at Russell Conwell Middle School in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, brightly colored math posters hang from the walls and a lengthy description of equivalent ratios covers the white board. This is what Principal Erica Green calls
Perrillo and Newman: The top-down pressure to measure up on test scores saps the time and energy needed to promote reading for pleasure. A new national study shows that Americans’ rates of reading for pleasure have declined radically over the first quarter
Statistical analysis of the ’23-24 school year’s data found that students in ATR schools outperformed their peers in non-ATR schools in math & science North Carolina’s Advanced Teaching Roles program, which allows highly effective teachers to receive salary supplements for teaching
Nitkin: Only 29% of school leaders say accountability data helps them improve student outcomes, and half say testing makes it harder to innovate. State accountability systems were designed with good intentions: to ensure rigor and drive continuous student improvement. In
Kicking off across three districts including Baltimore, a new grant program utilizes college students to boost middle schoolers’ scores, confidence. A model for high dosage math tutoring employing nearly 1,000 college and graduate students has taken root across Maryland, converting some into
The private tutoring market has grown since the COVID-19 pandemic. The private and in-schooling tutoring market in the United States has grown substantially since the COVID-19 pandemic. It helps that the U.S. Education Department has been offering US$220 million of funding since 2022 to help schools build
