Joanne Jacobs
200-day school year boosts reading scores -- and attendance
Adding 20 days to the school year improved reading scores at two Richmond elementary schools.
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Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 1
- 2 min
Students are catching up in math, reading -- but gaps are wider
Reading and math scores are on their way up, reports the Education Recovery Scorecard. On average, students in grades three through eight...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 8, 2023
- 1 min
'Literacy liberators' are as effective as teachers in tutoring early readers
An Oakland parent group hired and trained tutors from the community to work with early readers, reports Linda Jacobson on The 74....
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 10, 2023
- 1 min
'There's got to be a pony in there'
Public schools face a long, tough road to recover from school closures and pandemic chaos, writes Fordham's Dale Chu. Post-pandemic...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 11, 2023
- 1 min
Chatbot 'Ed' will tell LA parents how their kids are doing in school
An interactive, multilingual chatbot named "Ed" will tell parents about their child's grades, test results and attendance" and serve as a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 4, 2023
- 1 min
Absent teachers: Why learning is still disrupted
A rise in teacher absenteeism is disrupting learning, concludes TNTP, Talent Framework: Designing the Workforce of Tomorrow to Support...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 26, 2023
- 2 min
Trouble with teachers: Why there's no post-Covid rebound
A crisis in classroom teaching quality is forcing school systems to "abandon once-ambitious student recovery plans," concludes a report...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 13, 2023
- 1 min
Education's 'long Covid' -- students aren't catching up
Don't call it "learning loss," they said. It's just "unfinished learning." Kids will catch up quickly. They'll be fine. First through...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 3, 2023
- 1 min
Good news in Tennessee
Tennessee's focus on tutoring and summer school is paying off, report Marta W. Aldrich and Kae Petrin on Chalkbeat. Scores are up for the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 3, 2023
- 2 min
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
There are three terrifying things about the long-term federal test data on 13-year-olds' achievement, writes Vladimir Kogan, an Ohio...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 25, 2023
- 2 min
'Covid kids' won't catch up by the end of 12th grade, unless . . .
It's a "terrible truth," writes Margaret Raymond on The 74. "Most of the programs school districts have implemented to address COVID...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 19, 2022
- 2 min
Gone girls and boys
District-run public schools lost nine percent of enrollment between spring 2021 and spring 2022, concludes School Disrupted by Tyton...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 9, 2022
- 2 min
Virtual tutoring won't work if students don't use it
On-demand virtual tutoring has the potential to help students catch up in school, concludes a recent study of California students in...
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