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To Combat the ‘COVID Slide,’ Tutoring Program Pairs Elementary Schoolers with College Students

Edsurge

According to an EdSurge/Social Context Labs analysis of 196 school district policies published during spring 2020, nearly two-thirds offered printed instructional materials to families to use for schoolwork, a figure that was higher among high-poverty districts than low-poverty districts.

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Pandemic Spurs Changes in the Edtech Schools Use, From the Classroom to the Admin Office

Edsurge

Market data and services firm MDR has updated a wide-ranging survey it last fielded in 2018 about teachers and tech, and the resulting report, “How 2020 Shifted Perceptions of Technology in the Classroom,” illustrates how COVID-19’s disruptions have upended some edtech trends and accelerated others. Popular educational apps. Accelerated?

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Lexia Nationwide Report Finds 80% of Students Using Lexia Core5 Reading Did Not Experience Literacy Learning Loss During Remote and Hybrid Learning in the 2020-21 Academic Year

eSchool News

23, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, today released new research titled “Using Lexia Core5 Reading to Address Learning Loss and Accelerate Learning: Insights from a 2020-21 Nationwide Study.” BOSTON ( Sept. Over 40% of students who used Core5 exceeded their MAP Growth targets.

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OPINION: Struggling readers need standards and structure based on the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year. After the Act’s passage, Mississippi aligned with the science of reading.

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How Districts Can Develop a Comprehensive Plan for Remote Learning Come Fall

Edsurge

Staggering student schedules helps with social distancing, but class sizes in Clark County were as high as 40 in some elementary schools before the coronavirus emerged. Our district, which started the 2019-2020 school year with 750 openings, has hundreds of vacancies each year.

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OPINION: It’s time. Let’s use different ways of teaching children to read

The Hechinger Report

Only 53 percent of teacher education programs “provide sufficient coverage of early reading components,” the National Council on Teacher Quality found in their 2020 review of elementary teacher training programs. Related: Retraining an entire states’ elementary teachers in the science of reading.

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Texas Ramps Up Distance Learning with ST Math

MIND Research Institute

As 2020 came to a close, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced that ST Math is freely available to all Texans through TEA's Texas Home Learning 3.0 (THL Since free access was announced in December 2020, over one million students from 1,500 schools across 240 districts have signed up for ST Math.