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![Trouble with teachers: Why there's no post-Covid rebound](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cf8a68_393c292e700d49c4b79759ee2b81c629~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/cf8a68_393c292e700d49c4b79759ee2b81c629~mv2.webp)
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 26, 20232 min read
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...
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![Doing more of what wasn't working won't help kids catch up](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cf8a68_1d192dfe9c294dedbef9a98d2343d74d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_424,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/cf8a68_1d192dfe9c294dedbef9a98d2343d74d~mv2.webp)
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 13, 20231 min read
Doing more of what wasn't working won't help kids catch up
"If we really want to narrow gaps and make up for pandemic-related learning loss, we need to change what and how we teach -- especially...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 13, 20231 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 11, 20232 min read
NX in NYC: No show, no work, no test, no problem
When New York City schools closed in March 2020, students struggled to log on to remote classes and complete assignments. So education...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 3, 20232 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 24, 20232 min read
Summer school is open, but will students who need it most show up?
This will be the last year of Covid-funded summer school before the pandemic relief money runs out, writes Jo Napolitano on The 74. Some...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 23, 20232 min read
How will kids catch up? Richmond struggles to add learning time
It will take time to make up for pandemic learning loss, Richmond Superintendent Jason Kamras believes. But his proposal to add...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 22, 20231 min read
A 'lost generation' of learning: Scores fall, gaps widen for 13-year-olds
America's 13-year-olds are moving backwards educationally, according to a new report on long term trends by the National Assessment of...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 14, 20231 min read
Less schooling, less learning
“The Longer Students Were Out of School, the Less They Learned,” concludes Harry Anthony Patrinos, an education economist for the World...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 14, 20232 min read
Still disrupted: Students are missing a lot of school
Schools haven't returned to normal reports Alia Wong for USA Today. An alarming number of students are "missing vast stretches of their...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 8, 20231 min read
Should I go to college? Class of '23 worries about costs, feels less prepared
The Class of '23 missed the last part of ninth grade, and many missed chunks of 10th and 11th grade as well. Forty-two percent say...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 18, 20232 min read
My students are 'broken kids I cannot fix'
Teachers on Reddit are sharing horror stories of their students' emotional, social and academic melt downs, screen addictions and apathy....
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 25, 20232 min read
'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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 17, 20231 min read
When fourth graders can't read
Third-, fourth- and fifth-grade teachers have many more students who read poorly because they missed out on decoding instruction when...
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 3, 20232 min read
Grades and grad rates rise, and that's not good news
Grades are up! Graduation rates are rising! But that's not good news. Test scores are down, across the country, writes Hechinger's Jill...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 20, 20232 min read
Many students need tutoring, but few are getting it
Intensive tutoring is the best way to help students who suffered learning setbacks during the pandemic, but school districts are...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 13, 20231 min read
Dropout rate is up: Disrupted teens gave up on school
The high school dropout rate is up, reports Julian Shen-Berro on Chalkbeat. Students who fell behind when classes went virtual feel...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 13, 20232 min read
More young people are skipping college: Is that a crisis?
A good student at a good high school, Grayson Hart "believed college was the only route to a good job, stability and a happy life," until...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 7, 20231 min read
Education fads will make learning decline worse
"As bad as the pandemic was for student learning," some education fads will make it worse, writes Greg Richmond, superintendent of...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 6, 20232 min read
Happy talk isn't helpful: Tell parents the truth about their kids' learning
Keri Rodrigues, co-founder and president of the National Parents Union, complained on Twitter about the special-education team "who...
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