Student Success

Schools look to university to guide equity overhaul

Roger Williams University will lead Providence Public School District in developing a community-driven scorecard to measure process toward equity in education.

CDC plots ‘long-needed roadmap’ for reopening schools

CDC's new guidance on reopening schools emphasizes equity, prioritizes mask wearing and physical distancing to keep students safe.

Why CDC reopening guidance is just the start of K-12 recovery

Bringing students back to classrooms will take a substantial amount of resources beyond what many districts can marshal on their own, expert says.

How to shift the knowledge narrative around the SAT

As the SAT's influence wanes, colleges and high schools could place more emphasis on students' performance in AP courses and on AP tests.

Filling in all the pieces of SAT equity puzzle

Eliminating the SATs and ACTs would have a marginal impact on making college access more equitable, one expert says.

Why a rural district’s ‘live teaching stations’ will outlast COVID

At the outset of COVID, District Administrator Mark Weddig and his team decided online learning had to resemble live, in-person instruction as closely as possible.

8 things to know about the growing role of COVID learning pods

Learning pods formed in response to COVID school closures have grown during the pandemic and may become a permanent part of education going forward.

Why more kids have computers but still aren’t connected

Because lower-income students have less access to the ed-tech they need for online learning, they also have less live contact with their teachers, a new study has found.

Superintendent: Kids will be OK but need support

The COVID experience and the shift to online learning has shown Superintendent Jill Underly that students in her rural school district are pretty resilient.

How a community helps a rural school cope with COVID

Students have attended class in-person throughout 2020-21 in Wisconsin's Turtle Lake School District, a one-building, pre-K through 12 system with an enrollment of 170.

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