Students are most engaged in lessons that teachers say will help build creativity and allow self-expression while building strong relationships remains the top instructional practice.
While most people say schools should teach about slavery, only a slim majority believe students should learn about its lingering impacts and contemporary racism.
But the future of testing post-COVID may be driven more by politics than by what educators most want to know about their students' progress, says one expert.
Though many students are likely to spend most of this school year learning in-person, short-term shifts back to remote instruction could again chip away at the reliability of year-end assessments.
