High-stakes testing does not cause teachers to leave education or switch schools or districts. In fact, it may help retain some new teachers, a study has found.

Transcript Guest Roland H. Good, III, Ph.D., is president, director of Research Analysis, and associate director of Research and Development for Acadience® Learning, and co-author of Acadience® Reading (also published under the name DIBELS® Next), as well as earlier versions of the DIBELS® assessment. He earned his doctorate from Pennsylvania State University in School Psychology and served two years as a school psychologist. […]

Between 20 and 40 percent of K-5 students are falling behind and in need of additional instruction in reading. Unfortunately, most teachers have limited time and often lack the resources and support needed to help each student reach grade-level literacy. Voyager Passport provides a proven approach to accelerating student achievement by targeting the priority skills […]

President Donald Trump and Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos would drop federal funding for charter schools, increase CTE spending and create a single K-12 block grant.