The School District of Lee County is now offering educators significant financial incentives to work in high-risk schools, teach hard-to-staff subjects and teach courses that have the greatest impact on student achievement.
Florida students did better on their state benchmark tests this year. However, the state teachers' union president said these tests are not an accurate indicator of how students are—or aren’t—improving.
Georgia’s new English language arts standards will include an emphasis on handwriting, and particularly cursive. The standards will address handwriting starting in kindergarten and move to cursive in third through fifth grade.
Mississippi students must still pass state assessments in algebra, biology and English language arts as prescribed by federal law. The U.S. History course will also remain a graduation requirement.
Two recent projects to improve academic skills indicate that learning can be improved with sustained effort that uses proven techniques and shuns trendy short-term fixes that school systems often adopt in their desperate efforts to raise test scores.
We explore real-world scenarios where educators encounter challenges interpreting item analysis from standards-based ELA assessments and use these examples to illustrate effective diagnostic approaches.
A K12 subject has truly arrived when it gets its own track at the Future of Education Technology Conference. That honor goes to esports at the big gathering in Orlando.
Teachers in many English classes across America are having students read fewer full-length books. Recently, the Associated Press explored the issue in education.
It reports that students instead are given only short parts of books. Educators said this is because they believe current students have shorter attention spans than those of the past.
