Miah Daughtery, Ed.D., is the literacy director of content advocacy and design at NWEA, where she spends her days figuring out how to get kids more excited about reading and writing.

Leaders paint the debate as a civil rights issue, insisting that the government needs a good understanding of how much the pandemic set back students and which need the most help.

Between virtual classes, a little bit of in-person learning, and a whole lot of anxiety, kids did not exactly get a full school year in 2020.

With the new school year getting underway, researchers are adamant that data gathered during the 2020-21 academic year lends new urgency to warnings they first sounded in the early days of the...

Beyond relief funding, here are three other key school updates this week from states, district officials and education advocates:

New research on national test scores suggests that students’ learning greatly slowed down last year because of the pandemic. Minority and poorer students suffered the most.

Although several pundits tried to push the idea that the COVID-19 pandemic was the “great equalizer” early on in the pandemic, it’s become quite clear that these assertions were...

All point to bigger declines in math and widening achievement gaps

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In Texas, Austin's NYOS — Not Your Ordinary School — gives 'bookend students,' who are far ahead & way behind, freedom to work at their own pace.

When school leaders take great care in raising the idea of changing grading systems, they increase the odds of getting buy-in from parents and students.

A new report noted that students on the whole did make gains during the 2020–2021 school year. However, those gains were lower than seen in previous years.

A new report out reveals that virtually all children fell behind in reading and math learning over the course of the pandemic, with some students disproportionately affected.

More evidence shows that historically underserved students were disproportionately impacted

COVID-19 has had an outsized impact on health and economic opportunity in historically underserved communities.

Students across the country learned at a more sluggish pace than usual during the very atypical 2020-21 school year.

A pandemic that reshaped American society and disrupted more than a year of schooling also slowed progress in math and reading for millions of U.S. students, according to new national data...

There would need to be "unprecedented" levels of growth to catch up.

Three separate assessment analyses show younger students, students of color and low-income students had lower rates of academic gains.

How much did the pandemic affect students? The latest research is out, and the answer is clear: dramatically.