Education-Consumers
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Like Consumer Reports but for parents, policymakers, and other users of education. Consumer-friendly data, research, and policy analysis.
Washington DC Metro Area
Joined August 2013
Learning loss persists: districts that stayed fully remote in 2020-21 are still 1–2 pts behind in reading and math.
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"We have persuaded ourselves that to pursue excellence is to perpetuate inequity, that holding students to high standards is unfair...The @UCSD report exposes the folly of that thinking. 'Equity' without preparation is cruelty disguised as compassion."
The @UCSD professors who wrote the bombshell report on the collapse of their students' college-readiness deserve credit for saying aloud what the K-12 education establishment will not: we are setting students up to fail. My latest for @AEIdeas @AEI
https://t.co/eeBpKitXRN
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School-based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) intervention found ***zero*** impact on children’s mental health. https://t.co/n74bX6spbf
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Internalizing mental health difficulties impair quality of life, and their prevalence increases significantly during the transition from childhood to adolescence. This parallel cluster randomized...
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Nothing to see here.... Everything is fine... The status quo is doing a bang up job... Carry on... Trust the experts... But do you have an Ed degree?....
NEW: UC San Diego has released a new report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen. The number of entering students needing remedial math has exploded from 1/100 to 1/8. They’ve had to create a second remedial class covering elementary and
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"student outcomes are an afterthought" No kidding.
District closes schools, predictable pattern: ✅per pupil spending up 42%, proficiencies down ✅massive expansion of non-academic related student support services: “Many roles have shifted from classroom instruction to layers of support positions such as coaches,
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@EduConsumersFdn Facts. You can make adjustments and leverage your expertise, but you're starting with something solid
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NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching #5 Explicit teaching is demotivating Link 👇
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Yes! We've been saying this for decades! It's why achieving reading proficiency by 3rd grade is so critical for a child.
How do early achievement gaps impact students' academic mobility? New CALDER paper uses WA data to track student test and non-test outcomes from 3rd grade to high school, finding that students who begin behind tend to stay behind. Read here👉 https://t.co/bKhgMNrnFN
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"higher performance on 3rd or 8th grade assessments strongly predicts better high school outcomes, including test scores, GPAs, college-level course-taking in math and ELA, graduation rates, and lower rates of absenteeism and disciplinary incidents"
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Exactly why we have been publishing user-friendly third grade reading charts for every school in every state for well over a decade. How successful is your school? https://t.co/Rns7MdLG8Z
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For the last nine years, the Education Consumers Foundation has worked to inform parents and others in Tennessee of the performance of their local schools.
By third grade, the die is cast. A new @caldercenter paper shows the battle for student success is won—or lost—in the early years.
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For the education establishment, it's all about perceptions. Why do you think districts spend thousands every year on PR consultants?
That's depressing. @MrDanielBuck
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“I finally felt complete.” When former Detroit Lions @Deon_Butler47 learned to read as an adult, everything changed. He broke a family curse — his grandmother, mother, and father had never read to him — but he was determined to read to his daughter. ❤️ Listen to the moment it
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I have a hunch this is why so many teachers quit in the first three years. It’s baptism by fire.
Education schools train teachers to meet imaginary students in imaginary classrooms where their imaginary methods work like a charm. Then a teacher gets to the real classroom with real students, and the "best practices" fail them in ways that continue to shock for years. It
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This is how states keep parents in the dark about academic achievement. But we have charts comparing state assessment results to NAEP and they are quite informative. It helps give a clearer picture of how states are doing. https://t.co/tpMFgBdkDa
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No maybe about it.
A woeful number of students enter high school without a basic knowledge of even rudimentary grammar concepts like noun, verb, and adjective. Maybe the move away from explicit grammar instruction was a mistake?
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You would think graduates of colleges of education would be keenly aware of this after spending 4 years studying teaching and learning. But alas, most are not.
It’s hard to overstate how much changes once you start viewing teaching and learning through an evidence-based lens. You begin to see just how much time, money, and energy go into things with little evidence they actually help students learn.
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Programs like Direct Instruction and Success for All have shown effectiveness in preventing reading failure in kindergarten, yet they have been dismissed as "drill and kill." This aversion to skill-focused teaching is preventing lasting literacy improvements, yet the data
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🔁 Increasing opportunities to respond is one the most transformative tools in teaching. More student responses = ✅ higher engagement ✅ more time on task ✅ more learning We discuss why it's important in the clip. Lots of strategies discussed in the full episode. Link below.
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@NedStanley @The74 @EduConsumersFdn has been tracking this data for years, you can see historical comparisons there, highlight schools or districts. https://t.co/BbK8YNTY5Y
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Ten+ years of public school teaching experience in different schools and under different admin, and I can tell you this is 100% accurate. It also shouldn't be this way, and the public-with grass roots activism-could help turn school boards around. This is how parents could
Administrators are the lynchpin in all of this: Policymakers are too high up. School boards too naive. Teachers too varying. A great principal will make or break a school. On discipline, whether her or she backs up teachers or not makes all the difference.
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