For all its controversy, the SAT better correlates more strongly with high school students’ declining reading abilities than does GPA.
Districts across the U.S. are looking for ed-tech. In San Francisco, it’s a platform to prepare students for college and careers. In Maryland, it’s adaptive software for elementary literacy.
Inside California’s English/Language Arts Adoption: District Buying Patterns
Despite Pent-Up Demand, Schools Are Taking Their Time Picking New ELA Products
A 35-district study examined how schools in California are deciding to buy English/language arts products, and the implications for companies working in other states.
The global learning company will lose 3 to 4 percent market share as a result of the decision to enhance its existing reading program for California, rather than redo it.
Ed-Tech Needs for English Learners Vary by Region, District Size
Winning the West May Require Different Tactics Than Those Breaking Through Back East
School districts’ ELL ed-tech needs are as diverse as English learners themselves, suggest the results of an exclusive survey of 200 district leaders.
Vermont wants a company to build it a website for open educational resources, for free. A New Jersey district is looking for instructional materials and PD services to help educators whose students struggle with phonetics.
Five non-profits and 24 districts and schools received grants to advance literacy for pre-K-12th grade students in high-needs schools.
Catapult Learning has secured a potential $17.5 million contract with the DOD schools; the Alexandria, Va., system has issued an request for information on summative assessments.
Math teachers are more likely to seek out resources with evidence of alignment to the common core than are language arts teachers, a RAND report finds.
What You Need to Know About Adaptive Testing of ELLs: A Researcher’s View
Barbara Foorman Talks About How New Assessments Can Measure the Skills of Students of Many Backgrounds and Skill Levels
Researcher Barbara Foorman talks about her study on the use of computer-adaptive tests of literacy for ELLs in early grades in the Miami-Dade schools in Florida.