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Socioeconomic factors partially at play in racial achievement gaps

Social and economic characteristics can partially explain reading, math and science achievement gaps among racial and ethnic groups of elementary school students, according to a study released Wednesday by nonprofit think tank Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Between 34% and 64% of the achievement gap between Black and White students can be explained by socioeconomic factors […]

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Nearly 60% of grades don’t match student test scores

Articles, News / Kara Arundel

Grading practices in U.S. schools are antiquated and “out of step” with other contemporary K-12 efforts, according to a study published last month by the Equitable Grading Project, a nonprofit research organization that promotes equitable grading practices.

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Swish: Teaching fractions on the basketball court

Articles, News / Kara Arundel

Students in two southern California school districts are jumping to understand rational numbers on the basketball court, and the engaging series of games — known as Fraction Ball — are already showing significant results. Fraction Ball uses movement-based activities to help students working at 3rd, 4th and 5th grade math levels make meaningful connections between math lessons

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Student-designed 7th grade climate curriculum aims to bring joy, rigor

Articles, News / Kara Arundel

The developers of a new climate-centered, open source curriculum focused on land subsidence in California’s Central Valley promise the lessons for 7th graders will be joyful, engaging and rigorous. That’s because the developers, ages 12-23, are students themselves and have keen insight into what middle schoolers want to learn and how they connect with information.

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Fly-fishing class catches student engagement and teacher’s passion

Articles / Kara Arundel

Nokomis Regional High School in central Maine incorporates English standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening in a fly-fishing course launched last spring.

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Teachers increasingly turning to digital, self-created materials for lessons

Articles / Kara Arundel

Only 23% of teachers said they exclusively use printed textbooks in their classrooms, according to a survey by Bay View Analytics.

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Montessori method has ‘strong and clear’ impact on student performance

Articles / Kara Arundel

Montessori, named for Dr. Maria Montessori, an Italian physician who developed the approach in the early 1900s, takes a child-centered approach to teaching and is specially designed for multisensory learning and inquiry in multi-age classrooms, according to the American Montessori Society. The studies in this meta-analytic review were published between 1967 and 2020 and took place in

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Author name: Kara Arundel

Socioeconomic factors partially at play in racial achievement gaps

Nearly 60% of grades don’t match student test scores

Swish: Teaching fractions on the basketball court

Student-designed 7th grade climate curriculum aims to bring joy, rigor

Fly-fishing class catches student engagement and teacher’s passion

Teachers increasingly turning to digital, self-created materials for lessons

Montessori method has ‘strong and clear’ impact on student performance

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