President Joe Biden launched a new, more centralized strategy to combat COVID-19 and reopen schools Thursday, formalizing pledges he made during the campaign and the transition. Biden has set a goal of “getting a majority of K-8 schools…
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Spotlight on Assessment 2021 In this Spotlight, dive into best assessment practices Testing Students This Spring Would Be a Mistake High-stakes tests would tell us very little we can't know in other ways, writes a longtime assessment researcher.
Teachers have always taught students how to vet and analyze information, but helping them distinguish fact from fiction became especially challenging this past fall. As former President Donald Trump's baseless claims that the election was stolen…
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Sterling C. Lloyd,Alex Harwin
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The nation has made notable gains over the past decade on a wide-ranging basket of academic and socioeconomic factors that make up Education Week's Chance-for-Success Index, earning it the first B-minus grade on the index in its current form since…
Back to lesson plans archive January 19, 2021 For a Google doc version of this lesson, click here. You will need to make a copy of the Google doc for a version you can edit. In this lesson, students examine the poetry of Amanda Gorman, who was…