Great article by Education Week this week. Recently, the White House announced the national high school graduate rate has reached 83.2 percent. President Obama called it the “highest on record.” However, the Ed Week article brings up some important questions. For example: “The question is what those gains mean. How do you make sense of…
Read MoreU.S. 8th graders in 35 states outperformed the international average in math. The findings come from a National Center for Education Statistics study that uses the scores of 8th graders on the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress to predict their performance on the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). The study…
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