According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), test scores in math and reading for the 2022-2023 school year are worse than in the 2019-2020 school year, when schools closed due to COVID-19.
To overcome the learning losses, the NWEA suggests that an additional 4.5 months of math and 4.1 months of reading instruction would be required for students.
Two plus two no longer equals four, according to members of the Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA), who consider the equation to be a white-supremacist dog whistle instead of a basic mathematical truth.
A Colorado school district in the wealthy western suburbs of Denver gave a blanket statement to the local press dismissing parental concerns about an issue that’s galvanized the state’s contest for governor.Â
The U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear one of two cases on Oct. 31 that could dismantle the 40-year precedent of race-based affirmative action in university admissions, with universities now urging the court to preserve the decision despite some expert opinion to the contrary.