Tag: programs

April 5, 2023

States with formal policies around gifted and talented programs tend to identify more English learners and students with disabilities for those programs, according to a new study from NWEA, a not-for-profit research and educational services organization serving K-12 students. The […]

July 16, 2021

The House Appropriations Committee approved a bill Thursday that includes nearly $31 billion in total higher education funding for fiscal year 2022. The bill, which primarily includes Democratic priorities and aligns closely with President Biden’s budget proposal, was approved by […]

July 6, 2021

The New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Classroom Mathematics and Ready Reading programs to its High-Quality Professional Learning (HQPL) Marketplace List for 2021. The list acts as a guide for teachers, schools, and districts across […]

March 11, 2019

Community colleges and four-year university systems in several states have consolidated or merged in some way in recent years. Georgia State University’s merger with the Perimeter College helped raise the graduation rate of first-time, full-time students in the college’s two-year […]

February 27, 2019

NCTQ may be best known for its Teacher Prep Review, an ongoing project to measure thousands of traditional and alternative teacher preparation programs against a set of standards. In recent years, some researchers have cast doubts on the organization’s findings […]

January 11, 2019

Data scientist Mark Madsen has been programming and crunching data long before buzzwords like artificial intelligence and machine learning were common. So when the field really started expanding around 2010, Madsen, who works near Portland, Ore., began receiving requests from […]

January 2, 2019

Most schools have a desire to innovate, especially when old ideas are no longer working or when new technologies require the application of new ideas. While many schools have innovative leaders, not all schools have the funding or support of […]

September 28, 2018

Credit recovery programs are designed to help address the high school dropout rate. The issue is considered a societal one because high school dropouts earn an average of $9,200 less per year than high school graduates and are more likely […]

September 21, 2018

This study adds to the growing body of research related to the potential benefits of offering free meals to all students at a school. The Community Eligibility Provision was initiated to help eliminate the shame associated with receiving free meals […]

December 21, 2015

This week, Education Dive took a look at negative response to the Every Student Succeeds Act’s “Pay for Success” initiative. Also in K-12, the U.S. Department of Education unveiled its National Education Technology Plan, highlighting best practices for the use […]