Updates

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long given new parents a simple prescription for literacy: read aloud to your children to help them learn language and literacy skills.

In 2023, the Texas Legislature passed its version of an automatic enrollment policy.

A recent report from BEST NC and Watershed Advisors digs into math gaps and what it calls “implementation chain” problems.

A recent mini-study looked at what happened after a subset of schools in Newark, New Jersey adopted Khan Academy as a supplemental math tool.

Did your kids have any homework last night?

When asked on a set of longitudinal surveys from the National Center for Education Statistics, slightly more than one-third of all 9- and 13-year-olds reported they had no homework.

Earlier this month we released a new analysis highlighting the “Graduation Gap.” It turns out that many states have enormous gaps between the percentage of students who score proficient in high school math versus those who are able to earn a diploma.

In the Boston Globe last week, I had an op-ed about what I call the “graduation gap” in Massachusetts. Nearly nine out of ten students earn a high school diploma, while less than half of the state’s 10th graders are proficient in math.

This year’s State of the State addresses had a clear theme: jobs, workforce, and economic competitiveness.

Illinois’ draft Comprehensive Numeracy Plan starts with a strong statement that, “every student, in every classroom, deserves instruction that empowers them to be confident and capable mathematical thinkers.”

Math scores have been in decline for the last decade, and a recent estimate found that boosting scores back to their 2013 levels would raise the average student’s total lifetime earnings by nearly 8%.