Last fall, The Harvard Crimson ran a story called “Harvard Launches New Intro Math Course to Address Pandemic Learning Loss.” It quotes Harvard’s Director of Introductory Math Brendan Kelly, who said that the learning loss students sustained during Covid prompted the university to develop the remedial math course. The course,
The last several weeks have seen a flurry of actions from the Trump administration on education, including the cancellation of contracts and grants, the reduction in force at the Department of Education, and most recently, the executive order to eliminate the department. While many Trump supporters may be cheering his
Jill Barshay of The Hechinger Report cited the Winston Group’s David Winston’s recent column for Roll Call on the importance of the National Assessment of Education Progress: Other supporters of the test are making their case in the media. William Bennett, education secretary under former President Ronald Reagan, penned an open
Last month, the Collaborative for Student Success released its latest “Honesty Gap” analysis, looking at the differences between the shares proficient as measured by state standardized tests and the shares proficient on NAEP. What they found is that in many states, the gaps persist. “If we believe that NAEP is
In today’s Roll Call, The Winston Group’s David Winston writes about NAEP’s critical function in ensuring our education system is on track — and letting us know when it is not. There are reasonable arguments to be made about the size of the federal government and whether certain crucial programs
Less than two weeks after the 2024 NAEP scores were released — showing continued declines in reading and stagnation in math — the latest Education Recovery Scorecard was released, bearing similar news. The report, produced by the Center for Education Policy at Harvard University and The Educational Opportunity Project at