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Amazing work, Louisiana students! Let's keep this momentum going. A few highlights from the Nation's Report Card: - Louisiana 4th graders led the nation in reading growth for the second consecutive cycle of The Nation’s Report Card. (2022 and 2024) - Louisiana 4th graders were top five in the nation for math growth. - Louisiana is one of only two states where 4th graders exceeded 2019 scores in reading and math. - Louisiana is one of 14 states to post gains in 8th grade math. - Louisiana students with disabilities and economically disadvantaged students outperformed the national average in both achievement and growth.

Louisiana's revised accountability system has been called the strongest in the country. It raises the bar for academic success, enhances the value of career education, and makes it easier for the public to understand how schools are performing. https://ow.ly/qpXP50UvCwI

About one-quarter of all colleges in the United States are in low-populated, isolated settings – and these educate over 670,000 students. Two-hundred and sixty of these schools are two-year institutions. For this conversation, Jay Halfond talks with Eastern Shore Community College president Jim Shaeffer as he speaks to his experience as a leader in the higher education industry. Read More: http://spr.ly/6044a5nKC

Wesleyan President Michael Roth observed: "The richness of the curriculum and high quality of instruction may receive a nod, but they are rarely celebrated. Promoting everything except what happens between faculty and students may be good for short-term appeal, but the result is to make the entire enterprise of higher education more fragile.” Here is a simple story, well-told, celebrating the encounter between faculty, students, and learning. Well done, Holy Cross College. https://lnkd.in/enMpz_yp

Louisiana ranked fourth in the nation for its support of education freedom. We saw the most significant jump in the country on the Education Freedom Report Card that evaluates states on education choice, teacher freedom, academic transparency, and the return on investment for education spending. https://ow.ly/oOHM50Utzet

It is not a coincidence: 📈 Louisana 4th graders are leading the nation in reading growth. ✏️ Louisana is the only state that has implemented explicit and systematic writing instruction with The Writing Revolution in grades 3-5. I’m not crediting evidence-based writing instruction with all of Louisana’s success. They have done the work to train teachers in the Science of Reading (SoR) and provide high quality instructional materials. But that’s true of many states and districts outside of Louisiana. There is no shortage of educators doing the work to improve student outcomes in literacy. 40 states and DC have legislated SoR, and yet the NAEP results tell us that these kind of results aren’t happening everywhere. We have to ask why Louisiana is out in front. The answer is revolutionizing writing instruction alongside the changes to reading instruction. It’s not enough to do only one.

Today I had the pleasure of contributing to the 7th edition of the Government Schools Assessment Week, in panel 01 – Open Education and Agenda 2030: the real, the potential and the future. Brayam Rodrigues

The Department of Education has published a compendium of presentations from the inaugural ResearchED Belfast conference, the grass-roots, teacher-led organisation which started in 2013 and aims to bridge the gap between research and practice in education. The conference was organised by Carrickfergus Grammar School and was attended by researchers, teachers, and policy makers, who came together for a day of information-sharing and myth-busting. Education Minister Paul Givan praised the practical research, commenting: “It is clear that our teachers want access to practical educational research that is relevant to their teaching practice." “Access to relevant research is an important element of teacher professional learning. For an education system to be excellent, it must prioritise investment in supporting teachers to continuously improve the quality of classroom practice. We can only do this by investing increased resources over the next number of years to support an effective and coherent approach to professional development." https://lnkd.in/eS23hiVd

Attention State Leaders! Check out this policy brief from National Association of State Leaders in Early Education, The Science of Reading: What Does it Mean for State Leaders in Early Education? https://rpb.li/id0U

Academic Freedom and Civil Discourse in Higher Education: A National Study of Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions - Stephen's Lighthouse https://lnkd.in/ezJBzcuf