Opinion: Austin Beutner and Shari Tarver Behring: Lessons from the pandemic about how to improve education
Recent NAEP reports on student scores from tests taken in early 2022 have sparked a chorus of concerns about the progress of children in public schools. While the focus on student achievement is warranted, a look at how educators are responding can show us how to start moving forward.
But before we put too much stock in the NAEP reports, let’s recognize that a relatively small number of students in any school district take the tests and each student only answers a portion of the questions. A better way to think about the results is more akin to that of a poll or survey—directionally interesting, but one should be careful about attributing too much significance to the specific numbers.
Visit a first-grade classroom in a more affluent community or private school and you’ll usually find two teachers. One to work with the children who are at grade level, the other to provide individualized or small group instruction.
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