Beyond Basics responded to Jill Barshay's work at The Hechinger Report as she highlighted the relationship between high-dosage tutoring, attendance and success. Cofounder and CEO Pamela Good's Letter to the Editor is shared in full below.
American students are slowly starting to regain academic ground lost during the pandemic, according to nationwide and state testing data compiled by Chalkbeat.
A recent editorial asks how Michigan can improve its education performance, and says a good start is to “eliminate the elected state Board of Education" ("To fix schools, first scrap state ed board," June 10, 2022).
When students get to middle and high school without strong reading skills, the results can be devastating.
If you’re reading this letter, you’re engaged in an activity that an average of only 3 out of 10 Indianapolis students in grades 3-8 can read and comprehend proficiently.
Kathryn Cottrell was taught a specific and popular method of teaching students how to read when she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary studies with a focus on literacy in 2020.
Parents of nearly 5,700 Michigan students are getting some unwelcome news: Their third graders could be held back from moving on to the fourth grade because of low reading scores.
Kaylee, an eighth-grader in a light blue hoodie, read a list of words, one by one, to teacher Jessica Thurby.
A new report on pandemic learning loss found that high-poverty schools both spent more weeks in remote instruction during 2020-21 and suffered large losses in achievement when they did so.
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