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Auditing Academic Skills: Recent Research and Data In a recent research brief from July 2023, NWEA estimates that the average student needs 4.1 additional months of reading instruction and 4.5 additional months of math instruction in order to catch up to pre-pandemic levels. This month, the Aspen Economic Strategy Group hosted ... Read More

By Anna Adam and Helen Mowers Original Source: Edutopia Originally posted December 30, 2014 While it feels like we just wrote 7 Apps for Teaching Children Coding Skills, it's been a year, and as we know, that’s a couple of lifetimes in the technology world! Over the past year, we've discovered even ... Read More

Grappling With College Admissions: Test-Optional Policies And Holistic Reviews We're observing that many families are feeling overwhelmed and/or confused by the state of college admissions (e.g. test-optional policies, holistic reviews) and what they should be doing. We’re here to help you make sense of it. If we had to boil ... Read More

Following several years of significant operational disruptions, schools are focused on stabilizing routines and expectations and reconciling underdeveloped skills given the overwhelming data on pandemic learning loss experienced to some degree for the majority of learners in both private and public schools. In a recent research brief from July 2023, ... Read More

The thing about math is that when it makes sense it’s easy. Most tutoring of course is aimed at making the math make sense in the first place. However, for kids who find the math in school to be too simple and too straightforward, the lack of challenge and novelty ... Read More

Do you remember fourth grade? You were not yet confronting middle school angst but no longer a little kid in your elementary school. You likely were not worried about your overflowing inbox, catching up on laundry, or figuring out dinner plans back then. What were you worried about? Think back ... Read More