The coronavirus pandemic supercharged efforts to create new schools and school models. Learning pods, microschools, homeschool co-ops, hybrid homeschools, forest schools, and other efforts that defy ...

Generative AI changes what homework can prove. Learn which skills remain measurable, what breaks, and how instructors and students can adapt responsibly.

There is a popular quote attributed to management expert Peter Drucker: “What gets measured gets improved.” In education, the mantra is equally true. However, since I began working in edtech five ...

In an attempt to head off a government-ordered system to measure student learning, the two higher-education associations representing the nation’s public colleges are calling on their members to ...

We know the assessments used in face-to-face classrooms are not always practical or impactful in remote learning. Thus, the question: How do we assess what our students have learned in distance and ...

Recent discussions on pre-K quality center around questions of what we should prioritize in early childhood classrooms — and how we should measure success. A new guide provides a chance “to explore ...

Supporters of the “growth model” approach—measuring individual student growth over time—argue that it is a positive alternative to the single end-of-the-year tests often used to satisfy the ...

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All educational fixes face the same problem—how do you measure success? The simplest method is to attempt to measure the quantity of learning, saying that students achieve more learning or less ...

In a word-association game on “education,” “the United States Army” would probably not be the first response given. But for those who work closely with the Army and understand the depth of the Army’s ...