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Coronavirus Online Learning During COVID-19 Linked With Lower Test Scores A new study has found that the more schools kept kids online, the worse their pass rates on state standardized tests were.
Yes, on many levels, we flunked our big online learning test. We weren’t ready. And as a result, countless students have some serious catching up to do.
When teaching and learning and testing went entirely online in March and April of 2020, it became clear that we were starting an unplanned, universal road test of virtual education. Like it or not ...
Educators have been bracing for them, and now they’re here: the first state test results since COVID-19 interrupted K-12 schooling. Districts, states, and schools are poring over the data from ...
The COVID-19 pandemic set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year, with children in high-poverty areas most impacted, according to a district-by-district analysis of test scores.
Students applying to Florida's state universities will now be able to submit exam scores from a conservative and Christian-backed alternative to the SAT and ACT, known as the Classic Learning Test ...
Accountability reporter Bianca Vázquez Toness and data reporter Sharon Lurye, both members of AP’s Education team, used access to the first district-by-district breakdown of pandemic test scores to ...
Florida students seeking a spot in the state’s public universities can now use scores from the little-known Classic Learning Test to apply to those 12 schools, which had required an ACT or SAT ...
Florida's public universities are considering adding another standardized test that can be used in addition to the ACT and SAT.
A Wall Street Journal editorial from Sunday, “Florida Takes the Classic Learning Test,” praises Florida’s state university system for accepting the Classic Learning Test as a standard ...
In May, DeSantis signed into law a new measure that means teenagers also can use CLT scores to qualify for Florida’s popular Bright Futures scholarships. The Classic Learning Test markets itself ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill in May that authorized Florida school districts to administer the Classic Learning Test (CLT), a new and controversial standardized test, alongside the SAT and ACT.