Ed News for K12 Researchers: State of Students 2025, Testing in Texas & the Carolinas, Absenteeism is here today, ELA & Math Prof post-pandemic, Lick-urt scales, Americans stockpiling facts?: https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
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Ed News for K12 Researchers: State of Students 2025, Testing in Texas & the Carolinas, Absenteeism is here today, ELA & Math Prof post-pandemic, Lick-urt scales, Americans stockpiling facts?: https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
This week’s stories to keep you up to date on recent articles and to provide research related resources that you can share with colleagues.
State of the American Student 2025 https://crpe.org/the-state-of-the-american-student-2025/
Scores are down, especially for those already down https://www.the74million.org/article/student-achievement-is-down-overall-but-kids-at-the-bottom-are-sinking-faster/
Chicago Consortium authors on absenteeism https://www.the74million.org/article/for-some-kids-getting-to-school-is-really-hard-they-still-need-to-go-every-day/
How is attendance going? https://edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1265
Chronic absenteeism 2017-2024 https://www.returntolearntracker.net/
Schools facing less fed money https://hechingerreport.org/schools-confront-a-new-reality-they-cant-count-on-federal-money/?utm_source=The+Hechinger+Report&utm_campaign=4c2ad55558-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_09_17_07_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4c2ad55558-322580005
Will your congressional district lose the most K12 $ under fed budget proposals?
ELA & Math proficiency changes postpandemic https://statetestscoreresults.substack.com/p/ela-and-math-proficiency-changes-0cc?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1796653&post_id=173858618&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3dr75&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Individual mothers are not having fewer babies, it is fewer women are becoming mothers
Why higher birth rates matter https://www.briefingbook.info/p/the-economic-case-for-higher-birth?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1002034&post_id=173628481&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3dr75&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Brain development for reading starts to diverge at 18 months, not 6 years
More and more are starting school behind https://theconversation.com/despite-improvements-to-early-education-more-children-are-starting-school-developmentally-behind-whats-going-on-264770
State test results from the Carolinas -- NC: https://statetestscoreresults.substack.com/p/north-carolina-2025-assessment-results?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1796653&post_id=173943945&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3dr75&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Comments on Texas swapping STAR for three tests during the year
Education Opportunity for all -- and how we get there even today https://schoolfinance101.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/eeo.for_.all_.baker_5-10-25_wp-1.pdf
Para turnover https://caldercenter.org/publications/turnover-patterns-paraeducator-workforce-washington-state
CTE in Washington State https://erdc.wa.gov/publications-and-reports/career-and-technical-education-washington-state-longitudinal-study-student-access-participation-and
Many CTE certificates may not be worth the paper they are written on https://www.the74million.org/article/credential-chaos-career-credentials-boom-in-high-school-but-not-all-have-value/
The Presidential Fitness Test returns (why didn't they rename it the Trump Fitness Test?)
Likert is Pronounced "LICK-urt" not "LIE-kurt" and the Data are Ordinal not nterval
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28009595/
Americans stockpiling facts https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
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