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Summer 2021 Re-Imagined: A Grand Opening to a Successful Year
If you follow my blogs, you’ll note that I have been writing recently about the ineffectiveness of summer school (here, here, and here). Along with colleagues, I wrote a review of research on summer...
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The American Rescue Plan Can Rescue Education, If We Use It to Fund What Works
The American Rescue Plan was passed in the U.S. Congress this week. This $1.9 trillion bill provides funding for a lot of things I care about as a citizen, but as an educator, I’d like to focus on the...
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Another Way to Understand Effect Sizes
Whenever I talk to educators and mention effect sizes, someone inevitably complains. “We don’t understand effect sizes,” they say. I always explain that you don’t have to understand exactly what...
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Getting Proven Tutoring Programs Into Widespread Practice
Over the past 20 years, there has been a major increase in the number of educational programs that have been developed, evaluated in rigorous (usually randomized) experiments, found to make a...
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Prioritize Tutoring for Low-Achieving Readers
In speaking and writing about tutoring, I am often asked about where limited tutoring resources should be concentrated. My answer is this: “Make certain that every single child in America who needs...
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Message From NorthBay: All Students Can Learn to Read
Last July, I wrote a blog about a Year 6 (fifth grade) student in England, “Richard,” who just happened to transfer to one of our Success for All schools in spring, 2020. The school staff tested him....
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Lessons for Educational Research from the COVID-19 Vaccines
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 130 biotech companies have launched major efforts to develop and test vaccines. Only four have been approved so far (Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson...
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Dear Reader, Every Thursday for the past nine years, except for major holidays, I have produced my blog on educational research and practice. However, this week, I am running my blog on Monday. Why?...
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Launching ProvenTutoring
Today, my colleagues and I are launching www.ProvenTutoring.org. The purpose of this website is to help make certain that the opportunities made available by the American Rescue Plan and other funding...
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What Bob Slavin Would Want Us To Remember
“There is much technique to master in creating educational programs, evaluating them, and fairly summarizing their effects. There is even more technique in implementing proven programs in schools and...
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