Washington, DC – Learning Without Tears’ acclaimed Early Childhood curriculum, Get Set for School® (GSS), will now include the new Assessments to Guide Instruction, an addition to the complete program ...

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...

Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...

This week’s new question-of-the-week is: What are effective assessment strategies for multilingual learners? Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in the ...

Children who participate in early-education programs are less likely to be placed in special education, a recent Duke University study found. The study, conducted by Duke researchers Clara G. Muschkin ...

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So far, 2025 has been a horror year for early education and care. Much of the recent media and political coverage about childcare has focused on safety. This is understandable, given the numerous, ...

As the sun sets over Philipsburg, the laughter of schoolchildren echoes down the narrow streets. Behind the scenes, teachers, parents, and policymakers are working together — not just to teach, but to ...

Students take advantage of the shade provided by the Teaching and Learning Complex to sit and study. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Thousands of students have put it through its paces since it opened ...