Rachel Langan
Solutions for Education's Long Covid: A 5 Point Agenda for Supersizing Recovery Efforts
See full article here. In the wake of the pandemic, a K–12 crisis remains and requires a robust response. The nation’s Covid-19 health...
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Rachel Langan
- Sep 22
‘Time is Running Out’: COVID-19 Set Back Older Students the Most, Study Finds
Those who came of age during the pandemic are facing ‘an insidious and hidden’ derailment, one researcher says. Middle- and high-school...
Rachel Langan
- Sep 19
CNN: Schools got $190 billion in pandemic aid, but the funds haven’t reversed learning loss.
Why? Read the article to find out. Spoiler alert: because the current school board voted THREE TIMES to keep schools closed in 2020-21. ...
Rachel Langan
- Sep 16
Do you REALLY know how your child is doing at school?
Many American parents have no idea how their kids are doing in school. In third grade, Cristyonna mostly got As and Bs on her report...
Rachel Langan
- Sep 15
Solutions: Let's stop "teaching to the test" and start measuring real-life skills.
Carnegie, ETS Team Up to Develop Competency-Based Assessments Amid a tough market for testing, two leading players in education are...
Rachel Langan
- Sep 12
Back to School: 6 Tips From Students on How to Make High School Relevant
Students at innovative high schools offer advice on how educators can make learning more engaging and relatable. We've been talking about...
Rachel Langan
- Sep 7
Did you know that the PA Department of Education put 3 WCASD schools on their "watch list"?
Fugett Middle, Greystone Elementary, and Peirce Middle are all on a state watch list because students in those schools are experiencing a...
Rachel Langan
- Sep 6
The number of WCASD students taking the SAT declines by nearly 20%.
College is no longer a given for Gen Z. In 2022, 718 WCASD students took the SAT, down from 869 students in 2020. This is a decrease of...
Rachel Langan
- Aug 18
What is a principal's job?
Yesterday we looked at how much principals earn, and today we'll look at what they get paid to do. When you read the title of today's...
Rachel Langan
- Aug 11
How the pandemic — and its aftermath — is shaping schools and education policy.
7 Insights into Pandemic Recovery and Aftermath in U.S. Schools Click or tap here to read the full article, including charts. These...
Rachel Langan
- Aug 8
Pandemic Emergency May Be Officially Over, but Education’s Long COVID Continues
With progress stalled, students need over 4 extra months of school to catch up to pre-pandemic levels. Middle school, Black & Latino kids...
Rachel Langan
- Aug 5
What we're reading: about giftedness
Two of our candidates are former special education teachers (Amanda & Nick) and it's important to shine a light on gifted education...
Rachel Langan
- Aug 2
Solutions: Focus on Literacy
While education in PA is mostly the responsibility of the local school district, the state and federal governments do have input from...
Rachel Langan
- Jul 27
America’s Education System Is a Mess, and It’s Students Who Are Paying the Price
The fundamental cause of poor outcomes is that policy leaders have eroded the instructional core and designed our education system for...
Rachel Langan
- Jul 20
Addressing Learning Loss: Solutions for Spending COVID Relief Funds
Three years ago, the nation’s schools received the first installment in what would become the largest infusion ever of federal funds for...
Rachel Langan
- Jul 14
Incoming 9th graders need an extra year of school to overcome Covid learning loss.
The NWEA results show students who finished eighth grade this year need an additional 7.4 months of learning to reach pre-pandemic levels...
Rachel Langan
- Jul 11
Solutions: Building Diverse College Campuses Starts in Kindergarten
We've talked a lot about the problems facing WCASD. It's time to offer solutions. The academic gap (exacerbated by Covid) is not unique...
Rachel Langan
- Jul 10
What We're Listening To: Why Can't Johnny Read?
Why Can’t Johnny Read? Because only 1/4 of teacher-prep programs are teaching reading instruction well. A review of almost 700...
Rachel Langan
- Jun 5
Four Chester County School Districts Ranked in the Top 25 for 2023
WCASD is not amongst them. The rankings were based on the results of the PSSA’s and the Keystone exams, based on data from Pittsburgh...
Rachel Langan
- May 31
Redefining K12 Education and the Rise of Bottom-Up Education Models
“Americans don’t want ‘better’; they want different,” said Todd Rose, a former Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and the...
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