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The Mercury News
Coronavirus: California data show substantial learning loss, inequity
January 26, 2021
An Education Analytics study published by Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) comparing interim assessment scores across districts in California found significant learning loss in language arts and math, with greater learning loss among younger and low-income students.
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Los Angeles Times
Will California campuses reopen this school year? It depends on vaccinating teachers, infection rates
January 26, 2021
As concerns rise over learning losses caused by the pandemic, schools across California are facing the reality that they are unlikely to reopen until teachers are vaccinated against COVID-19 and infection rates decline. Education Analytics' recent study of learning loss in 18 California districts, published by Policy Analysis for California Education, underscores the negative impact the pandemic has had on student learning in the state.
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EdSource
Initial data for California confirm early grades, low-income children hit hardest by "learning loss"
January 26, 2021
An Education Analytics study published by Policy Analysis for California Education found substantial learning loss by Fall 2020 due to the pandemic for students in grades 3 to 8 in 18 California districts, with the greatest losses in math and reading for students in grades 5 and 6.
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91.3 WYSO
Stats and Stories: Back to school statistics
August 17, 2019
School districts across the U.S. are working to understand how to meet the educational needs of their students and the instructional needs of their teachers. Increasingly districts are turning to data to help them do that. The data of education and educational policy is the focus of the latest episode of Stats & Stories. The two guests for this episode, Nichole Webster and Libby Pier, are both from the education research non-profit Education Analytics.
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The74
How 8 large California districts are using data to decode social-emotional learning—and predict students' academic success
March 5, 2019
Education Analytics is featured in a SXSW EDU session covering the history of the CORE Districts' innovations in measuring students' social-emotional learning, including the development of their survey to track academic and social-emotional skills and how data analysis has helped them see how different subgroups of students are learning these skills.
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The74
These California school districts joined forces to bolster social-emotional development, but a study of 400,000 kids reveals learning gaps and a confidence crisis among middle school girls
July 12, 2018
An Education Analytics study of 400,000 students in California's CORE Districts from 4th to 12th grades found that girls' self-efficacy plummets as they enter middle school, and White students consistently report higher social-emotional learning than their non-White peers.
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