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Who Needs Paper? Many Students Embrace the All-Digital SAT.

nwonation.com10 March 2024011 mins

NYT > Top Stories 2024-03-10 11:42:24 The Scantron bubbles were gone. So were the page-long passages and the pressure to speed-read them. No. 2 pencils? Optional, and only for taking notes. On Saturday, students in America took the newest version of the SATwhich was shorter, faster — and most notably, all online. Some exams were…

As schools embrace the science of reading, researchers are criticizing an overemphasis on auditory skills

nwonation.com26 February 2024013 mins

2024-02-26 05:00:51 “If you teach phonemic awareness, students will learn phonemic awareness,” which isn’t the goal, said Tiffany Peltiera learning scientist who consults on literacy training for teachers at NWEA, an assessment company. “If you teach blending and segmenting using letters, students are learning to read and spell.” Phonemic awareness has a complicated history. In…

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