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New Whitepaper: Literacy Assessment and Intervention for Older Students (Featuring ROAR)
For decades a persistent belief has shaped U.S. education: students “learn to read” in K-3 and then “read to learn”
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Is Structured Linguistic Phonics effective for older students? Early findings from a new Reading Reimagined study
AERDF’s Reading Reimagined R&D Program and SRI International are exploring a promising way to strengthen reading skills for older elementary
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Meet the free reading assessment tool helping to transform the future of literacy
Despite their best efforts and persistent interventions, educators know that many older students still struggle to read and understand grade-level
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AERDF’s most impactful moments in 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, we at AERDF are proud to reflect on a year marked by promising breakthroughs
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Empowering Learners, Transforming Math Problem-Solving: Inside the CueThinkEF+ & Pennesota Project
The third installment in our EF+Math blog series is a feature on the collaboration between the CueThinkEF+ & Pennesota R&D
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Hiding In Plain Sight: How Complex Decoding Challenges Can Block Comprehension for Older Readers
The news about American students’ reading abilities isn’t good: For far too long, our education system has failed to teach
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Prove the Impossible: How Advanced Inclusive R&D Can Transform Our Nation’s Future
Powerhouse panel of nation’s leading experts discussed the essential role of R&D in the future of education. Our PreK-12
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Unlocking the Power of Math Through Inclusive Design and Executive Function Training: The MathicSTEAM Story
The second installation in our EF+Math blog series is a feature on one of our incredible project teams, MathicSTEAM.
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From Classroom to Co-Design and Research: How Vista Unified Teachers Transformed Math Learning Through Collaborative Product Development
When an email from the principal lands in teacher inboxes asking for volunteers, it doesn’t
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Math
Bringing Joy to Fraction Learning: How Fraction Ball is Transforming Math Education
The fourth installation in our EF+Math blog series is the final piece featuring our incredible
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Math
Empowering Learners, Transforming Math Problem-Solving: Inside the CueThinkEF+ & Pennesota Project
The third installment in our EF+Math blog series is a feature on the collaboration between
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Assessment
Innovating Assessment Through Community-Centered, AI-Powered Design
Assessment For Good, a R&D program with the Advanced Education Research and Development Fund (AERDF),
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Assessment
Why Student Co-Design is at the Heart of Assessment For Good: A Q&A with Dr. Lauren D. Kendall Brooks
Introduction Lifelong learning starts with self-awareness. When students recognize their strengths and understand how
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Reading
Meet the free reading assessment tool helping to transform the future of literacy
Despite their best efforts and persistent interventions, educators know that many older students still struggle
Linda Ziembko
Reading
Hiding In Plain Sight: How Complex Decoding Challenges Can Block Comprehension for Older Readers
The news about American students’ reading abilities isn’t good: For far too long, our education
Linda Ziembko
Reading
Together, Reading Reimagined, Stanford ROAR, and ANet address challenges and create promising solutions to boosting literacy for older students
The majority of American middle and high school students aren’t reading at grade level. Only
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