We invite you to explore this report with that standard in mind: bit.ly/4rH2F1t
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We're a team of local leaders and advocates working toward a high-quality education for all kids, regardless of their address.
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Today, we're releasing Evidence of Impact: the 2025 CANnual Report.
The test of any advocacy campaign is simple: is it making life better for the people it was built to serve?
That is the standard we’re holding ourselves to at 50CAN as we work to usher in a new wave of educational opportunity.
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Now they tell us: "In particular, he rues some of the victories his group (alongside the teachers union and the Council of School Administrators) achieved ... Among them: undercutting state reading assessments by helping pass perhaps the nation’s strongest testing opt-out law"
Alexander Russo@alexanderrusso
A former education lobbyist has some regrets. Unprepared: The Broken Pipeline Teaching Oregon’s Teachers — Oregon Journalism Project oregonjournalismproject.org/unprepared-bro…
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ICYMI yesterday: @lizcohen12 follows the data in @The74 to determine the biggest barriers to making tutoring universal. Worth a read!
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"It is time that policymakers take up this charge from their voters and make 2026 the year that tutoring becomes a permanent part of the American educational experience."
@lizcohen12 argues in a new piece in @The74 today that the time to act on making tutoring truly universal is now.
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I 1000% agree with this.
50CAN@FiftyCAN
"It is time that policymakers take up this charge from their voters and make 2026 the year that tutoring becomes a permanent part of the American educational experience." @lizcohen12 argues in a new piece in @The74 today that the time to act on making tutoring truly universal is now.
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.@lizcohen12: What would it take to make tutoring truly universal? The main barrier is expense, with 30% of parents whose children are not in tutoring saying that it’s too expensive. Access is another challenge. @FiftyCAN buff.ly/mlAmPf7
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We need to be much tougher on grade inflation
"The cumulative impact is economically significant: a teacher with one standard deviation higher average grade inflation reduces the present discounted value of lifetime earnings of their students by $213,872 per year."
Jeff Denning@JeffDenning
Today we released our new NBER working paper: "Easy A's, Less Pay: The Long-Term Effects of Grade Inflation." Joint work with Rachel Nesbit, Nolan Pope, and Merrill Warnick. Grades in U.S. high schools have risen steadily over the past several decades, but the effect is unknown
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@Stand4Children @lizcohen12 If you haven't yet, make sure you pick up a copy of Liz's book "The Future of Tutoring": //www.amazon.com/Future-Tutoring-Lessons-District-Initiatives/dp/B0DZGKPL4Q
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At @Stand4Children's high dosage tutoring symposium in Oregon this week, 50CAN VP of Policy @lizcohen12 said data shows that helping kids succeed with literacy early in life can pay huge dividends.
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ICYMI: I wrote about recent research showing links between the spread of high-speed internet and declining mental health among kids (link below)
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Meanwhile high school teachers fighting a kind of rear guard action to keep books in the curriculum rather than just excerpts and passages.
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee
I don’t think a lot of people understand how bad it has gotten in elementary school Parents are fighting to keep their kids away from screens and junk videos only to have their public schools give away the game
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Checking in on Virginia's academic recovery. How would you grade this performance?
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“Of the 32 states that have kept the same math test since before COVID, seven met or exceeded 2019 proficiency rates: Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Rhode Island and Tennessee.”
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“We have to prioritize protecting the attention span and the brain development of our children. To ignore this is akin to neglect.” — Sonja Santelises
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee
"Sonja Santelises has had enough."
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Mahnken's latest is exceptional, asking and answering a question I've had for months: what's the problem in Oregon?
Kevin Mahnken@KevinMahnken
New from me this week: Oregon has one of the shortest school years in the U.S., and one of the highest rates of chronic absenteeism. Critics argue that the relative lack of learning time helps explain the state's academic slump (link below)
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