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Evidence Matters | Making the Grade: The Socioeconomic Achievement Gap

July 6, 2023 In our previous post, we highlighted that while school report card rankings can offer insight into a school’s overall performance, they also involve the interaction of a variety of factors—the most significant...

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Evidence Matters | Making the Grade: A Series on the Complexities of School Report Cards

June 15, 2023 With the school year coming to a close, all grades and final report cards have been issued. But one major end-of-year assessment remains outstanding: the South Carolina school report card. Each fall,...

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Evidence Matters | Could the Montessori Method Make Us Happier?

April 26, 2023 According to a January 2023 survey administered by the South Carolina Joint Citizens and Legislative Committee on Children, many school districts in the state continue to report record numbers of vacancies in...

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Evidence Matters | What Montessori Could Mean for Equity

April 12, 2023 Across the country, leaders in public education continue to search for strategies and approaches that address the gap between our highest-performing and lowest-performing students, the latter of whom often come from low-income,...

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Evidence Matters | Making Sense of Montessori

March 29, 2023 As noted in our previous blog post, the Riley Institute’s Evidence Matters series will focus on a wide range of topics relevant to the field of public education. Today’s post will be...

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Why Evidence Matters: A New Blog Series Highlighting Important Topics in Public Education

March 16, 2023 If you asked 100 people what the word evidence means to them, you might receive 100 different answers. In a society increasingly overloaded with information—and plagued by doubts about what is “real”—...

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