New Normal in Early Elementary Mathematics Learning: Part II – School-level Variation in Growth in Grades 1 and 2
Despite the critical importance of early elementary education, formal measurement of student learning typically does not occur until third grade when students begin participating in state assessments. In a prior report, Hiroyuki Yamada, a researcher with Curriculum Associates, developed a measure of learning growth for early grades and explored trends in mathematics outcomes for a national sample of students who entered first grade in fall 2021. Yamada found that a subset of schools included in the sample demonstrated significantly more learning growth than the average.