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REL Mid-Atlantic partners with educators and policymakers in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania to improve learner outcomes. Learn more about REL Mid-Atlantic.
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Aug 31

Some Schools Saw Their Climate Improve During Remote and Hybrid Instruction. What Should We Make of That?

Earlier this month, we released our report from a study of school climate in Pennsylvania, conducted in partnership with the Office of Safe Schools at the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE). The report examined a handful of Pennsylvania schools...
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Aug 25

School Climate During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Sample of Pennsylvania Schools

This fact sheet shares key findings from a study that assessed how school climate changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pennsylvania Department of Education’s (PDE’s) Office for Safe Schools partnered with REL Mid-Atlantic to conduct a study using...
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Aug 10

Changes in School Climate During COVID-19 in a Sample of Pennsylvania Schools

This REL Mid-Atlantic study assessed how school climate changed during the pandemic using data from the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s school climate survey, and found an unexpected improvement in school climate during the year when much instruction...
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Jun 16

Outcomes, Impacts, and Processes: A Framework for Understanding School Performance

This framework offers an improved measurement strategy states and districts can implement to answer three critical questions about school performance: 1. How are students doing? 2. How much does the school contribute to how students are doing? and 3....
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Jun 14

Illuminating School Performance Measures: Building a Brighter Flashlight

Attention to historically underserved student groups has long been a focus of federal accountability. In 2022, for the first time in three years, states had to identify low-performing schools, including those where particular subgroups of students are...
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Stabilizing School Performance Measures for Accuracy and Equity
School performance measures can be misleading—especially when they involve small numbers of students. While attention to historically underserved student groups has long been a focus of federal accountability under the Every Student Succeeds Act, examining...

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