Supporting Students and Schools: Promising Practices to Get Back on Track. Hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, Second Session on Examining Supporting Students and Schools, Focusing on Promising Practices to Get Back on Track (June 22, 2022). Senate Hearing 117-401

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Hearings; Best Practices; Achievement Gap; Racial Differences; Legislators; Administrator Attitudes; State Departments of Education; Teacher Attitudes; High School Teachers; Parent Attitudes; Data Analysis; School District Wealth; White Students; African American Students; Institutional Characteristics; Educational Strategies; Achievement Tests; Disadvantaged; Elementary Secondary Education; Emergency Programs; Federal Aid; COVID-19; Grants; Pandemics; Distance Education; Attendance; Educational Improvement; Barriers; Access to Education

Data shows that kids are months or even years behind where they would be in a typical year. And a deepening educational divide between majority white schools and majority black schools, between wealthier school districts and higher poverty districts. The results of this year's statewide exams made abundantly clear what other data is showing as well. This hearing on Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions examines supporting students and schools, focusing on promising practices to get back on track. Opening statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Patty Murray, Chair, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; and (2) Honorable Bill Cassidy, a U.S. Senator from the State of Louisiana. Witness statements were presented by: (1) Dan Goldhaber, Director, CALDER (National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research at American Institutes for Research), Director, CEDR (Center for Education Data and Research at University of Washington), Seattle, Washington; (2) Charlene M. Russell-Tucker, Commissioner, Connecticut State Department of Education, Hartford, Connecticut; (3) Kurt Russell, 2022 National Teacher of the Year and High School History Teacher, Oberlin High School, Oberlin, Ohio; and (4) Erin Wall, Parent, Cary, North Carolina.

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