Posts Tagged ‘assessment’
EdWeek Market Brief Summit – Autumn 2021
by Kevin J. Gray, President and Chief Content Officer Earlier this month, I attended the EdWeek Market Brief Summit. The annual event has proven to be an excellent source for information and perspectives that help us understand how the education market is evolving and changing. Here are some of the top themes and topics…
Read MoreEdWeek Market Brief Summit Key Takeaways
by Kevin J. Gray, President and Chief Content Officer Westchester Education Services sponsored the EdWeek Market Brief Summit last week, which featured sessions about topics that are top of mind for education content providers. We also participated in two sessions, one a conversation with publisher Maurice Bakley about trends we are tracking in the industry,…
Read MoreMeet Carol Wilson
Carol Wilson recently joined Westchester Education Services as Director of Client Solutions. She draws upon extensive experience developing education products and working alongside teaching professionals. This experience enables her to help guide our clients in created solutions that help students succeed. How did you get your start in curriculum products and solutions? Carol: After…
Read MoreReading Assessment 2019
by Anne Riccio, Senior Supervising Editor, Literacy & Humanities Between January and March 2019, 150,600 fourth-graders from 8,300 schools and 143,100 eighth-graders from 6,950 schools participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment — and the results were not good. Approximately 35% of the 4th graders and 34% of the 8th graders…
Read MoreA Hybrid Approach for Assessment
by Kevin J. Gray, Managing Director While the assessment debate has long pitted summative year-end tests against formative in-course ones, some states are looking to a hybrid approach to gauge student performance. As outlined in this article from EdSurge, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, and New Hampshire are looking to recast their assessment molds, relying more heavily on check-ins throughout the…
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