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Dallas ISD students largely mirror U.S. trends in national assessment of student progress
0According to the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD) scores in both fourth-grade reading, and eighth-grade math and reading, held steady from the previous year. The test, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, is administered every two years. This is the fourth time, since 2011, that Dallas ISD has participated in the Trial Urban District Assessment, or TUDA, and is the first year the nation’s students tested with an online digital-based assessment. Overall, Dallas’ fourth-grade math scores are still above those in comparable large cities, despite a slight decrease. The scores for…
District staff, students part of Texas Library Association conference
0The Texas Library Association’s (TLA) Annual Conference wrapped up on Friday, April 6, in Dallas, and included representation from Dallas ISD. More than 20 Dallas ISD school librarians presented professional development sessions and district librarians introduced 12 session speakers at the at the conference, which is the largest statewide librarian conference in the U.S. There were an estimated 7,000 librarians from universities, public school districts and public libraries in attendance. Jerry Handford, a student at Cesar Chavez Learning Center and champion of this year’s campus spelling bee, represented his school at the Texas Bluebonnet Award Luncheon. Handford said he wanted…
Discover summer programs that stop summer learning loss
0Summer loss of knowledge and skills is real, and decades of studies prove it. Fortunately, experts agree there is a remedy: filling the summer with hands-on, enriching and fun activities that support learning, such as the ones offered in summer school or summer programs through community organizations. Dallas ISD offers a variety of enrichment summer programs with emphasis in the arts, science, technology and other areas that will help prevent summer loss by reinforcing what students learned during the year in fun and interactive sessions. “We want to expose our students to engaging academic and enrichment activities during the summer,”…
More than 1,000 students interview for prestigious paid summer internships (video)
0It’s 10:30 a.m. on a Tuesday, and Julia, a student at Hillcrest High School, is already in the middle of her sixth job interview for the day. She is making her case to her potential summer employer that she is willing to learn about anything. “I don’t want to be ignorant, so if I can learn more about any subject, I think it will benefit me in many ways,” she explains. Julia is among the hundreds of Dallas ISD students vying for one of 370 coveted summer internships with the Mayor’s Intern Fellows Program. Students that land an internship at…