Mary Niederberger

Journalist interested in education, child welfare, social justice. Contributer @PINJNews formerly @PublicSourcePA @PittsburghPG [email protected]

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Reporting on student testing?

@MaryNied explains everything from federal policies and laws to important background and history in this 5-part resource.

#edchat #education #edData

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I'm pleased to be among @PINJNews contributors, along with @BrittanyHailer honored by the @PghPressClub for our coverage of education and the Allegheny County Jail.

Here's my project on pandemic learning loss: https://t.co/G4BKauOIf9

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via @NYTimes ⁦@smervosh⁩ National test scores — the first since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic — show math and reading scores of 9-year-olds dropped to levels from two decades ago https://t.co/s2IwEkfsvi

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Kindergarten camps are helping Pittsburgh area students who missed preschool during the pandemic: https://t.co/L10E1F05nX @MaryNied @NEXTpittsburgh @Trying_Together @DukeCitySD @DukesSupINT @Avonworthschool @quakervalley @AlleghenyIU3 @PreK4PA @HeadStartgov

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⁦@PPSnews⁩ ⁦@DukeCitySD⁩ and ⁦@quakervalley⁩ are among districts helping to prepare students for kindergarten in the wake of preschool absences via ⁦@NEXTpittsburgh⁩ & ⁦@PINJNews⁩ https://t.co/QQqy9CJls0

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“The playing field is totally not level if kids have not been to pre-k” — Summer programs for rising kindergartners are trying to fill in social/emotional and learning gaps caused by pandemic preschool absences. https://t.co/8VH2VVtcWN

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Breaking via ⁦@angolds⁩ https://t.co/eaTA0LyK5U

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Pittsburgh Public Schools students get lessons to help fill pandemic learning gaps and opportunities for hobbies and fun via the summer BOOST program. https://t.co/w1LkLJXsI7

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The first annual Disability Pride Pittsburgh event takes place Saturday. It honors the 32nd anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

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It’s been a hard time for librarians. Enter an epic sleepover of stuffed toys. https://t.co/tMOG6cYd1a

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What Killed “Equity” in Pine-Richland?

Here’s the story of Policy 832 and how changing values in a community brought an abrupt end to efforts to support diversity and inclusion in one of the area’s most high-achieving and well-resourced school districts https://t.co/auOMyaOzNd

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Some local kids are struggling so much in math that they scored 0% proficiency in last year’s state tests. @PINJNews reporter Mary Niederberger shares how some of that is fallout from the pandemic, but some of it… well… we’ve just got to do a better job.
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Students struggled with math before the pandemic. It’s even worse now especially for Black, brown and poor students. How are districts responding?

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Does tutoring + culturally relevant lessons + double math periods = math proficiency?

If all goes as planned, students in the Pittsburgh Public Schools who are struggling with math will be able to access a tutor around the clock.

Via ⁦@MaryNied⁩
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A man died in jail. Now his mother calls for an investigation into a judge’s decision to keep him there despite charges being dropped. - Pittsburgh Institute of Nonprofit Journalism https://t.co/nj7MDP4zpA

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Thank you to ⁦@jake_mysliwczyk⁩ and @kinsley17 who contributed to “Leveling the Playing Field” which won two ⁦@PghPressClub⁩ Golden Quills. https://t.co/rLfbO5zMu6

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Ditto @BrittanyHailer

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We’re less than a year old and I couldn’t be more proud of our little team that could! ⁦@PINJNews⁩ is my heart! ⁦@jodydiperna⁩ ⁦@MaryNied⁩

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.@PINJNews won its first state-wide awards in two categories in the @KeystoneSPJ Excellence in Journalism contest.

We won both 1st and 2nd place in the enterprise category for non-daily news.

And @MaryNied won 1st place in education for both non-daily and daily newspapers!

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An incarcerated man died at the Allegheny County Jail Thursday. This death is the third to occur this year and the 14th since the onset of the COVID pandemic.
No details were given about the individual's medical emergency.

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Anti-bullying protest at Deer Lakes canceled because of bullying, student organizers say | https://t.co/UsDYbNCUrP https://t.co/HkULOcT0B1

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⁦@CarlowU⁩ and ⁦@duqedu⁩ student teachers team up with K-12 students from ⁦@PPSnews⁩ and other local schools to help each other fill pandemic gaps in their learning https://t.co/RtvoE3zhaX