Smaller classes may help some students, but not all, research shows.
Updated: March 6, 2008
According to a new survey, 77 percent of students and more than 80 percent of teachers and parents say homework is important or very important.
February 15, 2008
Experts are beginning to contend that the case is growing stronger for physical activity's link to improved brain function.
February 12, 2008
An ambitious project run by two universities is the largest, most comprehensive and representative study to date of children’s development in rural America.
February 5, 2008
In an era when the U.S. Supreme Court is putting sharp limits on race-conscious student-assignment policies, the guidance from an upcoming book is bound to draw detractors.
January 29, 2008
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching will soon have a new president with a strong national reputation as a precollegiate education researcher.
January 18, 2008
Research from a recent wave of K-8 conversions suggests that determining what kind of grade configurations are best for students is still a complicated and unsettled matter.
January 15, 2008
Few studies have examined whether culture-based instruction affects the achievement of language-minority students, despite its popularity with many educators.
January 8, 2008
A forthcoming research review analyzes school-based programs designed to foster children’s social and emotional skills.
December 18, 2007
While it may sound like a given that added learning time can translate to better test scores, research suggests that whether it does remains an open question.
December 11, 2007
Implicit in some of the coverage was the hopeful idea that many children eventually grow out of the disorder. But that’s not exactly true.
December 3, 2007
Students who regularly attend top-notch after-school programs end up academically far ahead of peers who spend more out-of-school time in unsupervised activities, a study found.
November 27, 2007
The Brookings Institution has unveiled a volume of studies on the potential effects of the federal law’s various provisions on this vulnerable population of students.
November 8, 2007
Students from low-income households could constitute more than half of K-12 enrollment in public schools nationally within 10 years, a report contends.
November 2, 2007
At schools that are part of the New Century High Schools initiative, 78 percent of students graduate in four years, compared with 58 percent at the city's other high schools.
October 26, 2007
Researchers are developing tools and techniques to improve the academic achievement of students who are most likely to suffer from negative stereotypes in the classroom.
October 23, 2007
Children with disabilities may face challenges in maintaining healthy body weights, including a lack of outlets designed to help them engage in physical activity.
October 16, 2007
Producing work that educators actually want to use is the raison d’être for an ambitious national research-and-development program known as the Strategic Education Research Partnership.
October 9, 2007
More than 30 years’ worth of studies of elementary-level peer-tutoring programs suggests that both the tutor and the tutee learn better when they teach each other.
October 2, 2007
The job of school boards is being redefined, and weakened, by changes taking place at the national, state, and local levels.
September 24, 2007
A new book tells a cautionary tale about large high schools that are divided up into smaller subunits.
September 18, 2007
Four research centers are working on classifying learning disabilities and improving understanding of interventions for children with reading problems.
September 10, 2007
Studies find that ‘highly qualified’ definitions differ broadly across states.
September 4, 2007
The National Charter School Research Project has spent three years trying to bring a neutral perspective to the contentious charter school debate.
August 23, 2007
The research base on successful turnaround strategies in education is too new and too thin to be of much help to schools, scholars say.
August 14, 2007
The U.S. Education Department's statistics arm, citing budget and staffing constraints, won't take part in a 2008 study of physics and upper-level-math performance.
July 26, 2007
Studies suggest that recruits have higher college-entrance examination scores and degrees from choosier colleges.
July 16, 2007
At a research workshop hosted by the National Academies, scholars debated what students need to know for future employment.
June 13, 2007
Experts estimate that only three states have looked to see if "supplemental educational services" are boosting students’ scores on state tests.
June 12, 2007
Recent studies have shown that a computer-based training program developed in Sweden helps sharpen the “working memory” skills of children and teenagers with ADHD.
June 4, 2007
Policymakers and educators are urged to become better ‘consumers’ of knowledge born from studies in education research.
May 21, 2007
The Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration program effectively died in 2006, but a new study offers a fitting epitaph for the program: Models matter.
May 14, 2007
College and university programs that prepare the nation’s education researchers suffer from mission muddle, a lack of common and rigorous standards, and inadequate resources.
May 7, 2007
Peggy McCardle has kept a lower profile than that of her predecessor, G. Reid Lyon, which observers say reflects a changing tone in debates over reading instruction methods.
May 1, 2007
Some children are helped, but others become distracted by in-class "manipulatives."
April 24, 2007
