Researchers find that high school graduation tests are hitting certain groups harder than others.
April 27, 2009
Researchers get advice at the AERA’s annual meeting on partnering with states and districts to tap economic-stimulus aid.
April 21, 2009
A decade after the attack at a Colorado high school, scholars are gaining fresh insights into student gunmen and the havoc they wreak.
April 7, 2009
Disappointing results from federally commissioned experiments are prompting questions about the studies’ designs—and their payoff.
March 31, 2009
The academic success of children of immigrants to the United States tends to decline from the first to the third generations.
March 16, 2009
To ease staffing challenges, research suggests, focus less on minting new teachers than on keeping the skilled ones already on the job.
March 6, 2009
A new generation of programs and a rigorous research effort are helping clarify the potential learning gains of TV viewing.
March 2, 2009
Philadelphia schools run by for-profit companies outperformed district-run schools in math, and also do better in both math and reading than schools that are managed by nonprofit organizations.
February 23, 2009
Interest is growing among teachers and researchers in using “graphica” as a means of promoting literacy and other academic skills.
February 9, 2009
A collection of research studies aims to explain why progress on narrowing U.S. test-scores differences stalled for many years.
February 2, 2009
The watchwords for the field of education research in the post-Bush era seem headed toward "development" and "innovation."
January 27, 2009
While the incoming president is sparking interest in mixed-race children, the research base on their schooling contains sizeable gaps.
January 21, 2009
Scholars in a city-based consortium are studying practices that are helping students stay on track academically at all grade levels.
Updated: January 7, 2009
Imagine the research possibilities if every student in the country carried a “virtual backpack” stuffed with statistics on his or her entire educational history.
December 5, 2008
A congressionally requested study of the federal research-review agency cheers federal officials but leaves critics unsatisfied.
Updated: December 2, 2008
Noted Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner is leading a team studying the social and ethical norms of young people on the Web.
November 14, 2008
A fellowship program funds studies designed to cater more to educators’ real-world concerns than to the expectations of academia.
November 6, 2008
The use of rating scales as a way to encourage child-care centers and preschools to improve their programs continues to grow in popularity across the states, even as researchers say states need to do more to share what they find and to demonstrate whether rating systems improve learning.
October 28, 2008
Policymakers need to turn the nation’s school finance systems on their head by connecting education dollars to student-achievement goals and outcomes, according to a study released today.
October 27, 2008
Checklist of questions helps test creators avoid needless confusion for students with disabilities.
October 20, 2008
New research finds that many countries consistently produce a higher percentage of girls with elite math skills than the United States does, which it attributes to a tendency in American society to discourage girls from pursuing those studies.
October 17, 2008
For years, academically gifted children were thought to fit neatly into a category. But developmental psychologists are learning that people who are gifted are not categorized quite so neatly.
October 14, 2008
Making brain research on such topics as executive function digestible to educators in the field is a central goal of a cross-disciplinary project underway in Baltimore.
October 7, 2008
A 15-year research project found that students in career academies were no more likely to attend college than those in traditional high schools, but they earned more money by their mid-20s.
Updated: October 3, 2008
New analysis joins a small but growing body of research on absenteeism in the early grades.
September 30, 2008
Amid shrinking budgets and staff limitations, education departments say they can’t meet the technical requirements for helping struggling schools under the federal law, a study finds.
Updated: September 23, 2008
To tap into the large pool of potential teachers outside the field, policymakers should rethink the training and recruitment of midcareer professionals and address pay and working conditions, a new report suggests.
September 10, 2008
A new study concludes that while teachers appear to be adjusting how they do their jobs, principals and district leaders are not necessarily in control of those instructional changes.
September 8, 2008
A consortium of seven universities received a grant to establish a research group that will search for successful methods for educating a group of students that some experts see as long overlooked.
September 2, 2008
Many students who leave school do return, but schools face disincentives for welcoming them back, a new study suggests.
Updated: September 4, 2008
The Schott Foundation pledges to step up advocacy efforts to close the gap.
August 5, 2008
Hundreds of education researchers across the country are getting the gift of time to pursue research and hone methodological skills, through fellowships aimed at nurturing young talent in the field.
July 28, 2008
Advocates for researchers and statisticians are at odds with federal education officials and their advisers over the best way to shield the National Center for Education Statistics from political interference.
June 16, 2008
Educators, parents, and communities should make a more concerted effort to help rudderless youths find a clear direction and purpose as they enter adulthood, suggests a new book.
June 9, 2008
As Reading First nears the six-year mark, no clear empirical picture has emerged of how well the federal program is doing nationally to bring struggling readers to proficiency.
June 3, 2008
