The nation has few real examples of dramatic school change, experts say, leading to a lack of information on what strategies work.
August 4, 2009 - Education Week
As a method for evaluating teachers’ effectiveness, researchers say, the technique has some drawbacks.
July 1, 2009 | Updated: April 4, 2012 - Education Week
Despite evidence that women have achieved parity on math and science achievement tests, men still outnumber women at the top levels of most of those fields.
June 16, 2009 - Education Week
Consortium shares its approach to creating partnerships that tap data for solving real world school problems.
May 26, 2009 | Updated: April 4, 2012 - Education Week
At least 14 countries have introduced a form of the publicly financed, privately run schools pioneered by the United States.
May 18, 2009 - Education Week
Free products on the Web help teachers across the middle school curriculum develop literacy.
May 7, 2009 | Updated: April 4, 2012 - Education Week
Researchers find that high school graduation tests are hitting certain groups harder than others.
April 27, 2009 - Education Week
Though more Windy City students are taking challenging academic programs, too few are making it into selective colleges, a study finds.
April 23, 2009 | Updated: April 4, 2012 - Education Week
Researchers get advice at the AERA’s annual meeting on partnering with states and districts to tap economic-stimulus aid.
April 21, 2009 - Education Week
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 - Education Week
Disappointing results from federally commissioned experiments are prompting questions about the studies’ designs—and their payoff.
March 31, 2009 - Education Week
The academic success of children of immigrants to the United States tends to decline from the first to the third generations.
March 16, 2009 - Education Week
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 - Education Week
A new generation of programs and a rigorous research effort are helping clarify the potential learning gains of TV viewing.
March 2, 2009 - Education Week
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 - Education Week
Interest is growing among teachers and researchers in using “graphica” as a means of promoting literacy and other academic skills.
February 9, 2009 - Education Week
A collection of research studies aims to explain why progress on narrowing U.S. test-scores differences stalled for many years.
February 2, 2009 - Education Week
The watchwords for the field of education research in the post-Bush era seem headed toward "development" and "innovation."
January 27, 2009 - Education Week
While the incoming president is sparking interest in mixed-race children, the research base on their schooling contains sizeable gaps.
January 21, 2009 - Education Week
Scholars in a city-based consortium are studying practices that are helping students stay on track academically at all grade levels.
December 17, 2008 | Updated: December 13, 2011 - Education Week
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 - Education Week
A congressionally requested study of the federal research-review agency cheers federal officials but leaves critics unsatisfied.
November 21, 2008 | Updated: December 2, 2008 - Education Week
Noted Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner is leading a team studying the social and ethical norms of young people on the Web.
November 14, 2008 - Education Week
A fellowship program funds studies designed to cater more to educators’ real-world concerns than to the expectations of academia.
November 6, 2008 - Education Week
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 - Education Week
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 - Education Week
Checklist of questions helps test creators avoid needless confusion for students with disabilities.
October 20, 2008 - Education Week
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 - Education Week
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 - Education Week
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 - Education Week
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.
October 3, 2008 | Updated: May 8, 2010 - Education Week
New analysis joins a small but growing body of research on absenteeism in the early grades.
September 30, 2008 - Education Week
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.
September 17, 2008 | Updated: September 23, 2008 - Education Week
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 - Education Week
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 - Education Week