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
Yale University researchers are pilot-testing an assessment for identifying gifted and talented children that taps intellectual skills other than those captured by traditional intelligence tests.
May 20, 2008
Preliminary findings suggest that in three states where voters decided to replace bilingual education with structured English immersion may be producing less-than-stellar results.
Updated: May 30, 2008
The statistician who pioneered the use of “value added” research techniques is disputing a critique of his approach that was published recently in a prominent academic journal.
Updated: July 17, 2008
As value-added research designs gain in popularity and undergo increasing scrutiny, experts are beginning to wave cautionary flags about how best to make use of them in education.
Updated: May 6, 2008
The California Dropout Research Project was created in part to help determine how many students quit school before they graduate.
April 28, 2008
A project at Stanford University works with local communities to collect data from multiple child-serving agencies to inform policy and program decisions.
April 22, 2008
Grassroots organizing efforts are driving a boost in parent involvement, more-equitable distribution of funding, and better academic achievement, according to researchers from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
Updated: April 16, 2008
The Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education specializes in calculating and comparing the long- and short-term costs—and probable payoffs—of different educational strategies that promise to improve students’ lives.
April 8, 2008
The U.S. Department of Education is reviewing a less stringent set of rules for maintaining federal security and protecting the privacy of people who take part in federally subsidized research.
March 28, 2008
A new volume of research papers makes the case that innovations aimed at giving families more say in where their children go to school can be whatever their architects make of them.
Updated: July 17, 2008
New research suggests that having to hire substitutes affects more than just a district’s finances.
March 18, 2008
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