Report Roundup

Teacher Education

December 1, 2009 A new report documents growth in "practice-based" teacher education programs in Massachusetts and makes recommendations on next steps to support them.

Early Childhood

December 1, 2009 One new report looks at early-childhood advisory councils in 19 states as required by Head Start and another researches New Mexico's prekindergarten program.

Community Colleges

December 1, 2009 A study of six Texas community colleges where higher-than-expected numbers of poor and first-generation students progress to four-year schools finds common threads among them.

Charter Schools

December 1, 2009 A new policy brief from a civil rights group is calling on the federal government to do more to counter racial segregation in the nation's growing population of charter schools.

Online Learning

December 1, 2009 More than half of U.S. states now operate online-learning initiatives for K-12 students, an increase over the 15 states that did so just two years ago.

Dropout Costs Priced for 50 Major U.S. Cities

November 25, 2009 If half the students who dropped out of the class of 2008 had graduated, they would have generated $4.1 billion more in wages, according to a new analysis.

Career and Technical Education

November 17, 2009

Stereotype Awareness

November 17, 2009

Autism and Handwriting

November 17, 2009

Gifted Education

November 17, 2009

Comprehensive Sex Ed. Programs Effective, Panel Finds

November 13, 2009 A panel of experts has concluded that comprehensive sex education programs help reduce teenagers' risky sexual behavior.

Teacher Quality

November 10, 2009 A new paper from the National Academy of Education argues that, while weeding out ineffective teachers is important, improving the supply of skilled teachers is "critical."

9th Grade Bulge

November 10, 2009 Over the 2004-05 school year, more than 90,000 students from six states repeated 9th grade, according to a new report that is aimed at getting a statistical handle on what researchers call the "9th grade bulge."

High School Exit Exams

November 10, 2009 The stakes attached to high school exit exams have risen since 2002, with 16 more states withholding diplomas from students who can't pass them than did so that year.

Lead and Learning

November 10, 2009

Survey Finds 'Gen Y' Teachers Open to Merit Pay

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