News Briefs
A new study examines how teachers at four “pioneering” urban high schools are using student data to inform a “more responsive and targeted” approach to instruction.
December 1, 2008
Despite arguments about the effect of collective bargaining contracts on student achievement, research on the question remains “limited, ambiguous, and incomplete,” a report says.
December 1, 2008
Governors and states should support university-based leadership-training programs and nontraditional organizations that focus on developing charter school leaders, a new report says.
December 1, 2008
In its third annual report, the Data Quality Campaign concludes that six states have all 10 elements of a longitudinal data system that can track the academic growth of individual students from year to year, from preschool through college.
December 1, 2008
The majority of states have not seen big changes recently in the rates of students they exclude from the National Assessment of Educational Progress because of disabilities, a new study finds.
December 1, 2008
A new report outlines strategies to help more students make use of the school choice provision in the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
December 1, 2008
A prestigious education group aims to steer the Obama administration and new Congress toward evidence-based policy changes.
November 19, 2008
Little information exists on whether the $3 billion spent annually has improved the effectiveness of U.S. educators, a report says.
November 19, 2008
The $6 billion spent on the program has helped students with basic decoding but not with understanding, a major study finds.
November 19, 2008
The 1960s radical-turned-education professor opens up to a Washington crowd on school reform and the political campaign that sought to demonize him.
November 18, 2008
Research on two districts finds method channeled more money to needy pupils.
November 17, 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
Media experts have drafted guidelines to help teachers and students grasp the legal issues they say have unnecessarily restricted the use of online resources.
November 11, 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 many calls for "evidence based" decisionmaking notwithstanding, says Eric Schaps, the sad reality is that research has had less constructive influence during the past 10 to 15 years than it did before.
November 4, 2008
Updated: November 4, 2008
Research Connections, a free monthly e-newsletter from the EPE Research Center, includes the latest stories covering education policy, dropout rates, and analysis as well as summaries of recent research studies.
As the nation struggles to close its graduation gap, Diplomas Count 2008 examines states' efforts to forge stronger connections between precollegiate and postsecondary education.
Though states have ratcheted up their expectations for education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, their efforts have yet to yield top-notch performance in those subject areas.