October 7, 2008
Technology has greatly improved the quality of life in areas such as education, health care, energy, transportation, and the environment, says a report released by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
October 7, 2008
The United States military is known for providing high-quality child-care programs, but those services might not be reaching all the military families who need them, says a new study from the RAND Corp.
October 7, 2008
California policymakers should “depoliticize” the student-testing process by creating an “independent scorekeeper” to measure school and student performance and separating those responsibilities from the state education department, says a new report on the state’s education system.
October 7, 2008
Students who participated in the Advanced Placement program were more likely to score higher on college-entrance exams, earn college degrees, and make more money after college than non-AP students, but those differences varied significantly among various racial and ethnic groups, a new study says.
October 6, 2008
Civic and education leaders could reverse the decline in public school enrollment in the nation’s capital and potentially attract up to 20,000 more students to the city’s public schools by 2015 if they improve academic achievement, expand affordable housing options, and strengthen neighborhoods, a new pair of reports concludes.
September 30, 2008
Two professional-development approaches based on a popular early reading program increased teachers’ knowledge of literacy development and their use of explicit reading instruction, but had little effect on achievement among 2nd graders in high-poverty schools, a federal study has found.
September 30, 2008
Children with reading disabilities use more of their brains to comprehend sentences, says one of the first published studies to use functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare brain activity associated with sentence comprehension among children with reading disabilities and typical readers.
September 30, 2008
Pervasive advertising and marketing practices employed by businesses “reach into the lives of children and follow them to school,” concludes a new report.
September 23, 2008
Many of the nation’s schools and day-care centers are ill-prepared to handle emergencies arising from natural and man-made disasters, according to a new report that analyzes licensing requirements throughout the country.
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