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Inside School Research

The Inside School Research blog covered education research behind big policy debates and daily classroom concerns. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research, teaching research, and leadership research.

School & District Management How Do Parents Choose a 'High Quality' School?
The ease or difficulty of finding information is one of the factors that can shape how parents choose schools.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 24, 2017
4 min read
School & District Management How Would Trump's School Choice Innovation Research Grants Work?
Depending on how you look at it, the $100 million Education Innovation and Research grant program would either get more than triple the funding under the White House's proposed fiscal 2018 budget ... or flat funding ... or maybe a small cut.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 23, 2017
3 min read
School & District Management Education Research: How the Trump Budget Stacks Up
The Institute of Education Sciences escapes mostly unscathed in President Donald Trump's proposed budget for fiscal 2018, but education research in other agencies faces cuts.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 23, 2017
6 min read
School & District Management Big Data in Education Needs Better Outreach, National Report Says
The National Academy of Education is urging researchers to talk more about data, and question more how companies get large data collections.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 22, 2017
2 min read
Science Career Education Needs New Supports, Skill Focus, National Report Says
The skills needed for technical careers have changed significantly, and education programs need to do more to support evolving technical education, according to a mammoth new report on career education by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 17, 2017
2 min read
School & District Management Districts Moving Away From Desktop Technology in Favor of Mobile, Report Finds
The mobile education technology cart might be edging out the computer lab in many districts, according to a new analysis by the Education Week Research Center.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 16, 2017
1 min read
Families & the Community Early Signs of Benefits for Boosting Parent-Child Education
Pairing adult education for parents with early learning for their children shows some promising signs to help families out of poverty, according to one Oklahoma study.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 12, 2017
2 min read
School & District Management HHS Ponders Eliminating Preschool Expulsion Data in National Survey
Research and child advocacy groups have signed onto a letter opposing the change.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 11, 2017
4 min read
Student Well-Being & Movement Student Absenteeism: Three Studies to Know
But new research on chronic absenteeism reveals a lot of surprising details can make a difference in whether students make it to class.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 8, 2017
5 min read
Federal Finishing School—Not Leaving Home—Seen as Primary Marker of Adulthood
What does it mean to be an adult? New federal data show today's young people focus on educational, not social milestones.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 5, 2017
1 min read
Student Well-Being & Movement Getting Kids Moving Now Could Save Billions in Later Health Costs, Study Finds
Getting more students to be physically active at least three times a day could pay off in billions of dolars in health care savings, a new study shows.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 4, 2017
2 min read
School Choice & Charters Congress Budget Deal Bans New Gold-Standard Studies of Federal Vouchers
As part of a fiscal 2017 budget deal, Congress has forbid the use of randomized, controlled trials in new evaluations of the District of Columbia's school voucher program, the only one that is federally funded.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 2, 2017
3 min read
Student Well-Being & Movement AERA: Early Results in California's CORE Districts Give Lessons for ESSA
As states and districts work to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act, six California districts who received federal waivers under the Obama administration are getting the first hints of how more holistic accountability systems might work.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 2, 2017
5 min read
Education AERA: Measuring Persistence and Self-Control Through Tasks, Not Tests
Researchers at the American Educational Research Association here are exploring ways to replace surveys of social-emotional skills with performance tasks.
Sarah D. Sparks, April 30, 2017
4 min read