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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research, teaching research, and leadership research.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.