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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research, teaching research, and leadership research.

Student Well-Being & Movement 'Racial Mismatch' Changes Teacher Expectations for Students, Study Finds
Fifty years after the landmark Pygmalion experiments showed how teacher expectations help or hurt student learning, a new study suggests teachers' own backgrounds deeply affect what they expect from students.
Sarah D. Sparks, September 14, 2015
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School & District Management School Ratings Give Parents Info, But Not Transfer Options, Study Finds
Poor and well-off families responded differently to a Chicago initiative to put low-performing schools on academic probation.
Sarah D. Sparks, September 11, 2015
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School & District Management Budget Cuts Threaten Institute of Education Sciences
The U.S. Education Department's research arm faces bad and even worse cuts in the Senate and House versions of the next budget bill.
Sarah D. Sparks, September 10, 2015
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School & District Management When You're Poor or Homeless, It Can Be a Long Trip to School, Studies Find
Studies in Chicago and New York City suggest poverty and homelessness can scatter students and increase their commute times to class.
Sarah D. Sparks, September 4, 2015
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School & District Management Darling-Hammond Launches New Research Think Tank
Education heavy-hitter Linda Darling-Hammond will be president and chief executive officer of the newly launched Learning Policy Institute.
Sarah D. Sparks, September 3, 2015
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School & District Management If at First You Succeed, Try, Try Again: Challenges in Repeating Research Results
The most comprehensive replication study to date finds that it's often difficult to get the same results from social science experiments the second time around.
Sarah D. Sparks, September 3, 2015
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Student Well-Being & Movement Seriously, Lighten Up! Perfectionism in School Helps and Hurts Students
The perfectionism some students cultivate in school can come back to bite them at work.
Sarah D. Sparks, September 2, 2015
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School & District Management What Do Genes Say About Education? More Than You'd Think.
Within families, genetic differences may affect educational attainment.
Sarah D. Sparks, August 20, 2015
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School & District Management Feds Release Maps of School Attendance Zones
The National Center for Education Statistics has released mapping data on school attendance zones in the United States for the 2013-14 school year.
Sarah D. Sparks, August 19, 2015
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Teaching The Family Roots of Math Anxiety
Children learn what they live, particularly when it comes to loving or fearing mathematics, a new study finds.
Sarah D. Sparks, August 10, 2015
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School Climate & Safety Since Michael Brown, Police Shot and Killed 53 Teenagers. Who Were They?
Mischief, mental health issues and misunderstandings can be deadly for teenagers in encounters with the police.
Sarah D. Sparks, August 9, 2015
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School & District Management What We're Talking About When We Say 'Teacher Shortage'
The overall number of teachers is growing, but that still leaves holes in crucial areas.
Ross Brenneman, August 6, 2015
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Early Childhood Storytelling Can Predict Later Literacy in Black Preschoolers
But the link between "oral narrative" skills and early literacy was not seen in Latino, Asian, or white children, the study found.
Christina A. Samuels, August 5, 2015
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School & District Management International Baccalaureate Saw Rapid Growth in High-Poverty Schools
More high-poverty schools are offering the advanced high school diploma, but poor students are still less likely to participate.
Sarah D. Sparks, July 31, 2015
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