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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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research, teaching research, and leadership research.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 Achievement Children of the Recession Moving to Higher Education
The National Center for Education Statistics tracks how students who started high school in 2009 have fared in the years since.
Sarah D. Sparks, June 25, 2015
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Education Identifying School District Leaders Who Make Education Research Work
Researchers can highlight education leaders who understand how to partner on studies.
Sarah D. Sparks, June 25, 2015
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Student Achievement How Do We Understand Poverty Without Relying on Federal Free-Meal Statistics?
A new federal guide offers school officials and researchers ways to structure new measures of students' socioeconomic status.
Sarah D. Sparks, June 24, 2015
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School & District Management How Do We Move Social-Emotional Research From Buzzwords to Practice?
A new report tries to take hot education research terms on social-emotional intelligence and create a coherent guide for practitioners.
Sarah D. Sparks, June 24, 2015
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College & Workforce Readiness Is Advanced Placement's Value in the Class or the Test?
A Utah study suggests the main benefit for Advanced Placement students comes for those who complete and pass the test.
Sarah D. Sparks, June 22, 2015
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College & Workforce Readiness It's Not Either Associate or Bachelor's Degree; for Many Students, It's Both
More than 40 percent of graduates with an associate degree go on to earn a bachelor's degree, finds a new report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Sarah D. Sparks, June 18, 2015
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Science Can Sorting Teach Students to Make Better Connections Among Subjects?
Can a more sophisticated version of a child's sorting game boost students' science understanding?
Sarah D. Sparks, June 18, 2015
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School & District Management Library of Brain Scans Highlights Children's Language Development
A new federal research study works to pinpoint areas of the brain used for listening, speaking, and paying attention, and how they change as a child grows.
Sarah D. Sparks, June 15, 2015
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School & District Management City Year Schools Twice as Likely to See Math, English Boosts, Study Finds
A new evaluation shows promising results for a program pairing young adults with students in high-poverty schools.
Sarah D. Sparks, June 9, 2015
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Science Students Without Financial Education Plan Less for a Rainy Day, Study Finds
Young people without education in financial literacy were about half as likely to save for emergencies as adults, according to a new study.
Jacob Bell, June 5, 2015
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School & District Management Education Sciences Board to Look at Drugs and Student Achievement
Education researchers discuss a new longitudinal study on the effects of drug use at the quarterly meeting of the Education Department's research advisory board.
Sarah D. Sparks, June 4, 2015
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School & District Management Federal Innovation Grants To Target Teacher Effectiveness, High School Redesign
The federal research and development program looks for more interventions to scale.
Alyson Klein, June 4, 2015
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College & Workforce Readiness Condition of Education: Are There College 'Dropout Factories'?
Federal data highlights deep disparities in college attainment.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 28, 2015
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Education Does Google Help Students Learn (or Just Think They Do?)
Researchers at the Association for Psychological Science find online searches may affect the way students remember and think about what they learn.
Sarah D. Sparks, May 26, 2015
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