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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research, teaching research, and leadership research.
Education
UCLA Report Urges Caution on Community-School Approach
A report by a UCLA research center criticizes models that rely on nonprofit organizations to partner with schools and community services such as health clinics in order to provide services to at-risk students.
School & District Management
Poverty-related Challenges Sap Instructional Time in High Schools
Preliminary results of a survey of California high school teachers suggest that poverty-related challenges lead students at low-income schools to receive half an hour less instructional time per day than their peers in higher-income schools.
School & District Management
Studies Offer Practical Ways to Bring 'Growth Mindset' Research to Schools
At a packed session of the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, presenters offered simple and practical research-based methods of increasing student achievement by increasing motivation.
Assessment
Interim Assessments Yield Disappointing Results in Indiana Study
The results of a large, randomized controlled trial conducted in Indiana suggest that diagnostic or interim assessments have mixed and limited effects on final or summative exam results.
School Choice & Charters
Researchers Highlight Supply-Side Shortages for Voucher Programs
On the first day of sessions of the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, researchers highlighted the mismatch between the number of students who qualify for vouchers and the space in private schools that accept them.
Science
U.S. Students Score Above Average on First PISA Problem-Solving Exam
U.S. students scored above average on the first PISA assessment of creative problem solving but still lagged behind top-performing nations.
School & District Management
Janette Klingner, Scholar, Teacher, and Mentor, Dies at 60
Janette Klingner, who died March 20, was best known as a prominent scholar of special education and bilingual and bicultural education but she was also remembered as a mentor, teacher, and friend.
School Choice & Charters
New Research Partnership to Focus on New Orleans Schools
The Education Research Alliance, which is based at Tulane University, will partner with local organizations to study New Orleans's post-Katrina school reforms.
School & District Management
Pregaming AERA
Highlights of the upcoming Philadelphia conference, award winners and new leadership for the American Educational Research Association.
School & District Management
Devil Is in the Details When It Comes to Tracking, Detracking
A research brief highlights pros and cons of tracking and detracking 9th grade algebra classes in Chicago schools but the results are difficult to interpret without first understanding the different levels of support provided to those affected by both types of reforms.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Website and Review Identify Sex-Ed. Programs with Proven Track Records
A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website based in part on a forthcoming research review identifies sex-education programs that have been proven to curtail sexual activity, decrease teen-age pregnancy rates, foster the use of contraceptives and/or reduce rates of sexually transmitted infections.
School Choice & Charters
Latest CREDO Study Identifies Strengths in Los Angeles Charter Schools
The latest study from Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes suggests that Los Angeles charter schools outperform charter schools in other areas.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Another Study Fuels Movement to Push Back High School Start Times
Research from the University of Minnesota suggests adolescents may perform better and experience fewer problems when school starts at 8:30 a.m. or later so students can get more sleep.
Special Education
Schools Helping Struggling Students Also Can Boost High-Flyers, Study Says
Top students aren't necessarily hurt academically by a school's focus on low-performers, finds a new study at the Association for Education Finance and Policy conference.