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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research, teaching research, and leadership research.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
Rebecca Maynard to Leave NCEE
Rebecca Maynard is stepping down as commissioner of the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance to return to the University of Pennsylvania, leaving the Education Department's research agency down two top officials.
School & District Management
Could Autism Be an Evolutionary Response?
Futurist Juan Enriquez's theory on continuing human evolution has sparked debate over the causes and potential of autism, attention and perception disorders.
Education
CDC Survey Finds 1 in 3 Students Texts While Driving
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that young people do appear to have improved their behavior in some ways, however, despite the frequency of texting while driving. Car accidents are the cause of more than 1 in 3 teen deaths in the United States each year.
School & District Management
Further Reading on Mind, Brain, and Education
For those interested in learning more about mind, brain, and education, the following books, journals and Web sites may be helpful.
Teaching
Brain Education Spurs Teachers' Research
Mind, brain, and education science is helping teachers conduct their own research on how their students think and how they can better engage them in learning.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Are You Enabling 'Academic Entitlement' in Students?
Research suggests how teachers respond to student requests for help can improve or exacerbate their sense of "academic entitlement."
School & District Management
Understand Uncertainty in Program Effects
An Australian researcher argues that showing the range of effects of a particular intervention can make it easier for educators and others to understand the significance of a study.
School & District Management
Report Shows Civic Disparities by Education, Income Levels
A new report reveals sharp disparities in civic participation based on educational attainment, family income, and age.
School & District Management
OMB Pushes for More Rigorous Program Evaluations
An Office of Management and Budget memo to Education Secretary Arne Duncan and other agency leaders calls for all fiscal 2014 budget proposals to include a separate section detailing the departments' "most innovative uses of evidence and evaluation."
Education
Study Calls for Student Motivation in Improvement Planning
It seems common sense that if student achievement is the measure of school improvement, the students themselves need to be engaged, yet it seems student motivation isn't often directly addressed in programs to improve student scores.
Education
Study: One in 10 Students Misses a Month of School
While the Education Department and policymakers work to improve a list of "dropout factory" schools, a new study suggests there may be an equally problematic list of "drop-in" factories, schools in which a significant percentage of students attend sporadically.
School & District Management
Why Are There Errors in National Schools Data?
Problems with data used by a national high school ranking report highlights the importance of managing and checking education information.
Education
Sleep Timing a Weighty Problem for Students
A new study from the University of Munich suggests that often-sharp contrast between weekday and weekend sleep habits may contribute to child obesity.
School & District Management
Study: Feminizing STEM Role Models Turns Off Girls
The push to promote more "feminine" role models for science, technology, engineering and math fields may backfire with middle school girls, according to a new study.