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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research, teaching research, and leadership research.
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Neuroscience Ed. Winner Finds Cognitive Training Helps Parents, Students
Helen Neville has won the 2011Transforming Education Through Neuroscience award for studies suggesting parent training can compound cognitive improvements for children receiving attention interventions.
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Study: Middle-Class Students Are Better at Asking for Academic Help
A new study of working- and middle-class students suggests their ability to seek academic help from adults can affect their performance and how teachers view them.
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Study: Adolescent Suicide Risk Can Start in Middle School
A new study finds depressed students' risk of suicide starts as early as elementary and middle school.
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State Boards of Education Organization Names Knowledge Alliance's Jim Kohlmoos Executive Director
Jim Kohlmoos, president and CEO of the Knowledge Alliance and a former member of Clinton's Education Department, was named the new executive director of the National Association of State Boards of Education. His tenure will begin on February 2, 2012.
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UPDATE: House Hearing Probes Education Research
Politics K-12 sums up today's House hearing on education research
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Initial Thoughts from the First House Education Research Hearing
The House Education and Workforce Committee wraps up its first hearing on reauthorizing federal education research law.
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UPDATED: House to Discuss Education Research Reauthorization
A House education subcommittee will hold its first hearing on reauthorizing federal education research law on Wednesday.
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Students Conduct Research In Bug-Based Neuroscience
A school-based neuroscience program teaches students through cyborg bugs.
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New Census Measure Finds Fed Programs Lower Child Poverty
The U.S. Census Bureau is releasing a new supplementary poverty measure that provides a more comprehensive picture of American families.
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UPDATE: NewSchools Responds on Charter Networks Study
A new charter school study highlights some interesting ways research on controversial issues gets channeled in the blogo-news world.
School Choice & Charters
Study Finds Achievement Mixed at Charters Run by Networks
The study involved 40 charter management organizations with 292 schools in 14 states, all of which were nonprofits that control at least four schools and had at least four schools open in the fall of 2007.
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Ladson-Billings: 'Intricately Linked' Race Issues Affect Research
Racial categories make it easier for education researchers to compare students and probe achievement gaps, but they can also create inappropriate narratives about students' potential, argued Gloria Ladson-Billings in last night's 8th annual Brown lecture in education research.
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Principals, What Would You Do With More Time in a Day?
A new study suggests principals who learn time scheduling and management delegation can gain the equivalent of an extra day each week for instructional leadership.
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Update: Support Builds for ARPA-Ed in ESEA Reauthorization
Outside support appears to be building for an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Education, or ARPA-Ed, modeled on a cutting-edge research group within the U.S. Department of Defense known as DARPA.