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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research, teaching research, and leadership research.
Federal
New Members, Leader for National Board for Education Sciences
There may at last be some stability in sight for the advisory board for the Institute of Education Sciences, the U.S. Education Department's research agency.
School & District Management
Brain Study Points to Potential Treatments for Math Anxiety
Which comes first: the struggle to do math, or the fear of it? A new study suggests that the way one deals with that first rush of anxiety can be critical to actual math performance.
School & District Management
Study: Adolescents Can See Dramatic IQ Changes
A new brain-imaging study finds that during adolescence, a child can gain or lose as many as 20 points in IQ.
Student Achievement
Will Interim Testing Be More Useful for Accountability, Instruction?
Will 'interim' accountability testing lead to better classroom instruction? A new study suggests district implementation will be key.
Teaching
Experts: Recovery Law Leading to More Data Reporting
Education and other programs are generating and reporting unprecedented amounts of data, but federal agencies are only just beginning to build the processes needed to ensure those data are timely and accurate enough to use for measuring program performance, experts say.
Teaching
What Works Clearinghouse Gets a Facelift, Joins Facebook
The What Works Clearinghouse is launching a new Web site and Facebook page, to help practitioners access its research.
School & District Management
Obama to Nominate New Members for Education Research Advisory Board
President Obama plans to nominate two board members for the National Board for Education Sciences, but the advisory group for the Education Department's research arm will still be down five members at its meeting next week.
Teaching
Study Finds Successful Extended-Time Schools Strategize Learning
Schools that successfully extend learning time to improve student achievement change their practice in eight critical ways, according to a new study by the National Center on Time and Learning.
Federal
Study: Suburban Districts Falter in Global Competitiveness
A new report from the George W. Bush Institute finds suburban school districts are "mediocre" in comparison to international peers.
School & District Management
RAND Education Leader Seeks Better Implementation Research
V. Darleen Opfer is settling in as head of RAND Corp.'s education division, and pushing to make sure the education research giant's studies actually make a difference in the field.
School & District Management
Testing Expert Earns Top National Honor for Young Scientist
Arizona State University testing researcher Roy Levy has been named the only education winner of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest federal honor for young scientists.
School & District Management
ERS Partners to Sustain Research After Closure
The nearly 40-year-old Educational Research Service will wind down operations in November, but two research groups—Hanover Research and Editorial Projects in Education, which publishes Education Week— will be picking up several of its longtime projects.
Student Achievement
Researchers Blast 'Pseudoscience' of Single-Sex Education
A team of neuroscience and child development experts argue in a new Science article that there is "no empirical evidence" that segregating students by sex improves education.
School & District Management
Study: Children of Unauthorized Immigrants Face Education, Social Problems
Many immigrants come to the United States seeking a better life for their children, but a new report by the Harvard Educational Review finds those who come to the country illegally face worse social and academic development as they grow.