Many students who leave school do return, but schools face disincentives for welcoming them back, a new study suggests.
Updated: September 4, 2008
The Schott Foundation pledges to step up advocacy efforts to close the gap.
August 5, 2008
Hundreds of education researchers across the country are getting the gift of time to pursue research and hone methodological skills, through fellowships aimed at nurturing young talent in the field.
July 28, 2008
Advocates for researchers and statisticians are at odds with federal education officials and their advisers over the best way to shield the National Center for Education Statistics from political interference.
June 16, 2008
Educators, parents, and communities should make a more concerted effort to help rudderless youths find a clear direction and purpose as they enter adulthood, suggests a new book.
June 9, 2008
As Reading First nears the six-year mark, no clear empirical picture has emerged of how well the federal program is doing nationally to bring struggling readers to proficiency.
June 3, 2008
Yale University researchers are pilot-testing an assessment for identifying gifted and talented children that taps intellectual skills other than those captured by traditional intelligence tests.
May 20, 2008
Preliminary findings suggest that in three states where voters decided to replace bilingual education with structured English immersion may be producing less-than-stellar results.
Updated: May 30, 2008
The statistician who pioneered the use of “value added” research techniques is disputing a critique of his approach that was published recently in a prominent academic journal.
Updated: July 17, 2008
As value-added research designs gain in popularity and undergo increasing scrutiny, experts are beginning to wave cautionary flags about how best to make use of them in education.
Updated: May 6, 2008
The California Dropout Research Project was created in part to help determine how many students quit school before they graduate.
April 28, 2008
A project at Stanford University works with local communities to collect data from multiple child-serving agencies to inform policy and program decisions.
April 22, 2008
Grassroots organizing efforts are driving a boost in parent involvement, more-equitable distribution of funding, and better academic achievement, according to researchers from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
Updated: April 16, 2008
The Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education specializes in calculating and comparing the long- and short-term costs—and probable payoffs—of different educational strategies that promise to improve students’ lives.
April 8, 2008
The U.S. Department of Education is reviewing a less stringent set of rules for maintaining federal security and protecting the privacy of people who take part in federally subsidized research.
March 28, 2008
A new volume of research papers makes the case that innovations aimed at giving families more say in where their children go to school can be whatever their architects make of them.
Updated: July 17, 2008
New research suggests that having to hire substitutes affects more than just a district’s finances.
March 18, 2008
Training in the arts might contribute to improving the general thinking skills of children and adults, a study concludes.
March 7, 2008
Observers are trying to divine what the upcoming political shifts in Washington might mean for the U.S. Department of Education’s effort to make education an “evidence based” field.
March 4, 2008
Smaller classes may help some students, but not all, research shows.
Updated: March 6, 2008
According to a new survey, 77 percent of students and more than 80 percent of teachers and parents say homework is important or very important.
February 15, 2008
Experts are beginning to contend that the case is growing stronger for physical activity's link to improved brain function.
February 12, 2008
An ambitious project run by two universities is the largest, most comprehensive and representative study to date of children’s development in rural America.
February 5, 2008
In an era when the U.S. Supreme Court is putting sharp limits on race-conscious student-assignment policies, the guidance from an upcoming book is bound to draw detractors.
January 29, 2008
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching will soon have a new president with a strong national reputation as a precollegiate education researcher.
January 18, 2008
Research from a recent wave of K-8 conversions suggests that determining what kind of grade configurations are best for students is still a complicated and unsettled matter.
January 15, 2008
Few studies have examined whether culture-based instruction affects the achievement of language-minority students, despite its popularity with many educators.
January 8, 2008
A forthcoming research review analyzes school-based programs designed to foster children’s social and emotional skills.
December 18, 2007
While it may sound like a given that added learning time can translate to better test scores, research suggests that whether it does remains an open question.
December 11, 2007
Implicit in some of the coverage was the hopeful idea that many children eventually grow out of the disorder. But that’s not exactly true.
December 3, 2007
Students who regularly attend top-notch after-school programs end up academically far ahead of peers who spend more out-of-school time in unsupervised activities, a study found.
November 27, 2007
The Brookings Institution has unveiled a volume of studies on the potential effects of the federal law’s various provisions on this vulnerable population of students.
November 8, 2007
Students from low-income households could constitute more than half of K-12 enrollment in public schools nationally within 10 years, a report contends.
November 2, 2007
At schools that are part of the New Century High Schools initiative, 78 percent of students graduate in four years, compared with 58 percent at the city's other high schools.
October 26, 2007
Researchers are developing tools and techniques to improve the academic achievement of students who are most likely to suffer from negative stereotypes in the classroom.
October 23, 2007
