Fewer students turn pages of yearbooks in digital age
Kristen Thompson grinned when chatting about how her parents sometimes reminisce about their school days, flipping through the pages of the yearbook.
View ArticleTeacher-designed performance pay programs offer smaller incentives to more...
Performance pay programs designed by teachers, for teachers, tend to offer small incentives to a large number of teachers, new research indicates.
View ArticleLarge national study strongly links educational leadership to student...
A new study released today, the largest of its kind, offers important new evidence affirming the strong connection between what school leaders do and student achievement -- and sheds new light on what...
View ArticleLA students more true to their charter schools than teachers
Teachers in Los Angeles Unified School Districts charter schools are up to three times more likely to leave their school at years end compared with their peers in other LAUSD schools, according to a...
View ArticleLower turnover rates, higher pay for teachers who share race with principal,...
With ever-declining budgets, education administrators across the nation have been struggling for years with an increasing teacher turnover rate. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have...
View ArticleResearchers find that many minority teachers sign on but do not stay
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research from the University of Pennsylvania has found that success in recruiting minority teachers for low-income schools is being undone by continuing problems with teacher retention.
View ArticleGame on: Sports Analytics Conference produces a growing avalanche of...
Imagine if your hobby became your profession — or, indeed, if it started a whole new profession.
View ArticleInnovative approach results in improved writing skills at primary school
Primary school writing classes place insufficient emphasis on pupils' writing processes and on the communicative function of texts. Teachers tend to focus mainly on the superficial features of a text,...
View ArticleStudy finds troubling patterns of teacher assignments within schools
Even within the same school, lower-achieving students often are taught by less-experienced teachers, as well as by teachers who received their degrees from less-competitive colleges, according to a new...
View ArticleStudy shows Jim Crow-era segregation persists in Texas schools
A first-of-its-kind study from researchers in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin shows that, in addition to being isolated by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, English...
View ArticleClosing the gap: How one school district went about fixing standardized...
A unique, long-term partnership between a university and an underserved suburban school district in Missouri is showing eye-popping, unprecedented success in elementary and middle school science test...
View ArticlePhysics: A fundamental force for future security
What is matter? What is energy? What holds matter together? How do the various constituents of the universe interact at the most basic level? Where does the Earth sit in relation to the rest of the...
View ArticleFirst grade reading suffers in segregated schools
A groundbreaking study from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) has found that African-American students in first grade experience smaller gains in reading when they attend...
View ArticleHigh-stakes testing, lack of voice driving teachers out
Contrary to popular opinion, unruly students are not driving out teachers in droves from America's urban school districts. Instead, teachers are quitting due to frustration with standardized testing,...
View ArticleWhat's next for the smartphone in a rapidly changing market?
It should be no surprise to anyone that many smartphones may have been designed to last about 24 months – the length of a typical contract with a network service provider. After all, it is a...
View ArticleChildcare workers' pay remains stagnant, study shows
In a couple of weeks, U.S. workers will receive their W-2 statements of earnings for 2014. For 2 million teachers in early child care, preschool and kindergarten in the United States, it will be a bit...
View ArticleCollege readiness declines when school's focus is improving test scores,...
Education reform policies that penalize struggling schools for poor standardized test scores may hinder—not improve—students' college readiness, if a school's instructional focus becomes improving its...
View ArticleSomething is rotten in the state of US education
A report released last year estimates that nearly half of the nation's new teachers quit within five years, a rate of attrition that costs the United States over US$2 billion annually.
View ArticleStudy in birds suggests method of learning affects how the brain adds neurons
Teaching may be the world’s most noble profession. But new research from Fernando Nottebohm’s Rockefeller University laboratory shows that, in birds, the presence of a teacher may actually limit mental...
View ArticleLSU professor dissects patterns of violence in rural communities
[B]Findings suggest that civic participation is key to cutting rates of violent crime[/B] Matthew Lee, professor of sociology at LSU, has taken an intense look at the phenomenon of violence in rural...
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