School Reform Research
As educators brace for new reforms, what will these changes look like? How will assessments and curriculum differ from previous versions? How can all students get the best education possible?…
May 16, 2012 / No Comment / Read More In the first month of a new experiment inside a Dixwell school, the number of kids eating breakfast shot up by 75 percent—a swift change that officials hope will help…
April 18, 2012 / No Comment / Read More 
Thanks to the federal No Child Left Behind Act, K-12 educators are spending more time than ever before on testing their students' skills—but is all this testing doing any good?…
April 4, 2012 / No Comment / Read More Every day for the last four years, Leah Alcala has greeted her Berkeley, California, middle-school students with an exercise she calls "my favorite no," the Huffington Post reports.…
March 15, 2012 / No Comment / Read MoreEducation historically was considered a great equalizer in American society, capable of lifting less advantaged children and improving their chances for success as adults. But a body of recently published…
February 13, 2012 / Comments Off / Read MoreMartin Luther King Jr. wrote repeatedly on the subject of education and some of his thinking on the subject, while decades old, is still relevant, the Washington Post reports.…
January 16, 2012 / Comments Off / Read MoreIf 2010 was the year of the bombshell in research in the three “major areas” of market-based education reform–charter schools, performance pay, and value-added in evaluations–then 2011 was the year…
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A nationally watched experiment to improve nine struggling Houston Independent School District campuses improved students' math skills but had a minimal impact on reading achievement, a new study found.…
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Six school districts will receive funding from a $75 million initiative that will help them develop a much larger corps of effective school principals and determine whether this improves student…
August 30, 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More 
With a renewed focus on student achievement and school reform, many state education agencies (SEAs) find themselves under pressure to change operations and show positive results, and a new report…
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