EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORT
Young children with autism benefit regardless of high-quality treatment model
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who receive high-quality early intervention benefit developmentally regardless of the treatment model used—a surprising result that may have important implications for special-education programs and school classrooms across the country.“This is the first study designed to
Revenues and expenditures for public elementary and secondary education for School Year 2010-11
Current expenditures per pupil for public elementary and secondary education were $10,658 on a national level in FY 11. Current expenditures per pupil ranged from $6,326 in Utah to $20,793 in the District of Columbia. Expenditures per pupil were next highest in New York ($18,834); New Jersey ($16,855); Alaska ($16,663); Connecticut ($16,224); and Wyoming ($15,815). Adjusting for inflation, per pup
This Week's Education Research Report 7-13-13 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2
Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTYESTERDAYThe Effect of Grade Placement on English Language Learners’ Academic AchievementMany English Language Learners (ELLs) migrate to the United States at older ages and administrators must choose a grade in which to place these new entrants as soon as they register for school. This study estimates the effect of grade placement on t
Developing Socially Just Teachers
This interpretive study investigated how 12 graduates from a justice-oriented teacher preparation program described their teaching goals, practices, and influences on those practices after their 1st year of teaching in an urban school. Relationships among these teachers’ orientations toward socially just teaching, self-reported socially just teaching practices, and self-reported preprogram, progra
Early Spatial Reasoning Predicts Later Creativity and Innovation, Especially in STEM Fields
Exceptional spatial ability at age 13 predicts creative and scholarly achievements more than 30 years later, according to results from a Vanderbilt University longitudinal study, published today in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.The study, conducted by David Lubinski and colleagues at Vanderbilt University Peabody College of education and human develo
CREDO’s Significantly Insignificant Charter Schools Findings
Even Setting Aside Its Analytical Flaws, Study Merely Confirms that Charter Schools Perform on Par with Traditional Public SchoolsThe Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University announced in a June 25th press release that “charter school students now have greater learning gains in reading than their peers in traditional public schools.” This conclusion was repeated in