EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORT
Challenging Common Core the Research: A Reanalysis of Text Complexity
This study offers an independent analysis of third- and sixth-grade reading textbooks used throughout the past century. Contrary to the authors of the English Language Arts component of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) – which builds a case for higher complexity in textbooks and reading materials for students by pointing to research showing a steady decline in the difficulty of student textb
The Effect of Postsecondary Coenrollment on College Success
This study finds that co-enrollment – defined as simultaneous enrollment at multiple postsecondary institutions during the same academic term – has a significant positive effect on educational attainment and postsecondary persistence for students beginning at community colleges and four-year institutions. Over the past two decades, postsecondary enrollment patterns have become more diversified, wi
Gender Gaps in College Enrollment: The Role of Gender Sorting Across Public High Schools
This study finds gender sorting across Florida public high schools contributes to 12 percent and 16 percent of females’ higher rate of college enrollment among black and Hispanic students, respectively. Girls and boys sort into different public schools at a level well beyond what would be expected if the sorting were random, and that the level of gender sorting is higher among black and Hispanic s
Education Research Report: Small High Schools and Student Achievement: Lottery-Based Evidence from New York City
Education Research Report: Small High Schools and Student Achievement: Lottery-Based Evidence from New York City: Small High Schools and Student Achievement: Lottery-Based Evidence from New York CitySmall Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society (Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture)One of the most wide-ranging reforms in public education in the last decade has been the reo
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Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTPreschoolers’ emotion knowledge indirectly contributes to early school successDifferences in emotion knowledge by children’s age, gender, and socioeconomic risk status, as well as associations of emotion knowledge with executive control, social competence, and early classroom adjustment, were investigated in this study. On emotion knowl