THIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORT
Could text language and autocorrect technologies have an effect on writing skills?
English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan sees the effects of students' growing up in an age when communication is done in an abbreviated text language and where they depend on autocorrect to automatically solve the "i before e" literary dilemma."In my classroom, I can already see the negative effects," said the English Department chair at Clay-Chalkville High School and a particip
MAY 22
Why student dropout: Overwhelmed by a number of factors
“Don’t Call Them Dropouts,” the largest nationwide study of its kind to date, found students who leave high school without graduating do so not out of boredom or lack of motivation, but because they are overwhelmed by the effects of toxic living conditions on their daily lives, including homelessness, violent surroundings, abuse or neglect, catastrophic family health events, and the absence of car
MAY 21
Program to reduce behavior problems boosts math, reading
A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low-income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.Their findings, which appear in the Journal of Educational Psychology, point to the value of we
School-Based Interventions Could Benefit Children from Military Families
Children with deployed parents at risk for emotional, behavioral and relationship struggles Nearly 2 million children in the United States have experienced a parent’s military deployment. Previous research has shown that these children may be at increased risk for emotional, behavioral and relationship difficulties, yet little is known about how best to address military children’s specialized nee
Low IQ students learn to read at 1st-grade level after persistent, intensive instruction
Study offers hope for all struggling readers after large sample of special education students and students with low IQ significantly improved their reading ability over several academic yearsThe findings of a pioneering four-year educational study offer hope for thousands of children identified with intellectual disability or low IQ who have very little, if any, reading ability.The study by resear
High School Grade Point Average is Tied to Earnings in Adulthood
A team of researchers led by Michael T. French, professor of health economics at the University of Miami (UM), finds that high school grade point average (GPA) is a strong predictor of future earnings. The findings, published recently in the Eastern Economic Journal, show that a one-point increase in high school GPA raises annual earnings in adulthood by around 12 percent for men and 14 percent f
MAY 20
School SegregationIncreasing 60 Years After Brown
Marking the 60th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v Board of Education, the UCLA’s Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles (CRP) assessed the nation's progress in addressing school segregation in it’s new report, Brown at 60: Great Progress, a Long Retreat and an Uncertain Future, and found that the vast transformation of the nation’s school population since th
Retirement incentive programs for veteran teachers may boost student achievement
In 2010, more than one-third of teachers were over the age of 50, and in the coming decade, we can expect a large number of teachers to be leaving teaching. The aging of the nation’s teacher workforce underscores the importance of studying the impact of early retirement programs on student learning.In a new Education Next study, "Early Retirement Payoff: Incentive programs for veteran teacher
Review ofcharter funding report uncovers extensive misunderstandings and mistakes
A recent report called Charter Funding: Inequity Expands claimed to have documented large and growing inequities between school district and charter school revenues. But the report suffers from severe shortcomings that result in major misrepresentations of the condition of charter as well as district school finances, a new review released today finds.The review was conducted for the Think Twice t
MAY 16
How Asian American 'tiger mothers' motivate their children
An article titled "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," published in The Wall Street Journal in 2011, has continued to provoke a cultural debate among parents after self-proclaimed 'tiger mother' Amy Chua asserted that Asian American parenting methods produce more successful children. Researchers at Stanford University delved deeper into Chua's 'tiger mother' approach, and their research s
Death by a Thousand Cuts: Racism, School Closures, and Public School Sabotage
Journey for Justice has just issued a new report Death by a Thousand Cuts: Racism, School Closures, and Public School Sabotage. It’s well researched and heavily footnoted, but more than that, it is a powerful, moving piece of social and political commentary: The move toward the expansion of charter schools, and away from public schools, in communities of color has been staggeringly swift, and it