THIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORT
Alternative Pathways to Careers and College
To address persistent high levels of youth unemployment and prepare students for good jobs in growth industries, a number of states have, in a few short years, initiated ambitious system-level reforms designed to enable many more young people to gain traction toward careers and postsecondary degrees.Eight states that are members of the Pathways to Prosperity Network have launched or dramatically e
Increasing Parent Engagement
If we had a road map to what parental involvement in schools should be, what would it look like? Would it be a straight line, or a complicated maze of cross streets going in every direction?University of Washington researchers studied The Road Map Project, a collaborative effort to dramatically improve student achievement in seven school districts in South Seattle and South King County. In their
JUL 01
Study finds online bullying creates off-line fear at school
Cyberbullying creates fear among students about being victimized at school, a recent study by Sam Houston State University found.While traditional bullying still creates the most fear among students, cyberbullying is a significant factor for fear of victimization at school among students who have experienced bullying or disorder At school, such as the presence of gangs. The fear from cyberbullying
JUN 27
Challenges in Evaluating Principal Effectiveness
The purpose of this article is to examine the assumptions underlying efforts to evaluate principal effectiveness in terms of student test scores, to review extant research on efforts to estimate principal effectiveness, and to discuss the appropriateness of including estimates of principal effectiveness in evaluations of principals. The authors review 10 different strategies for estimating princip
JUN 26
Study: Teachers More Likely to Use Ineffective Instruction When Teaching Students with Mathematics Difficulties
First-grade teachers in the United States may need to change their instructional practices if they are to raise the mathematics achievement of students with mathematics difficulties (MD), according to new research published online today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. VIDEO: Co-author Paul L. Morgan discusse
Principals Have More Authority Than They Think, New Study Says
Though there are real policy barriers that get in the way of innovation, principals have more authority than they think. So concludes a new study that examined the real and imagined barriers to school improvement in four Northeastern cities.The study, released Tuesday by the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington Bothell, found that two-thirds of the 128 barriers t
Review questions RAND report’s attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of a principal preparation program using value-added measures of students’ test scores
An evaluation of the New Leaders principal preparation program concludes that the program has a slightly positive effect on student test scores, though only for certain grade levels, subject areas, and districts. But a review published today cautions that the evaluation, even with such tepid conclusions, overreaches.Reviewer Edward J. Fuller of Penn State University notes that the evaluation, con
