Teacher Attrition and Mobility: Results From the 2012–13 Teacher Follow-up Survey
Of the 3,377,900 public school teachers who were teaching during the 2011–12 school year, 84 percent remained at the same school (“stayers”), 8 percent moved to a different school (“movers”), and 8 percent left the profession (“leavers”) during the following year. About 30 percent of public school teacher movers and 10 percent of public school teacher leavers left their 2011–12 positions involunta
Increasing course structure works disproportionately well for black students—halving the black–white achievement gap—and first-generation students
At the college level, the effectiveness of active-learning interventions is typically measured at the broadest scales: the achievement or retention of all students in a course. Coarse-grained measures like these cannot inform instructors about an intervention's relative effectiveness for the different student populations in their classrooms or about the proximate factors responsible for the observ
Assessing children in kindergarten
In contemporary kindergarten classrooms, children’s literacy abilities are often assessed by tests used to determine a child’s ‘readiness’ for school. Readiness often means letter identification, phonemic awareness, letter-writing, and other functions related to language mechanics. A new paper (http://ecl.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/09/03/1468798414548778.full.pdf+html) investigates the assess
This Week's Education Research Report 8-30-14 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2
Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTSocial class makes a difference in how children tackle classroom problemsAn Indiana University study has found that social class can account for differences in how parents coach their children to manage classroom challenges. Such differences can affect a child's education by reproducing inequalities in the classroom."Parents have d
