Full Report Related article The School Health Profiles (Profiles) is a system of surveys assessing school health policies and practices in states, large urban school districts, and territories. Profiles surveys are conducted biennially by education and health agencies among middle and high school principals and lead health education teachers. Profiles monitors the current status of School health
School districts are paying more attention to evidence of effectiveness when deciding on strategies to improve low-performing schools, as required by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). But several districts also report difficulties in accessing and understanding academic research or finding evidence-based strategies suited to their unique needs, according to a new report by the Center on Educ
A new IZA World of Labor report finds teacher effectiveness to have a strong effect on pupils attainment. It goes on to look at ways to increase it including reforming hiring practices, and reforming teacher training and development. Teacher effectiveness is the most important component of the education process within schools for pupil attainment. According to economist Simon Burgess of the Unive
For many young college students, the first years are a time of wonder and excitement and early steps toward long-term goals. These years, for some students, are equally fraught with anxiety, as the realities of rigorous curricula set in alongside feelings of unpreparedness and impostor syndrome. In the STEM fields, this results in roughly 50% of first-year majors leaving their original course of
As 2019 draws to a close, state-level momentum for early learning shows few signs of slowing down. Many governors followed up on campaign promises by collectively proposing nearly $3 billion in new funding in their 2019 budgets to improve infant well-being and address child care’s high costs, low wages, and lack of quality options. In response, many states used 2019 legislative sessions and budge
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students who began kindergarten as English Learners (ELs), on average, progressed to eighth grade with academic achievement similar to or better than their peers who began kindergarten proficient in English, finds a new study released today by the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. Nearly 80 percent of CPS English Learners achieved English proficienc
Complete report Why GAO ( United States Government Accountability Office ) Did This Study Almost 7 million children aged 3 to 21 received special education services under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)in school year 2016-17. IDEA contains options parents and school districts may use to address disputes that arise related to the education of a student with a disab
Complete report The state of the teaching profession is an urgent topic for policymakers and the public, especially against the backdrop of increased teacher strikes and walkouts across the country in the past two years. 1 Teacher salaries are far too low, which has led many teachers to work second jobs or qualify for public assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Progra
This web report provides key comparative information about 15-year-old students in the United States and 77 other education systems that participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018. PISA is sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and focuses on students’ ability to apply the knowledge and skills they have learned, both in and
Complete report Researchers at the Institute of Education at University College London have conducted a study that looks at whether there are any educational advantages to attending private schools in the upper secondary years (Years 12 and 13/Grades 11 and 12). Published in the Oxford Review of Education, the study used data from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies' Next Steps cohort study and l
Complete report The linguistic comprehension programs included in this review display a small positive immediate effect on generalized outcomes of linguistic comprehension. The effect of the programs on generalized measures of reading comprehension is negligible. Few studies report follow‐up assessment of their participants. 1.2 What is this review about? Children who begin school with proficient
Complete report The kindergarten program, Tools of the Mind ( Tools ), has been shown to improve executive functions (as assessed by laboratory measures) and academic performance. The objective here was to see if Tools can improve executive functions in the real world (in the classroom), academic outcomes not previously investigated, reduce bullying and peer ostracism, and increase teachers’ and
Children with slight hearing loss may do a little less well in school and may be a bit more likely to develop behavior problems, a new study suggests. SOURCE: bit.ly/34E1fv5 and bit.ly/34E6ieZ JAMA Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, online November 27, 2019. Hearing impairment that doctors and parents may have considered slight or mild “may actually be associated with both school performance a
North Carolina students who were rezoned to schools with stricter discipline were 17 percent more likely to be arrested as adults and 20 percent more likely to be incarcerated. Early educational experiences can affect adult criminality, but little is known about the channels through which these effects occur. In The School to Prison Pipeline: Long-Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) released a new report today summarizing the landscape of current efforts by states to bring high-quality educational content about Native peoples and communities into all kindergarten to 12th grade (K-12) classrooms across the United States. The report was completed in partnership with IllumiNative, the National Indian Education Association (NIEA),
This paper studies within-family spillovers in college enrollment to show college-going behavior is transmissible between peers. Older siblings’ admissibility substantially increases their own four-year college enrollment rate and quality of college attended. Their improved college choices in turn raise younger siblings’ college enrollment rate and quality of college chosen, particularly for fami
This paper describes the effects of two variants of a virtual college-counseling intervention designed to reduce informational and social support barriers to college application and enrollment among socioeconomically disadvantaged
