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Praising Students in a Classroom Setting Has a Big Impact on Their Behavior

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d

Teachers who praise good behavior get good results, say the authors of a study of students’ on-task behavior and teachers’ habits of praising and reprimanding students. Researchers from Brigham Young University, the University of Kansas, and Vanderbilt University have found that if teachers focus on praising their students for appropriate classroom behavior rather than reprimanding them for being

Impact of Professional Development Incentives for Early Childhood Education Workforce

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d

Increased educational attainment among early childhood education (ECE) workforce members has been linked to improvements in classroom quality. Oregon ECE workforce members can pursue various professional development opportunities by participating in the state’s career lattice, a system that helps ECE workforce members determine goals and navigate pathways to higher education and training levels.

Effects of School Finance Reforms

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 5d

This study examined effects of post-1990 school finance reforms on students’ educational attainment and labor market outcomes. Lafortune et al. (2018) show that these reforms increased school spending and narrowed spending and achievement gaps between high- and low-income districts. The authors find that reforms increased high school completion and college-going, concentrated among Black students

Remote instruction had no effect on middle or high-school enrollment

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 12d

Before the 2020-21 school year, educators, policymakers, and parents confronted the stark and uncertain trade-offs implied by the health, educational, and economic consequences of offering instruction remotely, in person, or through a hybrid of the two. Most public schools in the U.S. chose remote-only instruction and enrollment fell dramatically (i.e., a loss of roughly 1.1 million K-12 students

Student–teacher race and ethnicity matches = fewer unexcused absences for Latinx students

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 12d

Teachers of color increase school success for students of color. Yet, little attention has been paid to whether school attendance behaviors also increase from same race and ethnicity matches. To address this, this study used administrative data provided by a California high school district for the school years 2014 to 2018 to explore student absenteeism at the date and class period levels. Using

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