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Saturday, September 4, 2021

THIS WEEK Education Research Report

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THIS WEEK 
Education Research Report




Using Promotion Power to Identify High School Effectiveness
In this study REL Mid-Atlantic examined the promotion power of public high schools in the District of Columbia on college- and career-ready SAT scores, high school graduation, and college enrollment. Promotion power is a measure of school effectiveness that tries to create a level playing field for comparing schools serving different student populations. It separates a school’s contributions to s
Environmental Supports for Gifted Students From Low-Income Households = Academic Achievement
Previous studies on poverty within the gifted population have shown that economically vulnerable gifted students are underrepresented in gifted programs. Moreover, the majority of published studies on this topic were conducted in Western cultures. This study explored the psychological, cognitive, academic, social, and environmental supports for economically vulnerable students in the Arab culture
Praising Students in a Classroom Setting Has a Big Impact on Their Behavior
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
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
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
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

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