New Report on a Professional Development Program for Implementing Inquiry-Based Science Curriculaby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) recently reviewed the research on an intervention designed to improve student outcomes in science. Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER) is a program that aims to build the capacity of schools and districts to implement an inquiry-based approach to science instruction to improve student achievement. The WWC review of LASER focused on stu
Mentoring Practices and Retention across New Teachersby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d
High teacher turnover is detrimental for student achievement, particularly in schools with high proportions of students from low-income households and students of color. A large urban school district wanted to understand how its first-year teacher mentoring program could better support its goals of increasing teacher retention rates and maintaining a diverse workforce. This study by REL Northeast
Student Financing of Postsecondary Education, With National and State Estimatesby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d
In 2017–18, 70 percent of all undergraduates received some type of financial aid (excluding private loans), and the average amount of aid received was $13,000. Among states with samples that support reporting, undergraduates in Hawaii had the lowest rate of financial aid receipt (52 percent), and undergraduates in North Carolina (87 percent) and Louisiana (86 percent) had the highest rates of fin
Marching band kids at risk from heat illnessby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d
It’s not just student-athletes who need guidelines for heat protection during practice T his time of year, you hear a lot about heat-related illnesses in athletes. Thousands of student-athletes are sidelined by heat illnesses each year, and some don’t recover. But while guidelines exist to help coaches and trainers keep their students safe, there’s another group on the field that’s still at risk:
Using Enhanced Coaching to Improve PreK–2 Reading Achievementby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d
Chicago Public Schools is working to improve early literacy outcomes through a multiyear professional development initiative for preK–2 teachers. This P–2 Balanced Literacy Initiative aims to improve literacy instruction by training teachers to balance systematic foundational skills instruction with reading and writing instruction involving rich, complex texts. The district designated 26 of the 1
One in five tweens has been exposed to cyberbullying as a witness, a target, or an aggressor.by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d
The goal of this study was to provide key prevalence rates for experiences with cyberbullying among tweens (children between the ages of 9 and 12 years old). as well as exploring the extent to which tweens engaged in helping behaviors when they observed cyberbullying. American tweens ( n = 1034; mean age = 10.52, SD = 1.12) completed an online survey in which they reported on their experience wit
Arts Credits Earned in High School and Postsecondary Enrollmentby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d
More students who earned greater high school arts credit earning enrolled in postsecondary education than students who earned fewer high school arts credits. This Data Point, Arts credits earned in high school and postsecondary enrollment: Differences by background characteristi cs , uses data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), a national study of more than 23,000 ninth-gr
New Data on Enrollment, Finance, Employees, and Academic Librariesby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d
The percent of revenues that postsecondary institutions received from tuition and fees in 2020-21 varied greatly depending on the type of institution. According to new data released today by the National Center for Education Statistics, public 4-year institutions and administrative offices received about 20 percent of their revenues from tuition and fees in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, compared with ju
Attendance Supports to Reduce Chronic Absenteeismby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d
In 2018, Rhode Island’s Providence Public School District (PPSD) implemented a student attendance policy that requires schools to track and address chronic absenteeism. Schools are encouraged to implement attendance supports such as attendance teams, leveraged partnerships, parent engagement specialists, nudge letters, phone calls, text messaging, and mentorship programs. A new report from REL No
Creating a discipline reform plan was not associated with a statistically significant changeby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 4d
I n 2017 the Minnesota Department of Human Rights identified 43 local education agencies in the state as being in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act for their use of exclusionary discipline practices (suspensions, exclusions, and expulsions) at higher rates for American Indian students, Black students, and students in special education, as well as for their overall use of discipline prac
Motivation is key for teachers to overcome racial bias in classroomby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 8d
New research focused on college students training to become K-12 teachers emphasizes the need to recruit and enroll more diverse students in teacher education programs. The study about culturally inclusive teaching published in the journal Learning and Instruction shows the motivation to appear unprejudiced alone does not result in a positive and meaningful change in teachers’ classroom-related b
Students in grades 3 to 7 who received eyeglasses through a school-based vision program achieved better reading scoresby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 8d
IMAGE: SCHOOL CHILDREN TRYING ON NEW EYEGLASSES THEY RECEIVED THROUGH THE VISION FOR BALTIMORE PROGRAM. view more CREDIT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Students who received
