Arts activities reduce antisocial behavior among teenagersby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d
Teenagers who take part in arts and cultural activities, such as dance, drama, reading and going to concerts, are less likely to engage in antisocial behaviour up to two years later. Teenagers who take part in arts and cultural activities, such as dance, drama, reading and going to concerts, are less likely to engage in antisocial and criminalised behaviour up to two years later, according to a n
Empathy softens teachers' biases, reduces racial gap in student suspensionsby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d
Large-scale intervention is found to combat inequities in school discipline Interventions that seek to evoke empathy in teachers can sideline biases and narrow the racial gap in suspensions of middle school students, suggests new research from the University of California, Berkeley. In one of the most rigorous efforts to date to combat race-based inequity in school suspensions, UC Berkeley social
Standardizing Applicant High School and Neighborhood Information Helps to Diversify Selective Collegesby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d
Many selective colleges consider the backgrounds of applicants to improve equity in admissions. However, this information is usually not available for all applicants. This study examines whether the chances of admission and enrollment changed after 43 colleges gained access to a new tool that standardizes information on educational disadvantage for all applicants. Applicants from the most challen
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Studyby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d
NCES has added data from the 2019 administration of the (TIMSS) to the International Data Explorer (IDE). The IDE is an online, interactive tool that allows users to explore international study data and create customized tables, charts, maps, and analyses. TIMSS is an international comparative study that measures trends in fourth- and eighth-grade mathematics and science achievement every 4 year
National poll: More than 1 in 4 parents say their adolescent has seen a mental health specialistby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d
Just 4 in 10 parents say their child’s provider asks about mental health concerns at all check-ups and nearly half who seek mental health services for their adolescent describe difficulties getting care. IMAGE: ALMOST ALL PARENTS FELT SOMEWHAT OR VERY CONFIDENT THEY WOULD RECOGNIZE A POSSIBLE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE IN THEIR ADOLESCENT. view more CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH C.S. MOTT CHILDR
Pretrial juvenile detention leads to a 31% decline in the likelihood of graduating high schoolby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 5d
Roughly one in four juveniles arrested in the U.S. spend time in a detention center prior to their court date. To study the consequences of this practice for youth, this paper links the universe of individual public school records in Michigan to juvenile and adult criminal justice records. Using a combination of exact matching and inverse probability weighting, the authors estimate that juvenile
The Higher Education-Innovation Gapby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 5d
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, the authors construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus’s relative proximity to old and new knowledge. They show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge. More selective and better fun
Students exposed to additional funding during elementary school were substantially less likely to be arrested in adulthoodby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 5d
This paper asks whether improving the quality of public schools can be an effective long-run crime-prevention strategy in the U.S. Specifically, the paper examines the effect of school quality improvements early in children's lives on the likelihood that they are arrested as adults. The first research design exploits variation in operating expenditures due to Michigan's 1994 school finance reform
Teachers, other school personnel, experience violence, threats, harassment during pandemicby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 8d
Almost half of teachers express desire to quit or transfer, survey says While much of the focus on education during the pandemic has involved the effects on children in schools, it is also having a negative impact on teachers, administrators, social workers, psychologists and school staff. Approximately one-third of teachers report that they experienced at least one incident of verbal harassment
High school graduates’ academic performance and coursetaking patternsby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 9d
A new NCES report, the 2019 NAEP High School Transcript Study (HSTS) Results, describes the coursetaking patterns and academic performance of graduates from a national sample of U.S. public and private schools who also took the 2019 NAEP twelfth-grade mathematics and science assessments. This report uses data from the 1990, 2000, 2009, and 2019 NAEP HSTS for coursetaking results and from 2005, 20
