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A group of prominent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers has coined a new name for research that combines disciplines—"convergence," they call it—and called for policies to support these kinds of cross-cutting studies. The 12 scientists outlined their ideas...
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Spending money on tablet computers may seem an extravagance, but some educators say they are more than just a cool toy.
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This Technical Brief discusses basic concepts and definitions that establish a common set of terms related to the protection of personally identifiable information, especially in education records in the Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS).
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This report presents results of the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading and mathematics at grade 12. Results for students in the nation and, for the first time, in the 11 states that volunteered to participate in the 2009 state pilot program are reported as average scores and as percentages of students performing at or above three achievement levels: Basic, Proficient, and Advanced. Results for student demographic groups (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, and highest...
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A new NCSER report, Comparisons Across Time of the Outcomes of Youth With Disabilities up to 4 Years After High School, uses data from the NLTS and NLTS2 longitudinal datasets to provide comparison data on the post-high school outcomes across time (between 1990 and 2005) of youth with disabilities who had been out of high school up to 4 years on several key domains, including (1) postsecondary education enrollment and educational experiences; (2) employment status and characteristics of youth's...
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Researchers can take images of small cellular components in their natural environment while the cell remains intact.
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A new report on “next generation” assessment systems is stirring up some important questions about how assessment tools should be used to provide feedback to teachers and students. The report also provides a tightened definition of the educational buzzword that refers to that feedback loop: “formative assessment.” The report “Formative Assessment and Next-Generation Assessment Systems: Are We Losing an Opportunity?,” written by Margaret Heritage of the National Center for Research on...
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Early mathematics and the concept of “executive function” should command more attention as researchers explore how children learn, according to Deborah J. Stipek, dean of Stanford University’s education school. Her remarks were part of a forum last month to mark the 10th anniversary of the influential book, Neurons to Neighborhoods. The brain’s ability to develop “executive” skills like controlling impulses and focusing attention on specific tasks can be powerfully predictive of social and...
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This morning the Early Ed Initiative issued a brief that sheds light on what's missing as states build data systems to analyze children's progress over time. The brief, "Many Missing Pieces: The Difficult Task of Linking Early Childhood Data and School-Based Data Systems," urges states to take steps to gather and integrate information from the full array of early childhood programs and a fuller social services. In addition to releasing the brief, the Initiative hosted a panel discussion here in...
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Are charter schools underperforming or outperforming conventional public schools? Studies with various methods produce very different results.
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Two Republican senators have asked the U.S. Education Department to investigate the alleged leaking by department officials of proposed rules aimed at tightening regulation of the industry, Reuters reports.
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Calling the country "woefully inequipped" to teach students about science and math, Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., introduced a bill Sept. 29 that would create an office to oversee federal efforts in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, reports The Hill. As a former science teacher for more than 30 years, Honda said America is lagging behind other developed nations in technical fields and needs better coordination among stakeholders to improve outcomes.
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Barely into the new school year, President Barack Obama issued a tough-love message to students and teachers on Sept. 27: Their year in the classroom should be longer, and poorly performing teachers should get out. Separately, the president also announced a goal of recruiting 10,000 teachers over the next two years in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math.
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The federal Education Department is giving school districts and nonprofit organizations from across the country $442 million to create merit pay programs for teachers and principals, reports the Associated Press. The Teacher Incentive Fund is aimed at attracting and rewarding high-quality educators and encouraging them to work in the country's highest-need schools.
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Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old wunderkind behind Facebook, is making a move to become a player in philanthropy just before the opening of a film that portrays him as less than charitable.
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25 Nobel Laureates, 100 scientists and engineers, and 550 organizations are mobilized to put on the largest science and engineering party that the United States has ever seen.
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Christopher R. Rakes, Jeffrey C. Valentine, Maggie B. McGatha and Robert N. Ronau have written a very interesting article where they provide a systematic review of research regarding improvement strategies in algebra instruction. Their article is entitled Methods of Instructional Improvement in Algebra: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, and it was published in the latest issue of AERA journal Review of Educational Research. Algebra, they claim, is considered to be “the backbone of...
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Grants to 96 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will help improve and expand course offerings, student services, campus facilities, and faculty and staff development.
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by Richard Kassissieh A student gazes at a mystery solution. Its contents are unknown. The student reaches into her toolkit, a set of known solutions, and one by one, combines them with a small portion of the mystery solution. One test changes the color to bright yellow. Another produces a milky, solid substance. Gradually, the student pieces together the clues that allow her to identify the unknown solution. This qualitative analysis laboratory required the student to recall properties of...
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Most of you have probably seen the (not so) new information on how exercise helps kids learn. What would happen if you took some low-income schools, and without doing anything about pedagogy, did the following: -increased the amount of PE-reduced class size to 16-gave vitamins-provided nutritious food-fed them breakfast-fixed their vision-fixed their teeth-provided high quality mental health care (not just medication)-gave them food to take home if they were worried about eating and compared...
