Research from the American Institutes of Research and the HOPE Foundation suggest schools can adapt to changing student demographics by rapidly identifying and expanding successes in individual schools and classrooms. Read Full Post >
A new collection from civil rights attorney William L. Taylor at George Washington University highlights the connection between education research and education advocacy. Read Full Post >
The Education Department's research agency and national research organizations will hold workshops to help researchers boost their study rigor then they don't have the money or capacity for a fully randomized experiment. Read Full Post >
Jack Buckley, the new commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics is determined to keep state longitudinal data systems evolving amid state budget and staff constraints, he told participants at the American Educational Research Association convention in New Orleans. Read Full Post >
The American Educational Research Association is calling for Congress to decouple education statistics and education research in the next reauthorization of the Institute of Education Sciences. Read Full Post >
Students who aren't proficient in reading by grade 3 are four times less likely to graduate than proficient readers, and the gap is even more severe for students in poverty, according to a study to be released this morning at the American Educational Research Association conference. Read Full Post >
In a continuing push to clarify student data privacy rules for researchers and education officials alike, the Education Department today named its first chief privacy officer and proposed several changes to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Read Full Post >
The American Educational Research Association is launching a mobile app in connection with its annual research conference. Read Full Post >
With no certainty yet on funding or contracts for the nation's regional educational labs, the Institute of Education Sciences is busy tying up as many loose ends as possible. Read Full Post >
The National Board for Education Sciences is looking for ways to design future research in ways that will make it easier to glean useful information from well-designed studies that showed no or negative effects. Read Full Post >
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