Ed News for K12 Researchers: Math teachers make a difference, i3 grants were no BFD, homework gap, moving to middle school for SWDs, impact of music on academics flat? : https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
Using education data to give high schools feedback on college performance down to course grades, identifying teachers whose students excel at the university, to improve education decisions, to accept students to college before they apply and more. https://decisioncenter.asu.edu/
Why standards based grading is hard to implement https://www.the74million.org/article/why-is-a-grading-system-touted-as-more-accurate-equitable-so-hard-to-implement/
How has standards based reform turned out? https://www.the74million.org/article/40-years-after-a-nation-at-risk-how-has-standards-based-school-reform-succeeded-and-failed/
How math teachers make a difference https://www.rand.org/pubs/articles/2024/math-teachers-efforts-can-really-add-up.html?utm_campaign=&utm_content=1710859786&utm_medium=rand_social&utm_source=twitter
How much does holding back a struggling reader cost your district https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/theres-a-cost-to-holding-back-struggling-readers-see-how-much/2024/03
CA students report on their transition to college https://edpolicyinca.org/publications/transition-college
The i3 innovation grants were a failure 74% of the time https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-only-a-quarter-of-federally-funded-education-innovations-benefited-students-report-says/
Retention and HS outcomes in NYC
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19345747.2023.2287607?mi=d4vqjn
A rapid response eval in Nashville https://k12mnps-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/amloehr_mnps_org/ERT_aplJNCFBimodhobs6VcBo5FYYCYS68BvafHAydTuPw?rtime=k4pttoVL3Eg
The benefit of having a teacher two years in a row
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19345747.2024.2322673?mi=d4vqjn
CTE in NYC High Schools https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/research-alliance/research/career-and-technical-education-comprehensive-high-schools
The homework gap https://www.educationnext.org/doing-educational-equity-right-the-homework-gap/
Where has all the increased money gone? Student teacher rations over the last 70 years (26.9 to 14.7) https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d22/tables/dt22_208.20.asp
The academic effects of moving middle school for SWDs
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/01623737241229990
Music helps other academic areas -- correlation does not equal causation? nature vs. nurture?
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-032323-051354
How districts with high absenteeism approached attendance https://edworkingpapers.com/ai24-932
How do your instructional and PD days compare? https://www.nctq.org/blog/How-long-is-your-school-year-It-dependsa-loton-where-you-live
Never mind mindfulness -- another look https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qnk2u
Is tutoring built on bad science? https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickhess/2024/03/20/has-k-12s-tutoring-boom-been-fueled-by-suspect-science/?sh=440807f156bc
A push for more equity measures in evaluating education https://www.future-ed.org/changing-the-narrative-the-push-for-new-equity-measures-in-education/
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