Ed News for K12 Researchers: Parents like grades not tests, USED reimagines IES, Tchr superstars fade on move to low SES schools, lower birth rates a good thing? Gd 3 tests predict future!: https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
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Ed News for K12 Researchers: Parents like grades not tests, USED reimagines IES, Tchr superstars fade on move to low SES schools, lower birth rates a good thing? Gd 3 tests predict future!: https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
Wipe out IES, NCES, lots of nonprofits and cut grants and it has many repercussions. One is the lack of material for this news blast. This will make this a biweekly or so blast for now, I will see if the content is there over the next couple of months.
Parents trust grades more than test scores https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-parents-report-cards/
The state of educational opportunity parent survey https://50can.org/education-opportunity-survey/
Parents favor tutoring, testing not so much https://www.the74million.org/article/exclusive-parents-favor-free-tutoring-summer-camp-open-enrollment-annual-testing-not-so-much/
Reimagining IES, from USED https://ies.ed.gov/ies/2026/02/reimagining-ies
Is the person or the school? Top teacher performance drops in high poverty schools https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/02/17/teacher-performance-drops-in-struggling-schools-and-context-matters/
And a summary for school leaders https://gamma.app/docs/Is-Teacher-Effectiveness-Fully-Portable-What-the-Research-Means-f-fm8h58umn0cqw24?mode=doc
NBER paper https://www.nber.org/papers/w34845
Ed Opportunity Project says use growth measures
https://edopportunity.org/papers/EOP%20Response%20to%20Cassidy%20RFI%20on%20Growth.pdf
Third grade test scores are a strong predictor of future academic success
Measuring early childhood classroom success https://edinstruments.org/collections/early-childhood-classroom-success-collection
Early grade retention impacts adult earnings
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20230121&&from=f
ACT for all works https://direct.mit.edu/edfp/article/12/3/281/10272/ACT-for-All-The-Effect-of-Mandatory-College
How SpEd enrollment keeps growing https://www.k12dive.com/news/these-3-charts-show-how-special-education-enrollment-keeps-growing-IDEA-autism/812897/
The segregation tracking project https://edopportunity.org/segregation/
Using data to improve schools https://consortium.uchicago.edu/resources/using-data-to-improve-schools
The case for lower birth rates being good https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/us/politics/us-birthrate-decline-women.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P1A.7_Az.UCcmKZY08ioY&smid=url-share
Education impact fadeout trends https://edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1366
Variation in 4 day school weeks https://caldercenter.org/publications/calendar-confusion-unpacking-variation-four-day-school-week
The effect of bullying on lifetime earnings https://edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1389
Impact of academic interventions after Covid
The problem with ed tech metaanalyses https://thedigitaldelusion.substack.com/p/no-edtech-isnt-getting-better-research?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Scoring method and VAM measures https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/emip.70011
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