Ed News for K12 Researchers: Improving math, the worth of college, Kids Count Databook 2025, your brain on Chat GPT, tensions and tradeoffs with coproducing rsch with practitioners: https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
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Ed News for K12 Researchers: Improving math, the worth of college, Kids Count Databook 2025, your brain on Chat GPT, tensions and tradeoffs with coproducing rsch with practitioners: https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
This fortnight’s interesting links for DREs. Summer schedule – every 2 weeks (or so)
Note: links in the news blast go on to page 2
Arlington TX has a job opening for a research analyst, and I know of a Phoenix area district opening coming up soon
Arlington Texas is looking for a data analyst. (there is one upcoming in the Phoenix area as well) https://www.atenterprise.powerschool.com/ats/job_board_form?op=view&JOB_ID=0000761946&COMPANY_ID=WA003038&redirect_qs=&redirect_qs=APPLICANT_TYPE_ID%3D00000003%26COMPANY_ID%3DWA003038
Kids Count databook https://www.aecf.org/resources/2025-kids-count-data-book
Gallup Walton Poll on school improvement perceptions
Getting teachers to use data in smart ways https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/a-personal-nudge-can-get-teachers-to-use-student-data-in-smart-ways/2025/06
NAEP and lifetime outcomes https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pam.70018?af=R
USED reinstates some ed research https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-restart-ed-contracts/
Your brain on chat GPT https://www.brainonllm.com/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
The head of the Classic Learning Test on changes to competitors SAT and ACT https://jamesgmartin.center/2025/06/the-sats-trust-fall/
Practice side tensions and tradeoffs when co-producing research
Immigration raids and absence increases https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/immigration-raids-school-absences-deportation-fears.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.O331.V1tY_516QG0-&smid=url-share
Pension costs driving budget cuts? https://equable.org/funding-cuts-due-to-growing-pension-costs/
Research based recruiting of highly effective teachers https://edresearchforaction.org/research-briefs/from-candidate-to-classroom-research-based-practices-for-recruiting-and-hiring-highly-effective-teachers/
The importance of success systems in decreasing course failures and absenteeism https://www.diverseeducation.com/students/article/15748740/student-success-systems-show-dramatic-impact-on-course-failure-chronic-absenteeism-rates
State role for improving experienced teachers https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-new-state-role-for-experienced-teacher-improvement/
Do the returns of teacher experience fizzle out? https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/research/think-again-do-returns-teacher-experience-fizzle-out
Productivity returns due to teacher experience
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272715000304?via%3Dihub
The math gaps starts young https://weareallsolvers.org/math-gaps-emerge-early-students-deserve-early-interventions/
Most say they are not math people https://www.the74million.org/article/most-students-say-theyre-not-math-people-rand-survey-finds/
And they lose interest in math https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA3988-1.html?project=&utm_campaign=&utm_content=1750198169&utm_medium=rand_social&utm_source=twitter
Math PD, teacher knowledge and student achievement https://edworkingpapers.com/policy-practice-series/ai24-1023
Catching kids up in Algebra I https://www.the74million.org/article/in-algebra-1-new-understanding-of-an-old-problem-can-support-students/
States need to better prepare elem (math) teachers https://www.the74million.org/article/new-report-states-need-to-up-their-game-on-preparing-elementary-math-teachers/
Zearn math: Close but no cigar in Texas https://edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1211
The moment the gender math gap appears -- not at the start of first year of school but 4 months in https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01831-4?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=14909160
How should we measure school performance? https://www.future-ed.org/webinar-how-should-we-measure-school-performance-a-conversation/
Unpacking California's enrollment decline https://www.ppic.org/blog/unpacking-californias-continued-school-enrollment-decline/
Why aren't we having more babies? https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-arent-we-having-more-babies/
Marriage and divorce trends https://ourworldindata.org/marriages-and-divorces
Social studies helps reading, especially for those from low income families
https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/resources/social-studies-instruction-and-reading-comprehension
Principals think a 4 day week helps recruitment. The data says 'not that I see'.
https://caldercenter.org/publications/effects-four-day-school-week-teacher-recruitment-and-retention
And it may not help finances either https://edworkingpapers.com/policy-practice-series/ai25-1208
Congrats Graduate! (not really) https://cew.georgetown.edu/resource/cew-blog-the-plight-recent-college-graduate/
How much is that degree worth? https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/historical-trends-college-wage-premium
Some college no degree report https://nscresearchcenter.org/some-college-no-credential/
Career pathways in a changing world https://rodelde.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/oecd-summary-final.pdf
What NOLA learned in 20 years of post Katrina Ed
GRAD partnership results https://www.gradpartnership.org/resources/year-2-results/
Teacher subjective feeling survey https://edinstruments.org/instruments/teacher-subjective-wellbeing-questionnaire
Teacher sense of eccifacy scale https://edinstruments.org/instruments/teacher-sense-efficacy-scale-tses
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