Research that Counts

226 in the collection  

• FCAT third-grade reading law questioned (2008-07-16)
• Inhuman Powers and Terrible Things: The Theory and Practice of Alienated Labor in Urban Schools (2008-07-11)
• Inhuman Powers and Terrible Things: The Theory and Practice of Alienated Labor in Urban Schools (2008-07-11)
• News Analysis: Pentagon's New Social-Science Program Stirs Old Anxieties (2008-07-02)
• Education Week's Graduation Rate Estimates Are "Exceedingly Inaccurate," Experts Say (2008-06-04)
• Mothers Against WASL Response to WASL and COE Score Release (2008-06-03)
• Cultural Attitudes Affect Girls' Math Performance, Analysis Finds (2008-05-30)
• Anthropology Association Urges Government to Tread Cautiously With 'Minerva' Project (2008-05-28)
• The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Their Unions (2008-05-26)
• A ROADBLOCK in Vermont's Design for Education (2008-05-15)
• What Research Says About... / Grade Retention (2008-03-26)
• An Impossible Mandate, Part 2 (2008-03-24)
• An Impossible Mandate (2008-03-24)
• Alfie Kohn Weighs in on Homework (2008-03-20)
• Alfie Kohn Weighs in on Homework (2008-03-20)
• Putting the Play Back in Kindergarten (2008-03-18)
• Can You Read as Well As a Fifth-Grader? Check the Formula (2008-03-14)
• The Worst Book of the 21st Century - a review (2008-03-11)
• ABCTE and the Dissembling Hacks and Plagiarizers They Employ (With Your Money) (2008-03-05)
• Study: Phys ed may boost girls' academic achievement (2008-03-05)
• Creative Play Makes for Kids in Control (2008-02-28)
• Assessing What Matters (2008-02-19)
• Poverty mars formation of infant brains (2008-02-18)
• Taking Play Seriously (2008-02-17)
• Why Traditional Stereotypes Don't Help to Deal with Youth Crime (2008-02-17)
• Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis (2008-02-16)
• Hidden Trauma: Studies Cite Head Injuries s Factor in Some Social Ills (2008-01-29)
• What makes a good teacher? (2008-01-26)
• Research on DIBELS (2008-01-21)
• The Early Bird Gets the Bad Grade (2008-01-16)
• The Rotten Apples in Education Awards for 2007 (2008-01-09)
• All Brains Are the Same Color (2008-01-07)
• Cultivating Happiness (2007-12-31)
• Those Who Would Be President Pontificate on Education (2007-12-21)
• Improvement in Florida Schools Libraries Boosts FCAT Scores and Students Reading Abilities (2007-12-17)
• Screening Tests To Identify Children With Reading Problems Are Being Misapplied, Study Shows (2007-11-30)
• Teenage Brains Seem Set for Recklessness, Yet Tend to Avoid Risk (2007-11-30)
• Are We Reading Less and Reading Worse? Probably Not. (2007-11-25)
• Accelerated Reader: Once Again, Evidence Lacking (2007-11-18)
• Lead exposure, crime seem to correlate (2007-11-13)
• Bad Behavior Does Not Doom Pupils, Studies Say (2007-11-13)
• Family Factors Critical to Closing Achievement Gap (2007-11-12)
• The Science Education Myth (2007-10-26)
• A Negative Report on Choice from a Free Market Group (2007-10-25)
• Snooze or Lose (2007-10-23)
• Study reveals stressed out 7-11 year-olds (2007-10-12)
• The Effects of Reward Proximity and Choice of Reward on the Reading Motivation of Third-Grade Students (2007-10-09)
• Forging Facts to Fit "Reading First" Mandates (part 3) (2007-10-09)
• The DIBELS Tests: Is Speed of Barking at Print What We Mean by Reading Fluency? (2007-10-09)
• Forging Facts to Fit "Reading First" Mandates (Part 2) (2007-09-30)
• Alex Wanted a Cracker, but Did He Want One? (2007-09-16)
• Alex the Parrot< (2007-09-12)
• Alex, a Parrot Who Had a Way With Words, Dies (2007-09-11)
• Miseducating Teachers about the Poor: A Critical Analysis of Ruby Payne's Claims about Poverty (2007-09-06)
• Childhood TV viewing linked to teen attention problems (2007-09-05)
• New science provides compelling framework for early childhood investment (2007-08-10)
• Validity of High-School Grades In Predicting Student Success Beyond the Freshman Year (2007-06-21)
• A Spectrum of Disputes (2007-06-11)
• The Science of Early Childhood Development: Closing the Gap Between What We Know and What We Do (2007-06-08)
• Toward a More Effective Definition of Adequate Yearly Progress (2007-06-08)
• The Pending Reauthorization of NCLB: An Opportunity to Rethink the Basic Strategy (2007-06-08)
• The Gift of Bleak Research (2007-05-21)
• Refocusing Accountability: Using Local Performance Assessments to Enhance Teaching and (2007-05-19)
• Conflicting Studies About Private Management Not Conclusive (2007-05-08)
• Reforms that could help NARROW the Achievement Gap (2007-05-06)
• Please help us document the impact of high stakes tests on students' and others' lives (2007-05-06)
• Key Component of NCLB Lacks Research Support (2007-05-02)
• Return of the Deficit (2007-04-24)
• Analysis of 2003 Released TAKS Reading Tests (2007-04-01)
• The Other Adolescent Suicide (2007-03-29)
• Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior (2007-03-23)
• Free Reading (2007-01-20)
• How Thinking Can Change the Brain: Dalai Lama Helps Scientists Show the Power of the Mind to Sculpt Our Gray Matter (2007-01-19)
• On Being Sane In Insane Places (2007-01-13)
• Student Ratings of Stressful Experiences at Home and School Loss of a Parent and Grade Retention as Superlative Stressors (2007-01-07)
• Five Missing Pillars of Scientific Reading Instruction (2006-12-18)
• NCLB Widens Achievement Gap - Getting the Message Out (2006-12-03)
• 'Proficiency for All' – An Oxymoron (2006-11-22)
• Student Achievement and National Economic Growth (2006-11-21)
• Free Voluntary Reading (FVR)“Pays” Big Dividends! (2006-11-12)
• Rethinking High School Graduation Rates and Trends (2006-11-10)
• 276 Nobel Prizes in Science: U.S. Science Education the World’s Best (2006-10-17)
• The Case for Alcoholics Anonymous: It Works Even if the Science Is Lacking (2006-10-17)
• New AAP Report Stresses Play for Healthy Development (2006-10-10)
• The Welfare Nanny Diaries (2006-10-03)
• Foster Care (2006-10-01)
• American Medical Education 100 Years after the Flexner Report (2006-09-28)
• Coprehending DIBELS (2006-09-27)
• NCLB's School Evaluation System is a Flawed Reform Tool, Report Concludes (2006-09-27)
• Charles Darwin and the Racing Asparagus (2006-09-22)
• To improve the brain, school works the body (2006-09-21)
• The Socially Intelligent Leader (2006-09-21)
• Rocket Scientists Not as Smart as Originally Thought (2006-09-15)
• Wisconsin Projections of Employment 2004 to 2014: Education and Training (2006-09-14)
• Evidence on Education under NCLB (and How Florida Boosted NAEP Scores and Reduced the Race Gap) (2006-09-13)
• Fordham Gets Failing Grade for Its State Standards “Report Cards” (2006-09-11)
• Response to "March of the Pessimists" (2006-09-03)
• Brief Intervention Improves Achievement of Students Subject to Negative Stereotyping, Study Finds (2006-09-01)
• Repeating school has no benefit: study (2006-08-30)
• Manifold Destiny (2006-08-24)
• Cutting Through Right-Wing Spin on Public Education: When the Going Gets Tough, Privatization Proponents Get Paul Peterson (2006-08-07)
• Public vs. Private School Report Spurs Controversy (2006-07-28)
• Children need even more exercise (2006-07-21)
• Language Arts STAR Lacks Luster (2006-07-16)
• Worse Than Ever? (2006-07-11)
• Life Events Thwart Scientists' Attempts To Draw DNA Profiles (2006-07-10)
• The New Common Sense of Education: Advocacy Research Versus Academic Authority (2006-07-08)
• The Mismanagement of Reading First: Summary of Evidence, Part 2 (2006-06-15)
• The Mismanagement of Reading First: Summary of Evidence, Part 1 (2006-06-15)
• Review: Bracey, Gerald. W. (2006). Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered (2006-05-29)
• Schooling, Statistics, and Poverty:; Can We Measure School Improvement? (2006-05-27)
• EMO INDUSTRY CONSOLIDATING, RECONFIGURING TO MEET DEMAND FOR SES (2006-05-18)
• Vouchers: Who's Behind It All? (2006-05-18)
• The High Cost of Dropping Out: How Many? How Come? How Much? (2006-05-16)
• A Question of Resilience (2006-05-01)
• Adults' Differing Perceptions Make It Hard to Read Johnny (2006-04-26)
• The "Open Court Effect"? (2006-04-26)
• Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends (2006-04-20)
• A Strange Ignorance (2006-04-12)
• Comparison of Schizophrenia Drugs Often Favors Firm Funding Study (2006-04-12)
• 65% Solution Is No Solution, Report Says (2006-04-10)
• Putting the Play Back in Kindergarten (2006-04-05)
• Goldwater Institute Report on Special Education (2006-04-04)
• Only 1.1 Percent of High Poverty Schools are Truly "High Flyers," Study Says (2006-03-21)
• ACT's irresponsible report. ACT joins the fear-mongerers (2006-03-06)
• California Standards Tests (CSTs) Leave Most Children Behind (2006-03-03)
• There Was No “Oceanside Miracle” (2006-02-21)
• Study hints AP classes overrated (2006-02-18)
• Just Another Big Con: The Crisis in Mathematics and Science Education (2006-02-06)
• High-Stakes Testing and Student Achievement: Does Accountability Pressure Increase Student Learning? (2006-01-04)
• The Rotten Apples in Education Awards 2005 (2006-01-03)
• Who's Who and What's What: A Scoring Guide for NAEP, the Outfit Claiming to be The Nation's Report Card (2005-12-01)
• Part 2: How Does NAEP Label a Reader (2005-12-01)
• Massachusetts Dropout Rates Rise in 2003-2004: Recommendations for Action (2005-11-07)
• Study Raises Issues on Small High Schools (2005-11-04)
• Preschool study finds bright side, dark side (2005-11-01)
• Scholars Find Kindergarten Retention Fails to Help - and May Hinder - Academic Achievement in Reading and Mathematics (2005-10-10)
• Study Predicts 95 Percent of Great Lakes Schools Will Be Labeled 'Failing' by 2014 (2005-09-15)
• High School Reform: The Downside of Scaling-Up (2005-09-15)
• Working families' incomes often fail to meet living expenses around the U.S. (2005-09-09)
• Data or Scare-Talk About American Schools? (2005-08-31)
• Special Report: Reading First Under Fire: IG Targets Conflicts of Interest, Limits on Local Control (2005-08-27)
• When Research Goes to Market, Is It a Good Thing for Education? (2005-08-27)
• Multiple Measures Approaches to High School Graduation (2005-08-27)
• Is bilingual education report being downplayed? (2005-08-26)
• Educational Ethnography and the Politics of Globalization, War, and Resistance (2005-08-07)
• School Beat: Notes on the Recent NAEP Test Results (2005-08-06)
• The Big Con in Education: Why must "all" high school graduates be prepared for college? (2005-07-20)
• Study Finds 'Trade-Off' Between Financing National Merit Scholars and Enrolling Pell Grant Recipients (2005-07-15)
• No Child Left Behind: Where Does the Money Go? Part 1 (2005-06-21)
• No Child Left Behind: Where Does the Money Go? Part 2 (2005-06-21)
• New Report Examines Local Impact of High School Exit Exams (2005-06-14)
• The Effectiveness of Retention (2005-06-06)
• Charter Schools’ Performance and Accountability: A Disconnect (2005-05-22)
• Review: In Defense of Our Children: When Politics, Profit and Education Collide (2005-05-04)
• Sociologist at New York U. Wins $500,000 (2005-04-28)
• “Media Multi-tasking” Changing the Amount and Nature of Young People’s Media Use (2005-04-06)
• Annual School Report Cards in Newspapers (2005-04-04)
• Education on Lockdown: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track (2005-03-26)
• Texas Charter School Legislation and the Evolution of Open-Enrollment Charter Schools (2005-03-20)
• The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators Through High-Stakes Testing (2005-03-18)
• When Are Racial Disparities in Education the Result of Racial Discrimination? A Social Science Perspective (2005-03-10)
• Teachers College Book Review: Why Is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools? (2005-03-01)
• Scholars Respond to Scientific Research in Education Report (2005-02-23)
• Research that Matters: Putting Testing to the Test (2005-02-06)
• The Case for Late Intervention: Once a Good Reader, Always a Good Reader (2005-02-03)
• Locating the Dropout Crisis (2005-01-26)
• Change and Continuity in Student Achievement from Grades 3 to 5: A Policy (2005-01-02)
• The Perverse Incentives of the No Child Left Behind Act (2004-12-03)
• What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (2004-11-15)
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• Second Time Around (2004-11-05)
• School Size, Achievement, and Achievement Gaps (2004-10-22)
• The Trouble With Research, Part 3 (2004-09-25)
• Kids Don't Measure Friendship in Inches (2004-09-13)
• The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker (2004-09-07)
• Full Page Ad in The New York Times (2004-08-25)
• Ideology, Practice, and the Voices of Louisiana Educators (2004-08-12)
• Voices from the Frontlines: Teachers’ Perceptions of High-Stakes Testing (2004-08-08)
• The K12 Virtual Primary School History Curriculum: A Participant’s-eye View (2004-07-06)
• Assessment as Inquiry (2004-06-10)
• Another Kind of Research: Close-Up on One Member of the Educators for Bush Team (2004-06-04)
• Pay Now or Pay Later: The Hidden Costs of High School Exit Exams (2004-06-03)
• Errors in Standardized Tests: A Systemic Problem (2004-05-30)
• What You Need to Know to Read a Newspaper Article (2004-05-17)
• Research Can Kill You (2004-04-28)
• Free Voluntary reading: New Research, Applications, and Controversies (2004-04-27)
• Rewards, Not Sanctions, Help Schoolsl Succeed Under Accountability Programs, Study Finds (2004-04-16)
• Results of Direct Instruction Reading Program Evaluation Longitudinal Results: First Through Third Grade 2000-2003 (2004-04-14)
• "Reform Florida" Policy Briefs (2004-04-05)
• Position Statement on Student Grade Retention and Social Promotion (2004-03-14)
• Promoting Academic Achievement through Social and (2004-03-12)
• The Need for an Independent Review of the Reading Mastery StudyConducted by Dr. Randall Ryder (2004-03-05)
• The "Reading the Mind In the Eyes" Test (2004-03-03)
• The Pivotal Year (2004-02-21)
• ROLE OF PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP IN INCREASING TEACHER RETENTION (2004-02-20)
• New Scheme to Sell Suburbanites on School Vouchers: Scaring Whites with Taxes & Fears of Minority Influx (2004-02-17)
• What the Harvard Civil Rights project has to say about NCLB (2004-02-08)
• "The Education Pipeline in the United States, 1970-2000," compares school enrollment data by grade from the Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics. (2004-02-05)
• Black Alliance for Educational Options: Community Voice or Captive of the Right? (2004-02-01)
• The Testing Movement and Delayed Gratification (2004-01-29)
• School Size -- Bigger is Not Better (2003-12-25)
• The Bias Question (2003-12-18)
• Limits of High Stakes Testing (2003-11-11)
• The Lexile Framework: Unnecessary and Potentially Harmful (2003-10-26)
• New Ring Around Uranus Linked to Missing Tests (2003-10-19)
• Attrition of Students from New York Schools (2003-10-07)
• How Many Books Would $87 Billion Buy? (2003-09-29)
• Wisconsin Education Program Reduces Class Size, Increasing Student Achievement (2003-09-25)
• Constraining Elementary Teachers' Work: Dilemmas and Paradoxes Created by State Mandated Testing (2003-09-23)
• Performance Standards: Utility for Different Uses of Assessments (2003-09-06)
• Study Reports Genes' Sway Over IQ May Vary with Class (2003-09-02)
• The 35th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup POLL (2003-08-20)
• What You Need to Know About Just For Kids and Who's Backing It (2003-08-16)
• With Friends Like These Progressives, Who Needs to Worry About Conservatives? (2003-07-03)
• IQ: The Most Complex--and Controversial--of All Complex Traits (2003-06-20)
• Report on Early Childhood Development (2003-06-20)
• Errors in Standardized Tests: A Systemic Problem (2003-06-14)
• NAEP Achievement Levels: Inappropriate Statistics Unethically Used (2003-06-13)
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• Reading First Cautions and Recommendations (2003-06-09)
• What Can Student Drawings Tell Us About High-Stakes Testing in Massachusetts? (2003-05-24)
• Surprise, Surprise: MASS DoE Inflated Special Ed Students Pass Rate (2003-05-14)
• The Annual Meeting of Education Reporters, Writers and Editors: Plenty of Wattage but Not Much Illumination (2003-05-12)
• Reid Lyon's Language of Terror! (2003-05-11)
• While the Feds Insist We Must Prepare Students for High-Tech Jobs, All These Jobs are Being Shipped Overseas (2003-05-12)