School based mindfulness training helps kids sleep better
At-risk children gained more than an hour of sleep per night after participating in a mindfulness curriculum at their elementary schools, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine found. The research will be published online July 6 in the *Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine*. The study is the first to use polysomnography techniques, which measure brain activity, to assess how school-based mindfulness training changes children's sleep. The curriculum taught children how to relax and manage stress by focusing their attention on the present, but it di... read more
Education Research Report23 hours ago
Autistic children can benefit from attention training
Research News Attention training in young people with autism can lead to significant improvements in academic performance, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK along with institutions in São Paolo, in Brazil, tested a computer programme designed to train basic attention skills among a group of autistic children aged between eight and 14 years old. They found participants achieved improvements in maths, reading, writing and overall attention both immediately after undergoing the training and at a three-month foll... read more
Education Research Report23 hours ago
For many students, double-dose algebra leads to college attainment
-- In the United States, low-income and minority students are completing college at low rates compared to higher-income and majority peers -- a detriment to reducing economic inequality. Double-dose algebra could be a solution, according to a new study published in *roceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* of the United States of America (PNAS). The... read more
Education Research Report1 day ago
Regular monitoring may be only way to prevent large COVID-19 outbreaks in schools
A new study examines factors that underlie COVID-19 outbreaks in schools and suggests that large outbreaks can only be prevented with regular monitoring of everyone in the school setting. Paul Tupper and Caroline Colijn of Simon Fraser University, Canada, present these findings in the open-access journal *PLOS Computational Biology*. Data from around the world show highly varied outcomes for COVID-19 clusters in schools, with some settings having many large outbreaks and others having few serious problems. The factors underlying this variability have been unclear, as have the mos... read more
Education Research Report4 days ago
Measures of Preservice Principal Practice Predict Future Principal Job Performance
Principals are the second-largest school-based contributor to student achievement. Interventions focused early in the “pipeline” for identifying and developing effective principals might be a promising strategy for promoting principal effectiveness, yet no prior research has examined measures of principal performance during preservice preparation. This study analyzes 31 measures of principal practices developed by New Leaders and integrate into their year-long, preservice Aspiring Principals program, linking these measures to administrative data in nine districts to understand ... read more
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New Report on Teacher Requirements to Help Students Outside Regular School Hours
One-fifth of principals reported that teachers at their school were required to help students with their academic needs outside regular school hours, and one in 10 reported that teachers were required to help students with their social and emotional needs outside regular school hours in school year 2017-18. A new NCES Data Point, *Teacher Requirements to Help Students Outside Regular School Hours in 2017–18*, examines principal reports about whether teachers were required to help students with their academic or social and emotional needs outside regular school hou... read more
Education Research Report2 weeks ago
How elementary school principals spend their workweek
A new snapshot finds that elementary school principals in the study spend about 16 hours (more than one-third of their typical 41-hour workweek) providing instructional support to teachers, either directly or indirectly by arranging resources for teachers to use. Key findings include: - *Principals spent less time providing instructional support to teachers than on other tasks**.* Although principals spent more than a third of their typical workweek providing instructional support, on average they spent just over 60 percent of their time (about 25 hours) on other ... read more
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“Framework for Equitable Instruction” supports multilingual students’ content-area learning and language development.
This article explores the development of a guidance document titled the “Framework for Equitable Instruction” (Framework), which aims to support multilingual students’ content-area learning and language development. The Framework was developed by WIDA, a national consortium of states, as part of its system of language standards, assessments, and professional learning. The article discusses the Framework using a protocol originally created for the alignment of content-area and language standards. The protocol highlights the rigorous theoretical foundations of the Framework, the re... read more
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Amending Minnesota's constitution to include strong language regarding a legislative duty to fund schools?
*The Effect of Constitutional Provisions on Education Policy and Outcomes*, a recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, examines the potential effects of amending education clauses contained in states’ constitutions. Bruce D. Baker of Rutgers University *reviewed* the report and found its conclusions to be overly simplistic, despite using excessively complex analyses to make its case. The apparent intent of the Federal Reserve Bank report is to provide an empirical justification for amending the education clause of Minnesota’s constitution. Specifically, the re... read more
Education Research Report3 weeks ago
Job-related stress threatens the teacher supply - RAND survey
RAND CORPORATION Research News Nearly one in four teachers may leave their job by the end of the current (2020-'21) school year, compared with one in six who were likely to leave prior to the pandemic, according to a new RAND Corporation survey. Teachers who identified as Black or African American were particularly likely to consider leaving. U.S. public-school teachers surveyed in January and February 2021 reported they are almost twice as likely to experience frequent job-related stress as the general employed adult population and almost three times as... read more
Education Research Report3 weeks ago
How Reading and Mathematics Performance at Age 15 Relate to Life Outcomes at Age 19
Today, IES released a new report, *2012*–*2016 Program for International Student Assessment Young Adult Follow-up Study (PISA YAFS): How reading and mathematics performance at age 15 relate to literacy and numeracy skills and education, workforce, and life outcomes at age 19*. Key findings include: - Most 15- and 19-year-olds were middle performers, with 77 percent of U.S. young adults performing in the middle levels of proficiency in reading at age 15 and 72 percent performing in the middle levels of proficiency in literacy at age 19. - Proficien... read more
Education Research Report3 weeks ago
School choice report: Significant methodological weaknesses and flaws that render the report useless
A recent brief from the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas is being used by voucher advocates to argue that increasing school choice can spur broad test score improvements. However, T. Jameson Brewer of the University of North Georgia and Joel Malin of Miami University *reviewed* *Education Freedom and Student Achievement: Is More School Choice Associated with Higher State-Level Performance on the NAEP?*, and found significant methodological weaknesses and flaws that render the report useless for guiding policy. The report ranks states based on their... read more
Education Research Report3 weeks ago
Free and nutritious school lunches help create richer and healthier adults
LUND UNIVERSITY Research News SHARE PRINT E-MAIL Universal school lunch programs make students healthier, and increase their lifetime income by 3%, according to a unique study from Lund University in Sweden published in The Review of Economic Studies. Health disparities arise early in life and play a major role in economic outcomes among adults. Yet there are few studies on the long-term effects of school-based nutrition policies aimed at counteracting them. Researchers from Lund University and Stockholm University can now show that universal school lunch programs have sig... read more
Education Research Report4 weeks ago
Dana Center Mathematics Pathways Shows Positive Findings for College Students
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) recently reviewed the research on *Dana Center Mathematics Pathways *and its impacts on high school students. The results are summarized in an intervention report released today, June 10, 2021, by IES. *DCMP* offers multiple math pathways aligned to programs of study, accelerated enrollment in credit-bearing college math courses, integrated student supports, and math instruction that incorporates evidence-based curricula and pedagogy. Based on the research, the WWC found that *DCMP *has positive effects on progressing in developmental education ... read more
Education Research Report4 weeks ago
Study shows how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills
NIH scientists discover that the resting brain repeatedly replays compressed memories of what was just practiced. [image: Christopher G. Thomas]In a study of healthy volunteers, NIH researchers discovered that our brains may replay compressed memories of learning new skills when we rest. Above is a map of the memory replay activity observed in the study.Cohen lab, NINDS In a study of healthy volunteers, National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped out the brain activity that flows when we learn a new skill, such as playing a new song on the piano, and discovered why takin... read more
Education Research Report4 weeks ago
Parental Involvement in U.S Public Schools in 2017-18
The National Center for Education Statistics released a new Data Point report today, Parental Involvement in U.S Public Schools in 2017-18. This report examines parent and/or guardian involvement in various school-based engagement opportunities, as reported by public primary, middle, and high school principals. Findings include: - Principals reported that in the 2016-17 school year, all nine parent engagement opportunities NTPS listed were more often available at primary schools than at middle or high schools. - Among schools offering the same parent engagement oppo... read more
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Outcomes for Students Who Focused on Career and Technical Education in High School
Education policymakers in Indiana and Minnesota created career and technical education programs to improve high school students’ postsecondary and employment outcomes. This *REL Midwest* study examined whether high school graduates in each state who completed a large number of career and technical education courses in a single career-oriented program of study (concentrators) had different college and workforce outcomes from graduates who completed fewer (samplers) or no career and technical education courses (nonparticipants). Key findings include the following: - In both sta... read more
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Lack of math education negatively affects adolescent brain and cognitive development
A new study suggests that not having any math education after the age of 16 can be disadvantageous A new study suggests that not having any maths education after the age of 16 can be disadvantageous. - Adolescents who stopped studying maths showed a reduction in a critical brain chemical for brain development. This reduction in brain chemical was found in a key brain area that supports maths, memory, learning, reasoning and problem solving. - This amount of brain chemical successfully predicted co... read more
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Middle School and High School Indicators that Predict Postsecondary Readiness and Success
A new report from *REL Southwest* examines the extent to which middle school and high school indicators of college and career readiness predict a postsecondary readiness outcome (an ACT score of 19 or higher) and success outcomes (college enrollment within eight years of beginning grade 6, and college persistence, or enrollment in more than one term within eight years of beginning grade 6). The indicators are aligned to the Arkansas Every Student Succeeds Act plan. Key findings include the following: - Middle school indicators accurately predicted the readiness and succe... read more
Education Research Report5 weeks ago
Combination of early reading programs helps with kindergarten readiness
A study published in the journal *Pediatrics*shows the combination of two early reading programs had positive effects on preschool students entering kindergarten in Cincinnati Public Schools over a three-year period. The two early reading programs are: Reach Out and Read, through which children receive a new book and guidance about reading at home during well-visits from newborn through age 5; and Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which mails new books to the child's home once a month from birth through age 5. Each of these is well-established at Cincinnati Children's Hospita... read more
Education Research Report5 weeks ago
Less than a third (28%) of STEM-educated workers actually working in a STEM job.
But STEM Majors Earned More Than Other STEM Workers Majoring in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) does not guarantee a job in a STEM occupation but it typically means a bump in pay. Among the 50 million employed college graduates ages 25 to 64 in 2019, 37% reported a bachelor’s degree in science or engineering but only 14% worked in a STEM occupation, according to the Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey 1-year estimates. This translates into less than a third (28%) of STEM-educated workers actually working in a STEM job. *STEM workers who majored in a... read more
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FDA Authorizes Marketing of Diagnostic Aid for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized marketing of a device to help diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The Cognoa ASD Diagnosis Aid is a machine learning-based software intended to help health care providers diagnose ASD in children 18 months through 5 years of age who exhibit potential symptoms of the disorder. *“Autism spectrum disorder can delay a child’s physical, cognitive and social development, including motor skill development, learning, communication and interacting with others. The earlier ASD can be diagnosed, the more quickly intervention strat... read more
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Scientists say active early learning shapes the adult brain
Virginia Tech, Penn researchers show early learning shapes adult brain structure n enhanced learning environment during the first five years of life shapes the brain in ways that are apparent four decades later, say Virginia Tech and University of Pennsylvania scientists writing in... read more
Education Research Report5 weeks ago
Foster care, homelessness are higher education hurdles
New research shows stable housing, money for books among chief concerns UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA Research News A college education is estimated to add $1 million to a person's lifetime earning potential, but for some students the path to earning one is riddled with obstacles. That journey is even more difficult for students who have been in the foster care system or experienced homelessness, according to a new study from the University of Georgia. But the more college administrators and faculty know about these students' problems, the more they can do to ea... read more
Education Research Report5 weeks ago
New Report Compares State Performance Standards Using NAEP
Today, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is releasing Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP Scales: Results From the 2019 NAEP Reading and Mathematics Assessments. This study compares standards for proficient performances set by states in reading and mathematics for grades 4 and 8 using states’ performances in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report card. The results show— - Most state standards for proficient performance for both grades and subjects mapped at or above the *NAEP Basic* achievem... read more
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Changing Returns to Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap
*Rising labor market returns to education and a stable disparity in educational attainment led to a doubling in the share of the earnings gap between Black and White men that is attributable to the education gap.* The return to education in the US labor market has increased in recent decades, raising the importance of disparities in educational attainment between Black and White men in accounting for the earnings gap between these two groups. In *Human Capital and Black-White Earnings Gaps, 1966–2017* (NBER Working Paper 28586), Owen Thompson compares earnings outcomes for men b... read more
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Positive effects of accelerated college credit programs on student outcomes
A new study found positive effects of accelerated college credit programs on student outcomes in Rhode Island. REL Northeast & Islands researchers examined participation in three types of accelerated college credit programs—dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, and AP testing—in Rhode Island high schools to understand their effect on the rate of high school completion and postsecondary outcomes, using data from the 2013/14 statewide 9th grade cohort. The study found: - Nearly half of all students participated in at least one accelerated college credit program, with mo... read more
Education Research Report5 weeks ago
High school students in the United States unable to discern quality information from sham online
Are today’s students able to discern quality information from sham online? In the largest investigation of its kind, this study administered an assessment to 3,446 high school students. Equipped with a live internet connection, the students responded to six constructed-response tasks. The students struggled on all of them. Asked to investigate a site claiming to “disseminate factual reports” on climate science, 96% never learned about the organization’s ties to the fossil fuel industry. Two thirds were unable to distinguish news stories from ads on a popular website’s home page.... read more
Education Research Report5 weeks ago
Positive effects of School Improvement Grants
School Improvement Grants (SIGs) exemplify a capacity-building investment to spur sustainable changes in America’s persistently lowest-performing schools and stimulate the economy. This study examines both short- and longer-term effects of the first two cohorts of SIG schools from four locations across the country. Dynamic difference-in-differences models show that SIGs’ effects on achievement in Grades 3 to 8, as measured by state test scores in math and English language arts, gradually increased over the three reform years and were largely sustained for 3 or 4 years afterward.... read more
Education Research Report5 weeks ago
Access to apps significantly improved student performance in developmental education outcome
Developmental education, in which college students deemed unprepared for college-level coursework enroll in non-credit-bearing courses, is widespread in American higher education. This study evaluates the effect of mobile app courseware on the college outcomes of developmental education students using a research design that randomly assigned course sections to receive access to the apps or not. The results show that access to the apps significantly improved student performance in developmental education outcomes and marginally improved medium-term college persistence and perform... read more
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Cognitive exercises help young children boost their math skills
Young children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial rotation exercises, according to a large study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The findings support the notion that training spatial cognition can enhance academic performance and that when it comes to math, the type of training matters. The study is published in the journal *Nature Human Behaviour*. "In this large, randomized study we found that when it comes to enhancing mathematical learning in young children, the type of co... read more
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Web-based coaching: Helpful to teachers, but no effect on students
This article describes and evaluates a web-based coaching program designed to support teachers in implementing Common Core–aligned math instruction. Web-based coaching programs can be operated at relatively lower costs, are scalable, and make it more feasible to pair teachers with coaches who have expertise in their content area and grade level. Results from the randomized field trial document sizable and sustained effects on both teachers’ ability to analyze instruction and on their instructional practice, as measured by the Mathematical Quality of Instruction instrument and st... read more
Education Research Report1 month ago
Lower comprehension scores for digital books
This meta-analysis examines the inconsistent findings across experimental studies that compared children’s learning outcomes with digital and paper books. The authors quantitatively reviewed 39 studies reported in 30 articles (n = 1,812 children) and compared children’s story comprehension and vocabulary learning in relation to medium (reading on paper versus on-screen), design enhancements in digital books, the presence of a dictionary, and adult support for children aged between 1 and 8 years. The comparison of digital versus paper books that only differed by digitization show... read more
Education Research Report1 month ago
An Assessment of the Impact of the New York City Community Schools Initiative
Research Questions 1. What is the impact of the NYC-CS on outcomes related to attendance, educational attainment, academic achievement, student behavior, and school climate and culture? 2. To what extent are the overall impacts of NYC-CS being observed among key subgroups of students within schools? 3. To what extent are there differences in program impact related to school characteristics such as programmatic implementation, grade configuration, principal experience, and the residential dispersion of students? With the launch of the New York City C... read more
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NAEP Report Card: 2019 NAEP Science Assessment
See how U.S. fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students performed in science Between January and March 2019, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) science assessment was administered to a nationally representative sample of fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students. Results are compared to those from 2015 and previous science assessments back to 2009, the first year under the current science framework. This Report Card Highlights provides key findings from the 2019 science assessment. See the NAEP Science Report Card to explore the full set of student perf... read more
Education Research Report1 month ago
Condition of Education 2021
The *Condition of Education *contains indicators on the state of education in the United States, from prekindergarten through postsecondary education, as well as labor force outcomes and international comparisons. Beginning with the 2021 edition, the *Condition of Education* also includes indicators from the former *Indicators of School Crime and Safety*. This year’s edition also includes two Spotlight indicators, which use experimental data from the Household Pulse Survey to examine preliminary educational impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, particularly related to online learn... read more
Education Research Report1 month ago
The student debt dilemma
Full report Research has shown again and again that college pays off. The irony of the debate over student debt cancellation is that the degree itself puts most college graduates in a pretty good position to pay off the loans they took out to pay for the degree. However, the cost of college and total student loan debt have been rising for decades. Total student loan debt, which recently surpassed $1.7 trillion, poses a considerable hurdle on millennials’ path to economic independence and financial security. Student debt relief has become a priority in political discourse as more... read more
Education Research Report1 month ago
New research finds test scores, educational aspirations drop if children overuse non-educational technology
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Research News Middle-school aged children who use the internet, social media or video games recreationally for more than an hour each day during the school week have significantly lower grades and test scores, according to a study from the Center for Gambling Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. The findings appear in the journal *Computers in Human Behavior*. Researchers say the findings give parents and children a moderate threshold for using entertainment-related technology -- no more than one hour daily on school days and four hours a day on weeken... read more
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