Research
Recent research concluded that teachers do continue to improve professionally the more experienced they become. Think Again: Do the Returns to Teacher Experience Fizzle Out? explores the conditions needed to foster ongoing growth and how the field can retain more seasoned educators.
The article “Cumulative exposure to urban heat can affect the learning capacity of students and penalize the vulnerable and low-income young population: A systematic review,” which was recently published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLOS Climate, considered seven studies spanning 61 countries and roughly 14.5 million students on the subject as communities around the globe continue to face more extreme climate-related event.
Sending personalized messages to families is a relatively affordable strategy that can aid in reducing the number of school days missed, according to the working paper “Lifting Up Attendance in Rural Districts: A Multi-Site Trial of a Personalized Messaging Campaign.”
A new report by the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools evaluates the success of scaling up California’s Multi-Tiered System of Support (CA MTSS) initiative. Scaling Equity: Unfulfilled Promises and Lessons From California’s MTSS Initiative evaluates the Phase 2 expansion, which was centered on […]
Sixty-two percent of the 1,060 U.S. teens ages 13-17 who participated in a recent survey said that graduating college is extremely or very important to them, however, being able to pursue what they enjoy (82 percent), having a good standard of living (81 percent), a successful career (80 percent) and owning a home (72 percent) were top priorities.
While school boards grapple with increased rates of hostility toward their members, they are concerned with the negativity’s potential spillover effects on students, according to the report Mitigating Threats Against School Board Officials: Mixed Methods Research to Understand and Respond to Rising Hostility — released in July by the Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI), a nonpartisan research initiative at Princeton University.
While most adults don’t view preparing students to be engaged citizens as the top goal for K-12 education, new survey results from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) show that for majorities of Californians and public school parents, civic education is still considered a […]
In a follow-up report to two recently released fact sheets detailing college access and readiness throughout the state, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) homed in on pathways to college completion in the Inland Empire. While the region has a higher share of children […]
CSBA’s Research and Education Policy Development (REPD) team released on June 17 a new brief focusing on LGBTQ students as part of its Students in Focus series, which features briefs and fact sheets related to the educational needs of various student groups. Of the 3.2 […]
Research shows that teachers who obtain their credentials from preparation programs that provide extensive student teaching are more effective and stay in the profession longer than teachers prepared on faster tracks. A new report from Educator Registered Apprenticeship (ERA) Intermediary, with the support of WestEd, […]
