July 27, 2011
The importance of teachers in promoting student achievement has been the topic of discussion in education circles for the past decade. During this period the role the principal plays in the building effective schools has received much less attention. The July 2011 release by Integrated Leadership Development Initiative and WestEd changes this by focusing on the principal with the publishing of paper on the available research for evaluating principal’s performance. Read More…
July 14, 2011
The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement released official results from their investigation into cheating on the state 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT). All public school students residing in the state of Georgia in grades 1-8 are required to take the CRCT in reading, English and math. Students in grades 3-8 also take science and social studies exams. Read More…
June 23, 2011
Combating absenteeism has become a major goal of public schools across America. Chronic absenteeism affects both the academic success of students and severely impacts the fiscal health of a school. Read More…
June 14, 2011
Across Europe, parents are paying privately to provide their children with enhanced “ shadow” education opportunities outside of the state-provided education. Parallel to public education systems in the European Union (EU) are shadow education systems of private supplementary tutoring. These have grown Read More…
May 11, 2011
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for 2010 reports that students of all ages have poor knowledge of how the democratic process works, Read More…
May 2, 2011
The Wing Institute is launching a new initiative to provide funding for graduate students who are interested in doing research in the area of evidence-based education.
The purpose of the initiative is to
- promote new research in areas of evidence-based education,
- promote new research across disciplines,
- encourage graduate students to focus their future professional work in this subject area
- disseminate research findings for application in “real world” settings, further bridging the gap between research and practice.
FUNDING
Grants vary in size; the maximum grant is $5,000 per annum. These funds will be available to recipients as they achieve agreed upon “benchmarks” in the research process.
Applications available: Immediately
Application deadline: June 15, 2011
Funding decisions: July 1, 2011
ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants must be enrolled full-time and be in good standing in a masters or doctoral at a regionally accredited university or college located in the United States or Canada.
Download the application
February 28, 2011
The Supreme Court declined to hear the state of Connecticut’s challenge to the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The state of Connecticut’s lawsuit alleged the federal government could not require states to spend money on No Child Left Read More…
January 28, 2011
On January 24, 2001, The U.S. Department of Education launched a website designed to provide the public with access to key education data, The United Read More…
January 28, 2011
The publisher of the famous and much-debated college ratings, announced on January 18, 2011 a project to review and rate teacher education in all the nation’s 1,400 schools of education. The schools will be reviewed against 19 standards but actually graded on 17 of the standards. Alternative teacher credential programs associated with institutions of higher education will be reviewed. Credential programs such as Teach For America or district created programs that operate independently of educational schools will not be included in the evaluation.
http://www.nctq.org/edschoolreports/national/
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2011/01/nctq_us_news_announce_joint_te.html
October 27, 2010
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In June 2010 the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) expanded its definition of “gold standard” to include regression-discontinuity research designs. This comes within days of WWC adding Single-Subject Design to the US Department of Education’s list of acceptable methods for establishing the efficacy of educational practices.
Regression discontinuity (RD) designs are increasingly used as an effective method to obtain unbiased estimates of the effects of education-related interventions. The method is used as an alternative random assignment to form comparison groups that uses a cutoff point to assign the intervention to study units (for example, school districts, schools, or students). The report provides criteria under which these designs Meet WWC Evidence Standards.
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