Research that Counts 2

  • All Brains Are the Same Color
  • Cultivating Happiness
  • Those Who Would Be President Pontificate on Education
  • Improvement in Florida Schools Libraries Boosts FCAT Scores and Students Reading Abilities
  • Screening Tests To Identify Children With Reading Problems Are Being Misapplied, Study Shows
  • Teenage Brains Seem Set for Recklessness, Yet Tend to Avoid Risk
  • Are We Reading Less and Reading Worse? Probably Not.
  • Accelerated Reader: Once Again, Evidence Lacking
  • Lead exposure, crime seem to correlate
  • Bad Behavior Does Not Doom Pupils, Studies Say
  • Family Factors Critical to Closing Achievement Gap
  • The Science Education Myth
  • A Negative Report on Choice from a Free Market Group
  • Conflicting Studies About Private Management Not Conclusive
  • Reforms that could help NARROW the Achievement Gap
  • Please help us document the impact of high stakes tests on students’ and others’ lives
  • Key Component of NCLB Lacks Research Support
  • Return of the Deficit
  • Analysis of 2003 Released TAKS Reading Tests
  • The Other Adolescent Suicide
  • Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior
  • Free Reading
  • How Thinking Can Change the Brain: Dalai Lama Helps Scientists Show the Power of the Mind to Sculpt Our Gray Matter
  • On Being Sane In Insane Places
  • Student Ratings of Stressful Experiences at Home and School Loss of a Parent and Grade Retention as Superlative Stressors
  • Five Missing Pillars of Scientific Reading Instruction
  • NCLB Widens Achievement Gap – Getting the Message Out
  • Rocket Scientists Not as Smart as Originally Thought
  • Wisconsin Projections of Employment 2004 to 2014: Education and Training
  • Evidence on Education under NCLB (and How Florida Boosted NAEP Scores and Reduced the Race Gap)
  • Response to “March of the Pessimists”
  • Brief Intervention Improves Achievement of Students Subject to Negative Stereotyping, Study Finds
  • Life Events Thwart Scientists’ Attempts To Draw DNA Profiles
  • The New Common Sense of Education: Advocacy Research Versus Academic Authority
  • The Mismanagement of Reading First: Summary of Evidence, Part 2
  • The Mismanagement of Reading First: Summary of Evidence, Part 1
  • Review: Bracey, Gerald. W. (2006). Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered
  • Schooling, Statistics, and Poverty:; Can We Measure School Improvement?
  • EMO INDUSTRY CONSOLIDATING, RECONFIGURING TO MEET DEMAND FOR SES
  • Study hints AP classes overrated
  • Just Another Big Con: The Crisis in Mathematics and Science Education
  • High-Stakes Testing and Student Achievement: Does Accountability Pressure Increase Student Learning?
  • The Rotten Apples in Education Awards 2005
  • Who’s Who and What’s What: A Scoring Guide for NAEP, the Outfit Claiming to be The Nation’s Report Card
  • Part 2: How Does NAEP Label a Reader
  • Massachusetts Dropout Rates Rise in 2003-2004: Recommendations for Action
  • High School Reform: The Downside of Scaling-Up
  • Working families’ incomes often fail to meet living expenses around the U.S.
  • Data or Scare-Talk About American Schools?
  • Special Report: Reading First Under Fire: IG Targets Conflicts of Interest, Limits on Local Control
  • Study Finds ‘Trade-Off’ Between Financing National Merit Scholars and Enrolling Pell Grant Recipients
  • No Child Left Behind: Where Does the Money Go? Part 1
  • No Child Left Behind: Where Does the Money Go? Part 2
  • New Report Examines Local Impact of High School Exit Exams
  • The Effectiveness of Retention
  • The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators Through High-Stakes Testing
  • When Are Racial Disparities in Education the Result of Racial Discrimination? A Social Science Perspective
  • Teachers College Book Review: Why Is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools?
  • Scholars Respond to Scientific Research in Education Report
  • Research that Matters: Putting Testing to the Test
  • The Case for Late Intervention: Once a Good Reader, Always a Good Reader
  • What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers’ Habits
  • Second Time Around
  • School Size, Achievement, and Achievement Gaps
  • The Trouble With Research, Part 3
  • Kids Don’t Measure Friendship in Inches
  • The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker
  • Full Page Ad in The New York Times
  • What the Harvard Civil Rights project has to say about NCLB
  • “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.
  • Black Alliance for Educational Options: Community Voice or Captive of the Right?
  • The Testing Movement and Delayed Gratification
  • School Size — Bigger is Not Better
  • The Bias Question
  • Limits of High Stakes Testing
  • The Lexile Framework: Unnecessary and Potentially Harmful
  • New Ring Around Uranus Linked to Missing Tests
  • Attrition of Students from New York Schools
  • How Many Books Would $87 Billion Buy?
  • Wisconsin Education Program Reduces Class Size, Increasing Student Achievement
  • Constraining Elementary Teachers’ Work: Dilemmas and Paradoxes Created by State Mandated Testing
  • What You Need to Know About Just For Kids and Who’s Backing It
  • With Friends Like These Progressives, Who Needs to Worry About Conservatives?
  • IQ: The Most Complex–and Controversial–of All Complex Traits
  • Report on Early Childhood Development
  • Errors in Standardized Tests: A Systemic Problem
  • NAEP Achievement Levels: Inappropriate Statistics Unethically Used
  • Reading First Cautions and Recommendations
  • What Can Student Drawings Tell Us About High-Stakes Testing in Massachusetts?