Research that Counts

  • Michigan neo-liberalism: creating the material conditions for privatization
  • leading educational testing experts caution against heavy reliance on the use of test scores in teacher evaluation
  • It’s Worse Than I Thought
  • Public Media’s Impact on Young Readers: Time for a Fresh Look
  • The Common CoreStandards Initiative: An Effective Reform Tool?
  • The Medium Is the Medium
  • In Their Own Words: Looking at What Duncan and Company Are Up To
  • Children With Home Computers Likely to Have Lower Test Scores, Study Finds
  • Reading for Understanding Research Initiative
  • New Orleans Schools
  • Mouse Grimace Scale
  • MORE EVIDENCE for the power of access to books
  • Public Good vs. Private Profit: Imagine Schools, Inc. in Ohio
  • Stephen Krashen: Children need food, health care, and books. Not new standards and tests
  • Childhood According to Darwin
  • Early Childhood Experiences Have Lasting Emotional and Psychological Effects
  • Social inequality of reading literacy
  • National Standards Report Makes a Leap Too Far
  • LET’S DO THE NUMBERS: Department of Education’s Race to the Top Program Offers Only a Muddled Path to the Finish Line
  • New Research Shows that Prop 227 was a Mistake
  • What Counts as Credible Research?
  • 6th Annual César Chávez Education Conference
  • Standards and Criteria Redux
  • The Keys to a Successful Education System
  • Joint Statement of Early Childhood Health and Education Professionals on the Common Core Standards Initiative
  • Study: Millennial generation more educated, less employed
  • Retired Officers Raise Questions on Crime Data
  • Five Honorees of Bunkum Awards Announced for their Contributions to Sub-Par Education Research (2010-02-15)
  • New study looks at segregation in charter schools
  • Will Science Take the Field?
  • Review: Education Hell: Rhetoric vs. Reality
  • The Lancet retracts flawed autism study
  • Does the No Child Left Behind Act Help or Hinder K-12 Education?
  • Race to the Top: The Research Base
  • Test, Punish, and Push Out:: How Zero Tolerance and High-Stakes Testing Funnel Youth into the School to Prison Pipeline
  • Do You Have the ‘Right Stuff’ to Be a Doctor?
  • Access Living’s November 2009 critique of CPS budget has been ignored for too long… Critical review of how Chicago budgets for special education
  • Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them
  • Some Facts from Richard Rothstein
  • The Science of Success
  • Barbarians at the Schoolhouse
  • Bracey’s last report–trashing our educational assumptions
  • Headline-Grabbing Charter School Study Doesn’t Hold Up To Scrutiny
  • As Unemployment Rises, Kids’ Future Dims
  • The Bracey Report On the Condition of Public Education, 2009
  • Back to the Future? Performance-Related Pay, Empirical Research, and the Perils of Persistence
  • Study: No Shortage of U.S. Engineers
  • Report Questions Duncan’s Policy of Closing Failing Schools
  • Why Summers Matter in the Rich/Poor Achievement Gap
  • Why ‘Quality’ Care Is Dangerous
  • NCLB’s “School Restructuring” Won’t Raise Achievement
  • Physical Activity May Strengthen Children’s Ability To Pay Attention
  • Shoot-‘Em-Up Video Games Improve Vision
  • Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School
  • The Case For Libraries and Librarians
  • Music Education Can Help Children Improve Reading Skills
  • In Defense of Childhood
  • Blame for School Achievement Gap Misplaced
  • ‘Spin Cycle’ makes research vs. policy case on charter schools
  • Comments on Reading First: How to Save Billions and Improve Reading
  • Save the Whale Song
  • Mirrors Don’t Lie. Mislead? Oh, Yes.
  • FCAT third-grade reading law questioned
  • Inhuman Powers and Terrible Things: The Theory and Practice of Alienated Labor in Urban Schools
  • Inhuman Powers and Terrible Things: The Theory and Practice of Alienated Labor in Urban Schools
  • News Analysis: Pentagon’s New Social-Science Program Stirs Old Anxieties
  • Assessing What Matters
  • Poverty mars formation of infant brains
  • Taking Play Seriously
  • Why Traditional Stereotypes Don’t Help to Deal with Youth Crime
  • Avoidable Losses: High-Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
  • Hidden Trauma: Studies Cite Head Injuries s Factor in Some Social Ills