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Should Schools Embrace Social Emotional Learning?
Calls for schools to pay heed to children’s social and emotional learning have proliferated in recent years. Is the current enthusiasm for educating the “whole learner” a much-needed correction to the narrow concentration on academic skills in the modern reform era? Or is it a misguided retreat from academic rigor and an attempt to sidestep […]
Delineating the “duplicity of equality” in academic placement for African American families
The Duplicity of Equality: An Analysis of Academic Placement in a Racially Diverse School and a Black Community is the latest study by researcher and associate professor Richard Lofton, Jr., of the Center for Social Organization of Schools at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. This study explores how African American parents come to […]
Great American High School Campaign: Reforming the Nation’s Remaining Low-Performing High Schools
After more than a decade of progress in improving high school graduation rates, there remain about 1,300 traditional high schools in need of serious improvement and redesign, according to new research from the GradNation campaign. Among them are more than 800 low-graduation-rate high schools with an average graduation rate of 49 percent. From the inner […]
Data Matters: Using Chronic Absence to Accelerate Action for Student Success
Data Matters Using Chronic Absence to Accelerate Action for Student Success, by Hedy N. Chang, Lauren Bauer and Vaughan Byrnes, September 2018. This report provides a national and state analysis of how many schools face high levels of chronic absence and discusses the implications for state and local action. Based on data released by the […]
2018 Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates
The 2018 Building a Grad Nation report takes an in-depth look at the progress that was made between 2011 and 2016 in raising high school graduation rates and the state and district sources of those improvements, and identify where challenges remain. The report links improvements in high school graduation rates to the need to ensure […]
The effects of coaching on English teachers’ reading instruction practices and adolescent students’ reading comprehension
The effects of coaching on English teachers’ reading instruction practices and adolescent students’ reading comprehension Marcia H. Davis, James M. McPartland, Charlene Pryseski & Elizabeth Kim April 4, 2018 ABSTRACT Although the use of literacy coaches is becoming more common, few research studies have shown positive effects of coaching on teacher practices and student achievement. In the […]
A review of reading motivation scales
By Marcia H. Davis, Stephen M. Tonks, Michael Hock, Wenhao Wang, and Aldo Rodriguez January 2018 Reading motivation is a critical contributor to reading achievement and has the potential to influence its development. Educators, researchers, and evaluators need to select the best reading motivation scales for their research and classroom. The goals of this review […]
Improving College Readiness for Historically Underserved Students: The Role of the District Office
Improving College Readiness for Historically Underserved Students: The Role of the District Office By Martha Abele Mac Iver, Douglas J. Mac Iver, and Emily Clark December 2017 Research on the role of institutions in influencing students’ readiness for college has so far focused primarily on the school level and the state policy context, with only little attention to […]
Closing the College Gap: A Roadmap to Postsecondary Readiness and Attainment
In just over a decade, the nation witnessed a 77 percent increase in associate degrees and a 51 percent increase in bachelor’s degrees – debunking the notion that high school completion is not leading to college completion, according to new research from Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of […]
2014 Building a Grad Nation Report
This fifth annual update on America’s high school dropout crisis shows that, for the first time in history, the nation has crossed the 80 percent high school graduation rate threshold and remains on pace, for the second year in a row, to meet the goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate by the […]
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