K-12
Making Summer Count: How Summer Programs Can Boost Children’s Learning
A new study from the RAND Corporation, examines students’ loss of knowledge and educational skills during the summer months. The study, commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, finds that this loss is cumulative over the course of a student’s career and further widens the achievement gap.
Double Jeopardy: How Third Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation (Updated March 2012)
A national study initially released in April 2011 shows that students who do not read proficiently by third grade are four times more likely to leave high school without a diploma than proficient readers. A March 2012 update goes beyond family income levels to explore the connection between living in concentrated poverty, third-grade reading skills and graduation.
PreK-Grade 3: Which Reading and Literacy Practices Matter Most?
The Education Commission of the States released a compilation of research studies that address reading and literacy in grades PreK through third grade.
Professional Development in the United States: Trends and Challenges
This technical report from the National Staff Development Council and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education finds that while new teachers are benefitting from more induction services, teachers overall have less access to sustained professional development than they did a few years ago. The report is the second part of a larger study, which includes A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States.
Quality Counts on Common Standards
The annual report from Education Week puts the Common Core State Standards effort into historical context, while also providing state-by-state details on standards and achievement. Backers of the latest high-profile push for common standards believe it can succeed where previous national standards efforts have failed, partly because it comes at standards from a different direction.
The annual Diplomas Count report from Education Week looks at the challenges facing many students and districts and how schools are using data to help ore students finish high school and earn diplomas.
One in 10 kindergarten and first grade students misses a month or more of school every year, absences that correlate with poor academic performance in later years, according to “Present, Engaged & Accounted For: The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades,” from the National Center for Children in Poverty.
Managed by: The Hatcher Group