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 Here you will find a wide range of research and reports that don't fit perfectly in one of the other Research/Issues topics. Posting here does not indicate Georgia Partnership endorsement. Here's an interesting resource if you are into blogging! Washington Post columnist Jay Matthews who writes an education column, "Class Struggles," has identified his 10 top education blogs that cover a wide range of subjects. Here is a local/state education blog, Maureen Downey's Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Get Schooled." The Educational Crisis Facing Young Men of Color This report cites "overwhelming barriers" for U.S. minority males in becoming educated and productive citizens, proposes national strategies to erase "disparities in educational attainment" and find "new ways of reaching the increasingly diverse U.S. student population." (February 2010) Foreign Language Teaching in U.S. Schools: Results of a National Survey The good news is there's some serious language training going on in our schools. The bad news it's almost all Spanish. (January 2010) 2009 DQC Annual Survey Results: Georgia At the Top Each year, DQC surveys all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to assess states’ progress toward implementing the 10 Essential Elements of a high-quality longitudinal data system. Georgia is one of only 11 states with a perfect record. (November 2009) Availability of Less Nutritious Snack Foods and Beverages in Secondary Schools ---Selected States, 2002--2008 Foods and beverages offered or sold in schools outside of U.S. Department of Agriculture school meal programs are not subject to federal nutrition standards and generally are of lower nutritional quality than foods and beverages served in the meal programs. (October 2009) Stars By Which to Navigate - Scanning National and International Standards in 2009 - An interim report on common core, NAEP, TIMSS and PISA A high-profile effort to establish common academic standards across states is far from complete, but an early blueprint earned a B grade in both language arts and math. (October 2009) Principles for Measuring the Performance of Turnaround Schools The Alliance proposes several principles for measuring the performance of schools involved in turnaround efforts. (September 2009) SREB States Maintain Lead in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs This report shows SREB states continue to lead the nation in student participation in AP and IB programs and are making long-term progress on passing rates for AP exams. (September 2009) Projections for Education Statistics to 2018 This is the 37th report in a series begun in 1964. It includes statistics on elementary and secondary schools and degree granting institutions. It provides alarming college enrollment numbers. (September 2009) Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success This pinpoints adolescent literacy as a cornerstone of the current education reform movement, upon which efforts such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act must be built. (September 2009) U.S. Performance Across International Assessments of Student Achievement This special analysis examines the performance of U.S. students in reading, mathematics and science compared with the performance of their peers in other countries that participated in PIRLS, PISA, and TIMSS. (August 2009) Average ACT Scores by State - Graduating Class 2009 This 2-page report shows state average ACT scores from the most recent graduating class. (August 2009) The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools This report examines the dimensions and economic impact of the education achievement gap (July2009) Is There a Plateau Effect in Test Scores? State Test Score Trends Through 2007-08, Part 2 This report, drawing from the CEP database of reading and math test results from all 50 states going back as far as 1999, calls the "Plateau Effect" phenomenon into question. (July 2009) Is the Emphasis on 'Proficiency' Shortchanging Higher- and Lower-Achieving Students? State Test Score Trends Through 2007-08, Part 1 This is the first in a series describing findings from a study of student achievement trends on state reading and math tests used for NCLB accountability. (June 2009, updated July) Gender Differences in the College and Career Aspirations of High School Valedictorians This study looked at high school valedictorians over a three year period to determine the differences in the choices made by male and female high achieving students. (First published summer 2008, posted here June 2009) Unlocking the Full Spectrum of Community Support - A briefing for school and district leaders Faced with unexpectedly severe budget cuts, school districts across the country have begun cutting expenses and shedding staff. Educators must look beyond the immediate crisis, analyze the future funding environment, and develop a strategy to thrive. (June 2009) The Nation's Report Card: Arts 2008 Music and Visual Arts About the same share of 8th graders attend schools where music and visual arts instruction are offered as a decade ago. (June 2009) Lessons Learned from Rural Schools “This study of high-performing Alabama schools in high-poverty areas is such an Turning Campaign Pillars Into Presidential Priorities This organization had a simple goal for its ED in ’08 campaign: Use The Condition of Education This required by law annual report includes 46 indicators in five major areas. (June 2009) Lost Opportunity: A 50 State Report on the Opportunity to Learn In America This is a state-by-state analysis of student performance data reported by state departments of education that determines the opportunity to learn in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (May 2009) Seclusion and Restraints - Selected cases of death and abuse at public and private schools and treatment centers Children with disabilities are being secluded and restrained against their will to control their behavior - interventions that have led to harm and, in rare cases, deaths. (May 2009) Building a High Quality Workforce - A Governor's Guide to Human Capital Development This report concludes governors should promote a higher-quality educator workforce by retooling state and local systems for recruiting, training and retaining talent. (May 2009) NAEP: 2008 Long-Term Trend Report Among the results: mathematics scores for 9 and 13-year-olds are higher than in all previous assessment years. (April 2009) The Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools The achievement gap between U.S. students and those in other nations -- and among different groups of students in the United States -- is a significant, long-term drag on the economy. Here is a relating opinion piece written by syndicated columnist Thomas Friedman. (April 2009) Private Capital and Public Education: Toward Quality and Scale This policy paper points out that despite a doubling of per-pupil funding over the past 15 years, U.S. schools have had scant improvement in productivity. (April 2009) America's Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness This report offers a comprehensive, state-by-state analysis of child homelessness, ranking the 50 states in terms of severity and what it means to our society. (April 2009) Education Watch: Tracking Achievement, Attainment, and Opportunity in Georgia's Public Schools This report assembles some of the most critical indicators of student achievement, attainment, and opportunity, providing a state-by-state snapshot of public education in America. The above link provides specific Georgia information. Click here for the overall report. (April 2009) Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries: 2009 This report describes how the education system in the United States compares with education systems in the other G-8 countries--Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom. Twenty-seven indicators are organized in five sections. (March 2009) The Educational Panopticon People who insult and denigrate teachers by forcing scripted curriculum on them are perfectly aware that they are forcing teachers to act against their conscience and students to close down their minds. What must be raised and answered for is the moral cost of creating joyless schools that resemble panopticons. (March 2009) Recent analyses challenge common wisdom regarding the superiority of private schools relative to public schools, raising questions about the role of school processes and climate in shaping achievement in different types of schools. Relating article in ScienceDaily. (March 2009) Obama-Biden Education Plan What is the new administration's plan to improve education in our country? This posting on the White House Web site spells it out. (February 2009) School Recess and Group Classroom Behavior This study of 8 and 9-year-olds clearly points out that the loss of recess has a detrimental impact in the classroom. (February 2009) Our Fading Heritage A study by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute finds that Americans are "alarmingly uninformed about the countrys history, founding principles, and economy. " (December 2008) Overcoming Inequality: Why Governance Matters A new report from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization argues that the failure of governments across the world to tackle deep and persistent inequalities in education is consigning millions of children to lives of poverty and diminished opportunity. (December 2008) Measuring What Matters States have come a long way in building longitudinal data systems, but dire budget conditions won't make it easy to finish them. States have a long way to go before they have the kinds of data systems that will help drive student improvement. (December 2008) Public Housing and Public Schools The first large-scale study to look at academic performance of children in New York City's public housing complexes finds that students in public housing are more likely to drop out of high school and less likely to graduate in four years than those who don't live in public housing. (November 2008) Rethinking Magnet Schools in a Changing Landscape Support for magnet schools has foundered nationwide even though they continue to shine compared to other types of public schools, including charters. Magnet programs, created to promote voluntary integration, have suffered court setbacks, stagnant federal funding and local budget cuts. (November 2008) Tough Choices Or Tough Times (Radical Makeover Called For) The country's education system needs a radical makeover because too many students are ill prepared to function in the modern global marketplace, which rewards creativity and technological competence over the most basic skills required in the past. (November 2008) How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. (November 2008) High School Parents Want Involvement Parents whose children attend high-performing schools said their schools do a far better job reaching out to them than did parents of children in low-performing schools. Still, the vast majority of parents believe it is important to be engaged in their child's education. (October 2008) Transforming the Federal Role in America’s Public Schools The alliance -- a partnership of 18 major national education associations -- has put forth six principles for "appropriate and constructive federal involvement in education." (October 2008) Math Skills In U.S. Suffer The United States is failing to develop students' math skills, especially among those who could excel at the highest levels. A major reason is that American culture does not highly value talent in math, and so discourages students from excelling in the field. (October 2008) Parents' Income, Education Affect Kids' Health - State by State Data It’s no surprise that children born to poor and uneducated parents are more likely to be in bad health and die as infants than children of the wealthy and educated. (October 2008) This federal report provides estimates of dropout and completion rates for 2006 and trends over the last three decades. (September 2008) In conjunction with the official 2008 athletic Olympics, the Institute ran an Education Olympics that pitted U.S. schools against their international competitors. (September 2008) How Georgia Exploded on the School Choice Scene. The conservative magazine takes a close look at how the school choice movement has gained momentum in Georgia. You will find the article on page 21. (August 2008) So you think that the quality of public education has major implications for your community. If that's your view, it is also the chief conclusion to be drawn from this broad review of the literature -- about 150 books and articles. (August 2008) Cleveland Metropolitan School District Human Ware Audit In the wake of a fatal shooting incident in a Cleveland school lin 2007, the city has received a set of recommendations on steps that the schools and community can take to improve the environment for students and teachers. (August 2008) Given Half a Chance: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males This report provides a new take on the troubling story of poor educational outcomes for black males. (August 2008) Paving the Path to the Urban School Principalship This Research and Policy Brief describes the principal pipeline through a focused review of the research. It shares findings from a series of four focus groups of 74 aspiring school principals and discusses the implications for policymakers and others who are working to improve the supply of high-quality principals. (August 2008) Achievement Gap: Why do Asian students generally get higher marks than Latinos? At the request of the Los Angeles Times, eight Latino and Asian students from the city's diverse Lincoln High School gathered recently to talk about what California State Superintendent Jack O'Connell has called a "racial achievement gap." (July 2008) Evaluating Online Learning - Challenges and Strategies for Success This is the department's first guide to evaluating K-12 online-learning programs. (July 2008) Gaining Momentum, Losing Ground This coalition of 16 of the nation's leading business organizations, has released this report assessing three years' progress in working towards the TAP goal of doubling the number of students earning bachelor's degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by 2015. (July 2008) America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well Being, 2008 This organization has released its annual report profiling the status of the nation's children and youth. (July 2008) Using testing data from all 50 states, this study addresses two key questions: has student achievement increased and have achievement gaps narrowed since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted in 2002. (July 2008) 2008 Goals for Education - Challenge to Lead - 2008 State Reports: What Progress Has Your State Made? These reports, customized for each state, provide information about SREB states' progress toward meeting the Challenge to Lead education goals. (July 2008) The Family: America's Smallest School If the United States is to reach our ambitious national education goals, we need to focus as much attention on the starting line as we do on the finish line. (June 2008) Diplomas Count 2008: School to College As the nation struggles to close its graduation gap, Diplomas Count 2008 examines states' efforts to forge stronger connections between precollegiate and postsecondary education. (June 2008) The study presents a comprehensive look at girls’ educational achievement during the past 35 years, paying special attention to the relationship between girls’ and boys’ progress. (June 2008) Beating the Odds - An Analysis of Student Performance and Achievement Gaps on State Assessments (Results from 2006-2007 School Year) This 8th annual analysis of state-mandated tests in 67 big city school districts in 37 states, reveals urban systems are continuing to improve in reading and math. (April 2008) What We Think - Parental Perceptions of Urban School Climate This report reveals findings of a survey of 10,270 parents in 112 urban schools from 17 states gauging perceptions about bullying; expectations of student success; influence of race; parental involvement; safety; and trust, respect and ethos of caring. (April 2008) A 'Nation at Risk' - 25 years later In 1983, A Nation at Risk misidentified what is wrong with our public schools and consequently set the nation on a school reform crusade that has done more harm than good. (April 2008) 2008 Special Focus Report: Trends in Infancy/Early Childhood and Middle Childhood Well-Being, 1994 - 2006 In a wide-ranging look at how children have fared in their first decade of life, this new study offers a promising picture of American childhood. (April 2008) Beating the Odds: The Real Challenges Behind the Math Achievement Gap - And What High Achieving Schools Can Teach Us About How to Close It One of the largest and most persistent inequities in the modern American education system is the gap in math achievement along income and race lines. (March 2008) Organized Communities, Stronger Schools Findings from this landmark six-year study reveal that sophisticated community organizing at the grassroots level produces major improvements in student achievement. (March 2008) High-risk Families Limit Participation in Out-of-School Activities Participation in an out-of-school program is related to better outcomes for children. (March 2008) Change It Up! According to this nationwide survey commissioned by the Girl Scouts of the USA, a majority of children and youths in the U.S. have little or no interest with achieving leadership roles when they become adults. (March 2008) Digest of Education Statistics (2007) The Center has released the latest edition. The report provides a wealth of information on American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. (March 2008) Learning, Arts, and the Brain In 2004, the Dana Arts and Cognition Consortium brought together cognitive neuroscientists from seven universities across the U.S. to grapple with the question why arts training has been associated with higher academic performance. (March 2009) How Well Are American Students Learning? This is the seventh edition of the Brown Center Report on American education. (March 2008) A Report Card on Comprehensive Equity The National Assessment of Educational Progress should be broadened to gauge how youths are faring on a range of academic, social, health and cultural indicators, contends this new report. (February 2008) Science and Engineering Indicators The United States remains the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, but its dominance is threatened by economic development elsewhere, particularly in Asia. (January 2008) Vouchers and Achievement. (No link. Story posted here in its entirety.) A review of existing research on private-school-voucher programs concludes that the additional achievement gains of voucher recipients tend to be small, and that many of those gains are not statistically significant. Tough Choices or Tough Times Here you will find the Executive Summary of this report that, according to an Education Week story, presents "its vision for what is ailing American education and how to fix it . . . it takes on virtually every sacred cow and special-interest group in the system." You will find information here that will direct you where you can purchase the full report. Other materials relating to the report, including various research reports done by the staff and others to support the work of the Commission, can be accessed through the Commission's Web site at www.skillscommission.org. |
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