The world's largest education research group said it will work to convert much of the annual meeting into a virtual experience for attendees and presenters.
A number of studies over the past decade offer best practices and solutions for making better use of time in the school day to aid student learning. Education Week honed in on several that have d...
Education Week: News and Information About Issues in Education for Educators
An educator's experience teaching math is important, but performance on math-content-certification tests is the best predictor of how well a teacher's students will perform in early algebra, find...
Education Week: News and Information About Issues in Education for Educators
Education Week: News and Information About Issues in Education for Educators
Reports from the parents of nearly 2,500 children and youths with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder found a gap between students with the most severe symptoms and those who get any school-...
Researchers examined nearly 22,000 pieces of class work in hundreds of schools. More than 70 percent of those assignments were below grade level, according to a new report from a teacher-training...
When I talk to doctoral students in education policy, I'm frequently struck by how little time they tell me they spend reading, thinking, or talking broadly about education.
A recap of recent research conducted by research-practice partnerships across the country reveals current high priority topics in education.
Understanding how research is actually used by district leaders is essential for research-practice partnerships to effectively bridge research and practice in education.
The Institute of Education Sciences, the research agency for the U.S. Education Department, put out calls for a bevy of new research projects for fiscal 2019,
A survey of educators around the country found that many reported looking up interventions on their own, when they really wanted more formal training, a survey found.
In response to Nonie K. Lesaux and Stephanie M. Jones' Commentary on early education's need for more exacting research ("Early-Childhood Research Is Out of Touch," Feb. 14, 2018), better research...
The Society for Research in Educational Effectiveness' annual conference here last week highlighted new ways the United States is learning from the United Kingdom both in research development and...
To better understand educational research, start by asking "who?" Who wrote the study; who published it; and who did the authors intend as their audience?
Most teachers and principals feel that their state classifies the "correct" number of students as needing special education, even when those percentages are higher or lower than the national aver...
When reading articles that reference empirical research, we need to examine how the author makes assumptions before considering the study as "proof."
As educators, we need to be critical consumers of educational research before assuming that findings present the "truth."
The Every Student Succeeds Act will give states and districts more authority to be creative in improving schools, but they will need support to use research and data effectively, according to a r...