For more than three decades, grades in American schools and colleges have been going up, up, up. A’s are more common. Failure is rarer than it once was.
A new study from Sakib Mahmud of Florida State University finds that compulsory retention of underperforming third-grade students does not, on its own…
Immigration enforcement has been a central priority for the Trump Administration. As immigration arrests have surged, both test scores and disciplinary…
“The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better” by Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop examines why many students are disengaged…
Student achievement is typically reported as an aggregate test score, obscuring how students perform across individual concepts and skills. A new study by Jesse…
Research Notes: Helping Teachers Help Students, Inexpensively A new study led by behavior psychologist David Yeager at the University of Texas at Austin…
Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with…
