Year: 2021

What Works Vs. What We Can Evaluate – by Nora Gordon

Policy researchers spend a lot of time talking about how little the research we spend our time generating gets applied in practice. While the statutory push in ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) for schools to use evidence may seem an elegant solution to this dilemma, it also poses a real risk that school leaders will feel pressure to choose approaches that have been easier to ...

– by Education Next

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) specifies that an institution must be accredited by a nationally recognized accreditor for students to receive federal student aid, but ED does not have the authority to directly manage the accreditors. Instead, the accreditor review process is conducted by ED staff and the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity...

Inspecting the Inspector General – by Jason D. Delisle

An adult undergraduate student signs up for an online college class and uses federal grant dollars to pay his tuition. After a few months, his instructor certifies that he completed the course. Taxpayer dollars were exchanged. Was enough education received in return? Enter the Office of Inspector General (OIG) from the U.S. Department of Education. An independent watchdog agenc...

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Volunteer One-on-One Tutoring Model for Early Elementary Reading Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial Replication Study

American Educational Research Journal, Ahead of Print. This study examines the impacts of two AmeriCorps programs, Minnesota Reading Corps and Wisconsin Reading Corps, where AmeriCorps volunteers provide literacy tutoring to at-risk kindergarten through third-grade (K–3) students utilizing a response-to-intervention framework.…

The Education Exchange: Impact of Magnet Schools in San Diego – by Education Next

In San Diego, one in ten students attends a magnet school, and because admission is sometimes determined by lottery, researchers have been able to study the impact of attending a magnet school on long-term outcomes. In this episode, Julian Betts of the University of California, San Diego joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss his research on magnet schools in San Diego. Betts is the...

EdStat: In the Five Years After Right-to-Work Reform, Union-Dues Revenue per Teacher Decreased by $316 in Wisconsin – by Education Next

A recent analysis by Bradley D. Marianno and Katharine Strunk shows that, over the course of the five years following right-to-work reform in Wisconsin, union-dues revenue per teacher had decreased by $316 relative to agency-shop states by the end of 2016. These figures suggest that, in states that adopted right-to-work laws, teachers unions lost power not only in numbers, but...