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Oklahoma A+ Schools/University of Central Oklahoma. Five-year evaluation study on the effectiveness of A+ arts-integrated school reform strategies in Oklahoma s...
Hours after starting my blog, I heard from Jerry Bracey. If you are an education reporter at any sizable media outlet and never heard from Jerry Bracey, I am su...
Expressing wariness about the industry makes one feel a little classist, as for-profit administrators say that they take the students nobody wants...
This overview of women in STEM lays out the major trends in employment, pay, job retention, types of degrees earned, and so on....
This reports notes that “traditional higher education programs and policies are not well designed for the needs of adult learners, most of whom are ‘employe...
This report from the commission former U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings assembled is arguably the starting point for the current higher education ref...
This 2006 paper from University of Chicago economist James Heckman summarizes the research on the effects of early environments on child, adolescent and adult a...
This study reaches a startling conclusion: “Based on 2005 ACT-tested high school graduates, it appears that only about half of our nation’s ACT-tested high ...
No study has been used to back up the lasting social and economic benefits of high-quality preschool for low-income children more than the HighScope Perry Presc...
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