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The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation
Does teacher subject-matter knowledge affect student achievement? Metzler and Woessmann (2012) find an affirmative answer. Abstract Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal … Continue reading
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Tagged education, student achievement, teacher subject knowledge
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How Do Soldiers’ Deployments Affect Children’s Academic Performance and Behavioral Health?
The costs of America’s wars take many forms. Here’s a summary of a study examining the affect of soldiers’ deployment on children’s academic performance. “Children whose parents have deployed for a total of 19 months or more since 2001 have … Continue reading
Higher Ed and High School Faculty Differ on Students’ Readiness for College
Via Inside Higher Ed “A new survey from ACT shows the continued gap between those who teach in high school and those who teach in college when it comes to their perceptions of the college preparation of today’s students. Nearly … Continue reading
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Tagged ACT, college, high school, preparation, readiness, student achievement
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2013 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning?
“This is the twelfth edition of the Brown Center Report. The structure of the report remains the same from year to year. Part I examines the latest data from state, national, or international assessments. This year the focus is on … Continue reading
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Tagged math, PIRLS, reading, science.ability grouping, secondary education, student achievement, TIMSS, tracking
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Do School Districts Matter?
Given all the attention on low and high performing school districts one might assume they are major factors accounting for the variance in student achievement. Not so, according to a new and important piece of research from the Brown Center on … Continue reading
Study: Effective Teachers Matter
Via Spyros Konstantopoulos Background/Context: One important question to educational research is whether teachers can influence student achievement over time. This question is related to the durability of teacher effects on student achievement in successive grades. The research evidence about teacher … Continue reading
Most Important Chart of 2012: Great Teachers Produce Desired Outcomes
The Wonkblog asked a number of noted experts in diverse fields to submit graphs that best explained 2012. As education is key to so many issues we face I recommend Raj Chetty’s nomination as the most important submission. I was … Continue reading
Want to be an Elite in England? Graduate from an Elite School or College
Ten private schools in Britain produce a tenth of the country’s elite. From the Sutton Trust: “Just ten prestigious private schools produced over ten per cent of the country’s professional elites, according to a new report published today by the … Continue reading
Long-Term Impact of Good Teachers
Does having a good teacher have long-term effects on student outcomes? The answer, according to a sophisticated study tracking over 1 million students from a large urban school district from fourth grade into adulthood, is a resounding affirmative answer. The authors … Continue reading