College-Going Culture in High Schools: How Schools Shape Student Aspirations
High school environments significantly shape whether students believe college is a realistic option for them. Creating supportive college-going cultur...
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Summer Learning Loss and How to Address It
Students from low-income households lose significantly more academic ground over summer than their more advantaged peers. The gap is real, cumulative,...
The Hidden Curriculum: What Schools Teach Without Trying
Beyond syllabi and standards, schools transmit values, expectations, and social norms. Understanding the hidden curriculum is essential for anyone ser...
Standardized Testing in K-12 Schools: Evidence, Equity, and Reform
Standardized tests are among the most debated tools in American education. Understanding the evidence on their uses, limitations, and equity implicati...
School Funding Inequity: How Money Flows and Who It Misses
American schools are funded primarily through local property taxes, a design that produces some of the most inequitable educational resource distribut...
Online Education Has Grown Up. Here's What That Means.
The pandemic forced remote learning on everyone. What stayed behind was a fundamentally different understanding of what online education can and canno...
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Research on Practice, Evidence, and Implementation
Culturally responsive teaching has become a prominent framework in education. Research on its theoretical foundations and effectiveness offers a basis...
Arts Education and Student Outcomes: What Research Shows
Arts programs in schools are frequently the first target of budget cuts. But decades of research suggest that arts education does far more for student...
The Science of Retrieval Practice and Why Studying Smarter Beats Studying More
Re reading notes is one of the least effective study strategies known to cognitive science. Retrieval practice, the act of recalling information, is...
Physical Education and Student Health: What Research Shows About Movement and Learning
Physical education is frequently cut when school budgets tighten. Research on the relationship between physical activity, brain function, and academic...