R&R: December Research & Reports
Published: December 9, 2004
Listening to Teachers: Classroom Realities and No Child Left Behind
This survey by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University shows that while teachers often agree with the goals of NCLB, they question whether the federal law is negatively impacting underperforming schools.
Developments in School Finance: 2003
This report from the National Center for Education Statistics contains a number of scholarly papers about teacher turnover, financing urban schools, the costs of improving student performance, distinguishing good schools from bad in principle and practice, an evaluation of the efficacy of state adequacy and equity indicators, school finance reform in Vermont, and school accountability.
ERIC database back online
The Educational Resources Information Center has been streamlined and reorganized to provide fuller and easier access to 1.1 million reports, articles, speeches, hearings and other documents. Improvements will include a new searching and sorting system and access to the full text of all documents entered in the library since 1993.
Exceptional Returns: Investment in Early Childhood Development
This study from the Economic Policy Institute demonstrates that providing all of the nation’s 3- and 4-year-olds living in poverty with a high-quality early childhood development program would have a substantial payoff for governments and taxpayers in the future.
Assessment of Diversity in America’s Teaching Force
This analysis by the National Collaborative on Diversity in the Teaching Force examined the relationship between educational achievement and teacher diversity and found that increasing the percentage of teachers of color in classrooms is connected directly to closing the achievement gap.