Education - All Reports and Products
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Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Report: CSRQ Center Report on Middle and High School Comprehensive School Reform Models
This consumer guide provides comparative ratings on the effectiveness and quality of 18 widely adopted middle and high school whole-school improvement models. This report continues the Comprehensive School Reform Quality (CSRQ) Center’s efforts to issue reports that help education decision makers sort through options for whole-school and district improvement.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Report: Early Reading and Mathematics Achievement of Children Who Repeated Kindergarten or Who Began School a Year Late
This Statistics in Brief examines the association between kindergarten enrollment status (e.g., repeating kindergarten or delaying entry into kindergarten) and children’s first grade reading and mathematics achievement, using data from the ECLS-K.
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Friday, August 25, 2006
Report: User’s Guide to Computing High School Graduation Rates, Volume 2
This report examines the existing measures of high school completion and the newly proposed proxy measures.
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Friday, August 25, 2006
Report: User’s Guide to Computing High School Graduation Rates, Volume 1
Documentation of the technical analysis used to select an interim graduation rate.
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Monday, August 21, 2006
Report: Age 2: ECLS-B
This First Look uses the second wave of data from the ECLS-B, a study of children born in the year 2001.
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Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Report: Qualifications of Public Secondary School History Teachers, 1999–2000
This Issue Brief reports the combination of certifications and majors and minors to which secondary-level history students are exposed and how these qualifications vary across schools with differing levels of student poverty, based on data from the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS).
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Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Report: Age 2: Findings From the 2-Year-Old Follow-up of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
This First Look uses the second wave of data from the ECLS-B, a study of children born in the year 2001. It provides descriptive information about these children when they were about 2 years old, presenting information on selected child and family characteristics.
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Friday, July 21, 2006
Report: Fathers of U.S. Children Born in 2001: Findings from ECLS-B
This First Look presents information about the biological fathers of children born in the United States in the year 2001.
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Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Report: Lessons & Recommendations From the Alabama Reading Initiative
As a leader in the adolescent literacy movement, Carnegie Corporation of New York asked AIR to conduct a descriptive study of the Alabama Reading Initiative in secondary schools, essentially to “tell the story” of how the secondary component of the Initiative has fared, especially amid decreased state funding for education in Alabama and the large-scale national and local attention to the needs of beginning readers. The report reflects the results of numerous interviews with students, teachers, school and state administrators, higher education faculty, and members of nonprofit organizations in Alabama.
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Thursday, June 1, 2006
Report: Arts Instruction of Public School Students in the First and Third Grades
This Issue Brief uses information from teachers to examine the changes over time from first to third grade in how often young children are exposed to arts education in the general classroom. The brief looks at differences in these characteristics by level of poverty and/or urbanicity of the school.
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Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Report: Early College High School Initiative: 2003-2005 Evaluation Report (2006)
This report is the second annual synthesis report on the national evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Early College High School Initiative.
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Monday, May 1, 2006
Report: Comparing Mathematics Content in NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA 2003
This report compares three mathematics assessments conducted in 2003, and aims to provide information useful for interpreting and comparing results from the three assessments, based on an in-depth look at the content of the frameworks and items.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
Report: How Are English Learners Faring Under Proposition 227?
To track the effects of Proposition 227, the California Department of Education commissioned a five-year evaluation of the proposition’s implementation and impact. This summary of the study undertaken by the American Institutes for Research and WestEd highlights the full report’s findings and recommendations.
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Saturday, April 1, 2006
Report: CSRQ Center Report on Education Service Providers
The CSRQ Center Report on Education Service Providers (ESPs) is a first-of-its-kind, scientifically based, and consumer-oriented review of the effectiveness and quality of seven widely implemented ESP models. ESPs provide a comprehensive approach to whole school improvement, including administrative services.
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Saturday, April 1, 2006
Report: The Relationship Between Nonschool Factors and Student Achievement on International Assessments
This Statistics in Brief examines the relationship between six nonschool factors and student achievement in countries that participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003. The nonschool factors were: highest level of education attained by either of the students’ parents; the highest occupational status of either of the students’ parents; the number of books that students have access to in the home; whether students speak the native language of the country at home; students’ immigrant status; and students’ family structure.
