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REPORT: FUTURE OF THE INTERNET, CLOUD COMPUTING - The future of cloud computing

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Tuesday June 15 2010, 10:50 PM

[The future of cloud computing Technology experts and stakeholders say they expect they will ‘live mostly in the cloud’ in 2020 and not on the desktop, working mostly through cyberspace-based applications accessed through networked devices. This will substantially advance mobile connectivity through smartphones and other internet appliances. Many say there will be a cloud-desktop hybrid. Still, cloud computing has many difficult hurdles to overcome, including concerns tied to the availability of broadband spectrum, the ability of diverse systems to work together, security, privacy, and quality of service. ] Janna Quitney Anderson, Elon University; Lee Rainie, Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

On the Leakage of Personally Identi?able Information Via Online Social Networks

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Wednesday June 02 2010, 10:01 PM

Balachander Krishnamurthy and Craig E. Wills - [Abstract For purposes of this paper, we de?ne “Personally identi?- able information” (PII) as information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity either alone or when combined with other information that is linkable to a speci?c individual. The popularity of Online Social Net- works (OSN) has accelerated the appearance of vast amounts of personal information on the Internet. Our research shows that it is possible for third-parties to link PII, which is leaked via OSNs, with user actions both within OSN sites and else- where on non-OSN sites. We refer to this ability to link PII and combine it with other information as “leakage”. We have identi?ed multiple ways by which such leakage occurs and discuss measures to prevent it.]

InterPARES

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Sunday April 18 2010, 8:42 PM

[The International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) aims at developing the knowledge essential to the long-term preservation of authentic records created and/or maintained in digital form and providing the basis for standards, policies, strategies and plans of action capable of ensuring the longevity of such material and the ability of its users to trust its authenticity. InterPARES has developed in three phases:]

How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies?

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Thursday April 15 2010, 6:12 PM

Chris Jay Hoofnagle - University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; Jennifer King -UC Berkeley School of Information; Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; Su Li- University of California, Berkeley- School of Law, Center for the Study of Law and Society; Joseph Turow - University of Pennsylvania - Annenberg School for Communication: [Abstract: Media reports teem with stories of young people posting salacious photos online, writing about alcohol-fueled misdeeds on social networking sites, and publicizing other ill-considered escapades that may haunt them in the future. These anecdotes are interpreted as representing a generation-wide shift in attitude toward information privacy. Many commentators therefore claim that young people “are less concerned with maintaining privacy than older people are.” Surprisingly, though, few empirical investigations have explored the privacy attitudes of young adults. This report is among the first quantitative studies evaluating young adults’ attitudes. It demonstrates that the picture is more nuanced than portrayed in the popular media. ] [Among the findings: _ Eighty-eight percent of people of all ages said they have refused to give out information to a business because they thought it was too personal or unnecessary. Among young adults, 82 percent have refused, compared with 85 percent of those over 65. _ Most people — 86 percent — believe that anyone who posts a photo or video of them on the Internet should get their permission first, even if that photo was taken in public. Among young adults 18 to 24, 84 percent agreed — not far from the 90 percent among those 45 to 54. _ Forty percent of adults ages 18 to 24 believe executives should face jail time if their company uses someone's personal information illegally — the same as the response among those 35 to 44 years old.]

Teens and Sexting

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Monday December 21 2009, 9:39 AM

Pew Internet -- Amanda Lenhart, Senior Research Specialist -- December 15, 2009. [Overview In a nationally representative survey of those ages 12-17 conducted on landline and cell phones, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found: • 4% of cell-owning teens ages 12-17 say they have sent sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of themselves to someone else via text messaging • 15% of cell-owning teens ages 12-17 say they have received sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of someone they know via text messaging on their cell phone. • Older teens are much more likely to send and receive these images; 8% of 17-year-olds with cell phones have sent a sexually provocative image by text and 30% have received a nude or nearly nude image on their phone. • The teens who pay their own phone bills are more likely to send “sexts”: 17% of teens who pay for all of the costs associated with their cell phones send sexually suggestive images via text; just 3% of teens who do not pay for, or only pay for a portion of the cost of the cell phone send these images. • Our focus groups revealed that there are three main scenarios for sexting: 1) exchange of images solely between two romantic partners; 2) exchanges between partners that are shared with others outside the relationship and 3) exchanges between people who are not yet in a relationship, but where at least one person hopes to be.]

DOD nixes vendor of online monitoring software over privacy concerns

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Monday December 07 2009, 8:53 PM

Jaikumar Vijayan writes [In September, EPIC, a Washington-based privacy advocacy group, filed a complaint against EchoMetrix with the Federal Trade Commission. EPIC claimed that EchoMetrix was violating the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personally identifiable information about children and their browsing habits and online chats. EPIC claimed that EchoMetrix used the information to deliver targeted advertising to children and also sold that information to third-party marketers. In its complaint, EPIC pointed to a separate service offered by EchoMetrix called Pulse, which analyzes data gathered from multiple sources including instant messages, blogs and chat rooms. The information is sold as market research intelligence to marketing companies, the EPIC complaint said.] [

SPITZER PPRA LAWSUIT RE: SALE OF STUDENT INFORMATION

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Friday October 30 2009, 10:15 AM

Parties Subject to Order ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that this Consent Order and Judgment shall extend to Student Marketing Group, Inc. (“SMG”) and Educational Research Center of America, Inc. (“ERCA”), their successors, assignees, officers, agents, representatives, affiliates and employees and any other person under their direction or control, whether acting individually or in concert with others or through any corporate entity or device through which they may now or hereafter act or conduct business (collectively “respondents”).

Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities that Enable It

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Monday October 05 2009, 7:01 PM

[First, federal legislation ought to require all websites to integrate the P3P protocols into their privacy policies. That will provide a web-wide computerreadable standard for websites to communicate their privacy policies automatically to people’s computers. Visitors can know immediately when they get to a site whether they feel comfortable with its information policy. An added advantage of mandating P3P is that the propositional logic that makes it work will force companies to be straightforward in presenting their positions about using data. It will greatly reduce ambiguities and obfuscations about whether and where personal information is taken. · Second, federal legislation ought to mandate data-flow disclosure for any entity that represents an organization online. The law would work this way: When an internet user begins an online encounter with a website or commercial email, that site or email should prominently notify the person of an immediately accessible place that will straightforwardly present (1) exactly what information the organization collected about that specific individual during their last encounter, if there was one; (2) whether and how that information was linked to other information; (3) specifically what other organizations, if any, received the information; and (4) what the entity expects will happen to the specific individual’s data during this new (or first) encounter. Some organizations may then choose to allow the individuals to negotiate which of forthcoming data-extraction, manipulation and sharing activities they will or won’t allow for that visit. · Third, the government should assign auditing organizations to verify through random tests that both forms of disclosure are correct—and to reveal the results at the start of each encounter. The organizations that collect the data should bear the expense of the audits. Inaccuracies should be considered deceptive practices by the Federal Trade Commission. The three proposals follow the widely recognized Federal Trade Commission goals of providing users with access, notice, choice, and security over their information. Companies will undoubtedly protest that these activities might scare people from allowing them to track information and raise the cost of maintaining databases about people online. One response is that people, not the companies, own their personal information. Another response is that perhaps consumers’ new analyses of the situation will lead them to conclude that such sharing is not often in their benefit. If that happens, it might lead companies that want to retain customers to change their information tracking-and-sharing approaches. The issues raised here about citizen understanding of privacy policies and data flow are already reaching beyond the web to the larger digital interactive world of personal video recorders (such as TiVo), cell phones, and personal digital assistants. At a time when technologies to extract and manipulate consumer information are becoming ever-more complex, citizens’ ability to control their personal information must be both more straightforward and yet more wide-ranging than previously contemplated.]Turow, Joseph, King, Jennifer, Hoofnagle, Chris Jay, Bleakley, Amy and Hennessy, Michael, Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities that Enable It (September 29, 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1478214

Senate Resolution Pushes for Public Release of CRS Reports

Date Captured	Friday May 08 2009, 7:11 PM
[A Briefing On Public Policy Issues Affecting Civil Liberties Online from The Center For Democracy and Technology Senate Resolution Pushes for Public Release of CRS Reports 1) Senators Introduce Resolution to Make Congressional Research Public 2) Public Access to CRS Reports Limited by CRS Policies 3) Senate Resolution 118 Improves on Previous Resolution]

ELSI Panel Addresses Genomics Consent and Privacy at CSHL

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Friday May 08 2009, 7:06 PM

GenomeWeb Daily News -- Andrea Anderson-- [For instance, some have expressed concern that even de-identified genetic data could be linked to study participants. Last August, the National Institutes of Health pulled their GWAS data from public databases in response to research suggesting that it might be possible to identify an individual from pooled genetic data. There has also been a great deal of discussion about what information participants should get back from such studies as well as researchers' responsibility for informing subjects about incidental findings. ]

Why privacy plays a part in social network's fiscal future

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Wednesday April 01 2009, 4:26 PM

By C.g. Lynch , CIO , 04/01/2009 [The common assumption that social networking users don't care about privacy is misguided. The majority of people who use social networks (nearly 60 percent or more) have already modified their privacy settings, according to two separate research studies from the Pew Internet & American Life Project and School of Information and Library Science. Furthermore, privacy experts warn that an unfortunate (but perhaps inevitable) security breach that exposes user data over social networks in the coming years could cause a privacy tipping point in which users push back in a more substantive and widespread way.]

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

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Wednesday February 25 2009, 3:27 PM

EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. EPIC publishes an award-winning e-mail and online newsletter on civil liberties in the information age – the EPIC Alert. EPIC also publishes reports and even books about privacy, open government, free speech, and other important topics related to civil liberties.

Health care meets social networking

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Thursday January 22 2009, 3:59 PM

Jacksonville Business Journal - Kimberly Morrison -- [Mayo Clinic, which has a campus in Jacksonville, has come a long way in just a few years, since adding a Facebook page with more than 3,000 friends, a YouTube channel with videos of doctors talking about illness, treatments and research, a health blog for consumers and another for media to improve the process of medical reporting. It’s also creating “secret groups” on Facebook to connect patients to others with similar illnesses, an area it hopes to expand in the future. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg in the brave new world of Health 2.0.]

What Every American Needs to Know about the HIPAA Medical Privacy Rule* -- Updated November 2008

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Sunday January 18 2009, 9:39 PM

By Sue A. Blevins, president of the Institute for Health Freedom and Robin Kaigh, Esq., an attorney dedicated to patients’ health privacy rights. [Did you know that under the federal HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) medical privacy rule, your personal health information—including past records and genetic information—can be disclosed without your consent to large organizations such as the following? Data-processing companies; Insurers; Researchers (in some instances); Hospitals; Doctors (even those not treating you); Law enforcement officials; Public health officials; Federal government.

Bullies Worse than Predators On Social Networks

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Sunday January 18 2009, 7:26 PM

Wired -- Kim Zetter - [encounters online often engage in risky behaviors or come from environments that make them more susceptible to risks, such as environments where there is little adult supervision or where there is drug abuse or physical and mental abuse. "Those who are most at risk often engage in risky behaviors and have difficulties in other parts of their lives. The psychosocial makeup of and family dynamics surrounding particular minors are better predictors of risk than the use of specific media or technologies," the report says. The report also says that although cyberbullying is a greater problem than predators, there is no evidence that bullying has increased because of social networking sites and that bullying still occurs more often offline than online, although social networking sites have created another avenue for expressing it. The report, titled "Enhancing Child Safety & Online Technologies," was commissioned by the National Association of Attorneys General, which is trying to determine the best way to combat cyberthreats against minors. It was produced by a task force headed by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and is based on reviews of existing research in the area, of which the task force says there's a paucity, as well as an examination of existing tools that offer online safety features.]

Ad groups to develop voluntary marketing privacy guidelines

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Wednesday January 14 2009, 7:46 PM

Daily News Alert - [The announcement of the joint effort took place on the same day that two consumer advocacy groups, the Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, asked the FTC to investigate behavioral targeting practices aimed at users of mobile phones and requested regulations to make it easier for mobile phone users to control how information about them is used.]

Matt Blaze's EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH

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Sunday December 28 2008, 3:21 PM

Cryptography blog and links to research. University of Pennsylvania. Matt bio excerpt [I coined the term, and am one of the inventors of, Trust Management, which provides the abstract layer in which a system decides whether to allow some potentially dangerous action. This work has led to two trust management languages, KeyNote and PolicyMaker, that provide tools for specifying policy, delegating authority, and controlling access. In addition to providing a useful framework for studying and proving security properties of distributed systems, our tools have been used to build powerful policy control mechanisms into several important applications, including the OpenBSD IPSEC implementation.]

For your eyes only -- DHS develops privacy guidelines for Science and Technology Directorate

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Thursday December 25 2008, 4:13 PM

Kathleen Hickey -- Special to GCN -- [DHS’ "Principles for Implementing Privacy Protections in S&T Research" will incorporate privacy protections into sensitive research conducted by the directorate, while allowing it to provide advanced tools, technologies and systems related to homeland security. DHS also has established a Privacy Office to address these concerns. An example of research affected by the new privacy rules is the development of new physical screening technologies.]

Integrating Cyberinfrastructure Resources to Support Research

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Saturday December 13 2008, 6:41 PM

EDUCAUSE Live! December 18, 2008 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour Many helpful insights emerge from ECAR's June 2008 research study report, Higher Education IT and Cyberinfrastructure: Integrating Technologies for Scholarship. Join us for an interactive session with study author Mark C. Sheehan and discover a suite of practices that the most successful institutions use to meet the needs of their research communities.

In-Depth Summary of Changes to FERPA Rules

Date Captured	Thursday December 11 2008, 7:54 PM

2008 Data Mining Report

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Monday December 08 2008, 6:18 PM

This report describes DHS programs that meet the definition of data mining required by the Congress in Section 804 of the 9/11 Commission Act, entitled the Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act, and summarizes the Privacy Office’s public workshop, Implementing Privacy Protections in Government Data Mining, which was held on July 24-25, 2008. The Report also presents principles for implementing privacy protections in research projects conducted by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), the Department’s primary research and development arm. The Principles, which were developed jointly by the Privacy Office and S&T, provide guidance for incorporating privacy protections into privacy-sensitive S&T research and development projects in a manner that supports the DHS mission. [As the Privacy Office’s Data Mining Workshop demonstrated, the term “data mining” can mean different things to different people. One thing is clear, however: regardless of how data mining is defined, data mining research that uses PII can have significant impacts on individual privacy, and those impacts must be addressed. The Department has taken a major step toward this goal by developing its Principles for Implementing Privacy Protections for Research Projects, which will be embedded in new research projects carried out by S&T, whether they involve data mining or not. The Privacy Office looks forward to collaborating with S&T to implement these Principles, so that research critical to the Department’s mission is carried out in a manner that sustains individual privacy.]

Vermont to study student privacy policies

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Thursday June 12 2008, 4:14 PM

Reformer reports, "The state (Vermont) board is also going to consider how the education department handles third party research requests on behalf of the education department using student data. Under the proposed change, the department information technology team would classify data as sensitive and confidential, and a written contract would have to be signed before the release of records. A third proposed policy spells out how organizations that contract with the education department go about obtaining student information for their work."

Mobile phones demystify commuter rat race

Date Captured	Saturday June 07 2008, 5:04 PM
Blog responds to this controversial academic research.

Huge Databases Offer a Research Gold Mine — and Privacy Worries

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Tuesday June 03 2008, 8:14 PM

By DAVID GLENN from the issue dated May 9, 2008 Chronicle of Higher Education, "Researchers have used the new databases to study many issues, including which high-school math courses are most important for college success and how exposure to adjunct instructors affects student retention. But the new education databases create obvious challenges for protecting student privacy — which is one reason most states have been slow to build them. Florida's education department takes elaborate steps to 'de-identify' its information before handing it to outside researchers. Despite those efforts, nervous officials in other states look at a system like Florida's and worry about potential violations of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or Ferpa. In March the U.S. Department of Education proposed new Ferpa regulations that might clarify the ground rules for the use of such databases, but it is far from certain that the new rules will make states more comfortable with the projects." http://chronicle.com -- Section: The Faculty -- Volume 54, Issue 35, Page A10

Comments regarding the FTC Town Hall Meeting on Behavioral Advertising, Ehavioral Advertising: Tracking, Targeting, and Technology

Date Captured	Monday June 02 2008, 10:39 PM
By Center for Digital Democracy, Center for Democracy and Technology, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of America, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Privacy Times, Public Information Research, World Privacy Forum:

The Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic

Date Captured	Monday June 02 2008, 6:34 PM
The Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley Law provides an opportunity for law students and graduate students to represent clients and conduct interdisciplinary research.

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

Date Captured	Sunday June 01 2008, 5:31 PM
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.

Department Of Defense Awards $2.1 M Grant To Stony Brook’s Computer Science Department

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Friday August 24 2007, 4:20 PM

The project will develop languages, techniques and tools for managing, enforcing, and maintaining trust relationships in systems with service-oriented architectures. The techniques will be implemented as stand-alone tools and integrated into a prototype system that will be an experimental test-bed for evaluation of the techniques. The framework will accommodate services that interact across a variety of interfaces, including network communication channels, shared memory, and shared databases. Therefore, it will apply to many legacy systems as well as explicitly service-oriented systems such as Web services. The project will focus on issues of trust management, information flow tracking, trust analysis and assurance, and policy enforcement.

State to select a new historian

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Monday August 20 2007, 9:30 AM

Times Union reports, "The new hire will chair the 12-member history department at the State Museum and help market its assets. The state historian will also oversee curatorial services, including managing $20 million in planned upgrades to the State Museum's exhibits, according to John P. Hart, director of the research and collections division at the State Museum. The job will include a key role in planning and construction of a $100 million storage facility to house the State Museum's collections."

US Department of Education -- Office of Inspector General (OIG) Perspective on the Unsafe School Choice Option

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Friday August 10 2007, 8:14 AM

We suggest that the Department and Congress, in considering legislative changes, require states to ensure that their USCO policies meet the following basic requirements: 1) All violent incidents, according to state code, are factored into the PDS determination, without the use of disciplinary action qualifiers; 2) Benchmarks for determining PDS are set at reasonable levels that are supported by objective and reliable data; and 3) PDS are identified based upon the most current year of data. These suggestions are intended to affect immediate improvement of the USCO in its current state. However, based on our audit work and further research, there is an apparent reluctance to fully comply with the USCO provision. Therefore, we are also offering our perspective on more in-depth changes to the provision that should help USCO to be better received by the education community, and therefore, encourage more willing compliance. The lack of incentive to comply with USCO will need to be addressed and resolved in order for the provision to realize its full potential as a tool for improving the level of safety in our nation’s schools.

Gestures Convey Message: Learning in Progress

Date Captured	Monday August 06 2007, 7:47 AM
Washington Post reports, "Teachers who use gestures as they explain a concept -- such as the hand sweeps that Cook uses to emphasize an equation's symmetry -- are more successful at getting their ideas across, research has shown. And students who spontaneously gesture as they work through new ideas tend to remember them longer than those who do not move their hands."

LI colleges fight terror

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Thursday August 02 2007, 9:03 PM

Newsday opines, "Stony Brook University has received a $2.1 million grant from the Department of Defense to research ways to help plug this yawning gap in the security of computer systems. The grant, one of only four awarded nationally by the Pentagon in the cyber-security field, will fund a five-year project to develop solutions to help computer users prevent their systems from being corrupted or infiltrated. And Long Island University's Homeland Security Management Institute has been chosen as one of six universities across the nation to share in an annual $18 million program over the next four years to improve railroad security. "

Checking on child care is duty of providers, the state, parents

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Thursday August 02 2007, 9:30 AM

Rochester and Democrat Chronicle Op-ed contributor Barbara-Ann Mattle, CEO of Child Care Council Inc. opines, "Parents have the responsibility to perform due diligence in selecting care for their children. This process can include a call to a child care consultant at the Child Care Council. Parents may also do an online search of the Council's Web site. Parents then should visit programs to determine their own and their child's comfort level. The New York State Office of Children and Family Services maintains a Web site that contains information on all complaints (resolved and unresolved) for any licensed or registered child care provider or program. This data base is available to parents as an additional research tool at www.ocfs.state.ny.us. Parents are the most consistent monitors of the child care system. They may visit their children at any time throughout the day. New York state regulations emphasize this 'open door policy.' The state Bureau of Early Childhood Services also continues to monitor the effectiveness of the regulatory system and to make adjustments that reflect the changing environment of care."

Time for a surge in war to save our kids

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Sunday July 29 2007, 9:18 AM

NY Daily News guest essayist Colin Powell, former U.S. secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and founding chairman of America's Promise Alliance opines, "Research shows that when young people receive four of five basic resources, which we call the Five Promises - caring adults, safe places, a healthy start, effective education and opportunities to help others - they are twice as likely to receive A's in school, twice as likely to avoid violence and 40% more likely to volunteer. Together, we must ensure that 15 million more at-risk American young people experience these promises. Don't look at young people who are angry or adrift, standing on some city streetcorner, and think they're someone else's problem. They're not. By volunteering to help in this battle, you can help us win the war."

Community boost sought by child care coalition

Date Captured	Friday July 27 2007, 8:24 AM
Press & Sun-Bulletin reports, "Research shows that investing money in early childhood education and health saves money later in areas such as remedial education, coalition coordinator Barbara Nilsen said, adding some studies have shown a 7-to-1 payback ratio."

Getting Down to Facts: A Research Project Examining California’s School Governance and Finance

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Monday July 23 2007, 9:03 AM

The researchers aimed to make the best possible use of existing research findings, identifying important holes in existing research and determining whether there were empirical studies that could be performed in the given timeframe to fill some of these holes. The new empirical work stems from this approach. As a result, the studies each provide a strong review of the literature with targeted new empirical additions.

Vouchers Could Desegregate Schools Better Than Buses

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Saturday July 21 2007, 7:11 AM

Herbert J. Walberg, fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and chairman of The Heartland Institute's board writes, "In late 2006, Gregg Forster reviewed seven valid research studies of voucher programs in Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C., and concluded that each one showed that voucher-participating private schools were less racially segregated than public schools. Claims that vouchers would disadvantage poor and minority children, or children with special educational needs, or lead to greater segregation, are unsupported by the research on existing voucher programs. All the research instead points to the overwhelmingly positive effects."

Federal Support for Adolescent Literacy: A Solid Investment

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Friday July 13 2007, 9:34 AM

This Alliance for Excellent Education brief lays out a set of strategic policy recommendations that include: (1) Encourage schools, districts, and states to articulate clear, comprehensive, actionable plans for improving literacy instruction; (2) Invest in tools that help schools identify struggling readers and appropriately adjust instruction in grades 4-12; (3) Invest in ongoing professional development programs designed to help all middle and high school teachers provide effective reading and writing instruction in their subject area; (4) Support and invest in accountability systems that give teachers strong incentives to provide effective reading and writing instruction; and, (5) Invest in ongoing research on and evaluation of strategies to improve adolescent literacy.

Research Links Summer Break, Achievement Gap

Date Captured	Tuesday July 10 2007, 8:51 AM
NPR Larry Abramson reports, " Research indicates that low-income school kids lose an average of two months of reading achievement over the summer. The achievement gap between whites and minority children is being attributed to this factor."

Education, building and money: a look at the Wicks Law

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Monday July 09 2007, 9:28 AM

The Journal News reports, "Unless you're in the building trades or a public entity doing some construction, proposed changes to the Wicks Law probably didn't register particularly loudly on your interest meter. But like any other change that affects education, the issue is really about money: an estimated $13 million more in school construction costs per year in Rockland taxpayer dollars charged for Wicks Law compliance, according to research by members of the Rockland School Boards Association."

Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind: Federal Management or Citizen Ownership of K–12 Education?

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Wednesday June 27 2007, 8:13 PM

Eugene Hickok, Ph.D., Bradley Education Fellow at The Heritage Foundation previously serving the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education and Pennsylvania's Secretary of Education and Matthew Ladner, Ph.D., Vice President of Research at the Goldwater Institute conclude, "Shifting greater policymaking authority back to the state level would protect academic transparency in American education. Parents, citizens, and policymakers would continue to receive the information about students' and schools' performance through state testing. Maintaining this transparency would ensure that all stakeholders have the needed information about how best to educate children. This would begin to restore citizen ownership of American education--a necessary step for future efforts to strengthen American public schools."

The Abbott Preschool Program Longitudinal Effects Study (APPLES)

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Friday June 15 2007, 7:50 PM

by Ellen Frede, Kwanghee Jung, W. Steven Barnett, Cynthia Esposito Lamy, and Alexandra Figueras. "This report discusses the results of a rigorous study of New Jersey's Abbott Preschool Program. The study seeks to determine if the learning gains from the state prekindergarten program found in earlier research at kindergarten entry continued throughout the kindergarten year and assess the quality of Abbott classrooms. Findings form this study: classroom quality in the Abbott Preschool Program continues to improve; children who attend the program, regardless of setting, improve in language, literacy and math skills through the end of their kindergarten year; and children who attend the preschool education program for two years significantly outperform those who attend for only one year or do not attend at all."

This Is a Test. Results May Vary.

Date Captured	Wednesday June 13 2007, 10:25 AM
NY Times reports, "Mr. Tobias [directs the Center for Research on Teaching and Learning at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education} said officials generally did not analyze high scores as aggressively as falling ones, and his remark betrays a weary understanding of educational politics. 'Why would you take away your own good story?' he said."

Changes in Instructional Hours in Four Subjects by Public School Teachers of Grades 1 Through 4

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Tuesday June 05 2007, 10:14 AM

Authors: Beth A. Morton, Education Statistical Services Institute--American Institutes for Research, and Ben Dalton, formerly of the Education Statistical Services Institute--Americian Institutes for Research. In the two most recent administrations, 1999-2000 and 2003-04, weekly teacher instructional hours in English increased while instructional time in mathematics, social studies, and science decreased. Despite the fluctuations in hours of instruction, total instructional time in the four subjects as a percentage of the student school week did not change significantly between 1987-88 and 2003-04; it was about 67 percent of the school week in each year.

Texas school ready for handheld computers

Date Captured	Monday June 04 2007, 11:23 AM
Baytown Sun reports, "Each of the 350 students will receive a specially designed handheld computer on which they can type notes, exchange e-mails with teachers and fellow students, create and view customized graphic animations and multimedia presentations, present their projects to the class and research topics on the Internet."

State improves tracking of student performance, information

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Sunday June 03 2007, 10:18 AM

The Journal News reports, "Because every public school and charter school student has been given a unique 10-digit identification number, it is possible to track students as they move from school to school, anywhere in the state. That will help the state develop more accurate graduation and dropout rates. The system, which will be maintained by an outside contractor, also holds the promise of richer analysis of student performance. Musser said it would be possible, for example, to analyze the relationship between a pupil's performance on third-grade tests and his or her achievement in upper grades. Such research will help the state and schools develop education policy and help students who are poor performers in lower grades be able to pass high school Regents exams."

How Educators in Three States Are Responding to Standards-Based Accountability Under No Child Left Behind

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Thursday May 31 2007, 10:42 AM

This research brief describes work done for RAND Education documented in Standards-Based Accountability Under No Child Left Behind: Experiences of Teachers and Administrators in Three States, by Laura S. Hamilton, Brian M. Stecher, Julie A. Marsh, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Abby Robyn, Jennifer Lin Russell, Scott Naftel, and Heather Barney, MG-589-NSF, 2007, 302 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8330-4149-4. "Key findings: Most superintendents considered three improvement strategies most important: using data for decisionmaking, aligning curriculum with state standards, and focusing on low-performing students. Teachers changed their instruction in both desirable and undesirable ways. Most educators felt challenged by insufficient alignment among state standards, curriculum, and tests. The researchers recommend improving alignment among standards, tests, and curriculum; providing educators with professional development assistance; and exploring ways to measure performance more accurately."

Study ties religion to student success

Date Captured

Monday May 28 2007, 9:43 AM

CONTRA COSTA TIMES reports, "The White House has embraced a researcher whose work suggests religion can do what ample federal nourishment has not -- narrow the achievement gap between white and minority students. The gap narrows by 25 percent in religious schools, said William Jeynes of Cal State Long Beach in the current issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. When the student comes from an 'intact family' and professes religious commitment, the gap disappears."

SCAA Reports: Winter 2007

Date Captured

Tuesday May 22 2007, 10:53 AM

This issue of SCAA Reports spotlights some of the key areas urgently needing attention in order to assure the success of more children, and identifies several strategies for strengthening early child development: by significantly investing in early programming through home visiting, welcome baby contact, quality child care and early education. Research has shown that these investments have the longest-lasting and greatest return.

National Dropout Prevention Centers

Date Captured	Monday May 14 2007, 7:40 PM
The mission of the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network is to serve as a research center and resource network for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to reshape school and community environments to meet the needs of youth in at-risk situations so these students receive the quality education and services necessary to succeed academically and graduate from high school.

A Blueprint for Handling Sensitive Data: Security, Privacy, and Other Considerations (ID: ESEM071)

Date Captured

Monday May 14 2007, 1:35 PM

Link to powerpoint presentation by H. Morrow Long and Krizi Trivisani -- Information security risks at colleges and universities present challenging legal, policy, technical, and operational issues. According to a recent study by the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), security incidents have resulted in compromises of personal information which have led to bad publicity and the potential for identity theft. Among the steps to protect sensitive data include an information security risk management program, data classification policies, clearly defined roles and responsibilities, awareness programs, and technology solutions among other interventions. This seminar presentation outlines a blueprint for protecting sensitive data according to the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Security Task Force.

Why Students Don't Attend School

Date Captured

Saturday May 12 2007, 8:10 PM

Excerpts from "Increasing Student Attendance: Strategies from Research and Practice," Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory , written by Jennifer Railsback -- "Corville-Smith et al. (1998) found six variables that were statistically significant predictors for distinguishing absentee high school students from regularly attending students: Students' school perceptions: Absentees are less likely to perceive school favorably; Perception of parental discipline: Absentees perceive discipline as lax or inconsistent; Parents' control: Absentees believe parents are attempting to exert more control over them; Students' academic self-concept: Absentees feel inferior academically; Perceived family conflict: Absentees experience family conflict; Social competence in class: Absentees are less likely to feel socially competent in class;" ADDITIONALLY -- "Below are other commonly cited reasons that students have given for not attending school (Clement, Gwynne, & Younkin, 2001;Wagstaff, Combs, & Jarvis, 2000): Viewed classes as boring, irrelevant, and a waste of time; Did not have positive relationships with teachers; Did not have positive relationships with other students; Was suspended too often; Did not feel safe at school; Could not keep up with schoolwork or was failing (and there were no timely interventions); Found classes not challenging enough (worksheets and reading with lectures were the predominant activities), and students can miss class days and still receive credit; Couldn't work and go to school at the same time.

More schools on LI making the grade

Date Captured

Saturday May 12 2007, 9:26 AM

Newsday John Hildebrand reports, "Private analysts are skeptical. They note that the state Education Department for the first time this year has decided not to release "school report cards" until budget votes are completed. Voters need those report cards to judge schools' performance, analysts say, because the reports cover test results for a full range of subjects, not just the highlights. And some voice concern that the state would release the names of the highest-scoring schools so close to election time. "So we're having a cheerleader session before the budget vote," said B. Jason Brooks, a senior research associate at the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability, an Albany-area think tank. 'Yet parents and residents don't have straightforward data.'"

Blackboards Not Billboards

Date Captured	Sunday April 29 2007, 9:36 AM
NY Times Op-ed contributor David White, adjunct scholar at the Lexington Institute, a public policy research group opines, "All too often, America’s teachers’ unions claim to be championing education when, in fact, they’re pursuing unrelated political agendas."

Districts want strings detached from aid

Date Captured	Friday April 27 2007, 8:24 AM
Poughkeepsie Journal reports, "Under the new spending rules, the district must use the aid to implement full-day kindergarten, restructure middle and high schools, reduce class size, extend the school day or improve teacher and principal quality. The districts could spend up to 15 percent implementing a research-based program of their own as well."

Who Cares About Truancy in Seattle Public High Schools?

Date Captured	Wednesday April 11 2007, 8:15 PM
Truancy is not exactly a new problem, and the literature abounds with approaches to increasing school attendance.

Colleges must learn to teach

Date Captured

Sunday April 08 2007, 10:05 AM

Times Union THOMAS TOCH and KEVIN CAREY write, "Ironically, our global dominance in research and persistent mediocrity in undergraduate education are closely related. Both are the result of the same choices. The 17 institutions atop the Shanghai rankings are driven by professional and financial incentives that favor research and scholarship over teaching. Funding from the federal government, publish-or-perish tenure policies, and college rankings from the likes of U.S. News & World Report all push universities and professors to excel at their research mission. There are no corresponding incentives to teach students well. Take the U.S. News rankings. Ninety-five percent of each college's score is based on measures of wealth, fame and admissions selectivity. As a result, college presidents looking to get ahead focus on marketing, fundraising and recruiting faculty with great research credentials instead of investing their resources in helping undergraduates learn and earn degrees."

Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort

Date Captured

Thursday April 05 2007, 9:16 AM

National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance study finds: "Test scores were not significantly higher in classrooms using the reading and mathematics software products than those in control classrooms. In each of the four groups of products-reading in first grade and in fourth grade, mathematics in sixth grade, and high school algebra-the evaluation found no significant differences in student achievement between the classrooms that used the technology products and classrooms that did not. There was substantial variation between schools regarding the effects on student achievement. Although the study collected data on many school and classroom characteristics, only two characteristics were related to the variation in reading achievement. For first grade, effects were larger in schools that had smaller student-teacher ratios (a measure of class size). For fourth grade, effects were larger when treatment teachers reported higher levels of use of the study product." Dynarski, Mark, Roberto Agodini, Sheila Heaviside, Timothy Novak, Nancy Carey, Larissa Campuzano, Barbara Means, Robert Murphy, William Penuel, Hal Javitz, Deborah Emery, and Willow Sussex. Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, 2007. Prepared under Contract No.: ED-01-CO-0039/0007 with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

P-16 Education: A Plan for Action

Date Captured

Wednesday April 04 2007, 9:10 AM

Improve high school attendance and graduation rates by setting performance targets, promoting promising practices that remove barriers to graduation, and holding schools accountable for dramatic improvements. Problem: Since higher standards were adopted in 1996, the number of high school graduates each year has increased. However, only 64% of students who entered 9th grade in 2001 graduated in four years; 18% were still enrolled and 11% had dropped out. Rates for Black and Hispanic students were below 45%. Data show that graduation rates are closely tied to attendance rates. As attendance declines below 95%, graduation rates decline significantly. And both attendance and graduation rates decline with poverty. New York’s current graduation rate standard is only 55%, one of the lowest in the nation. Schools need to focus on the least served students, such as Black males, English Language Learners, and students with disabilities. Actions: ¦ Set a State graduation rate standard, publish four- and five-year graduation rates by school, and specify a schedule of improvement targets for schools to close the gap between their graduation rate and State standard. Set targets now for the students who entered 9th grade in 2004 and will graduate in 2008. This action is especially important to ensure that more schools intervene to help the most underserved students, such as Black males, English Language Learners, and students with disabilities Research and benchmark other states for effective, innovative strategies that improve high school graduation and attendance rates. Include strategies that begin in middle school and focus on the transition from middle to high school. Emphasize a meaningful curriculum that includes the arts, music, physical education and career and technical programs. Provide effective strategies to schools to enable them to achieve the State targets through regional networks

National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teachers

Date Captured	Tuesday April 03 2007, 5:32 PM
The National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, & Teaching (NCREST) is a research and development organization at Teachers College, Columbia University. Founded in 1990 by Linda Darling-Hammond and Ann Lieberman, NCREST is currently co-directed by Jacqueline Ancess and Thomas Hatch. NCREST is affiliated with Teachers College Department of Curriculum and Teaching.

A finding about aggressive behavior gets headlines, but positive aspects can't be ignored

Date Captured

Sunday April 01 2007, 10:14 AM

Newsday Op-Ed contributor Caryl Rivers, professor of journalism at Boston University opines, "With some 70 percent of women in the workforce, with more than half of all mothers of toddlers at work, and with men's wages flat or declining, it's a myth to think that most women will - or can - leave their jobs with the birth of a child. Unlike most European countries, the United States lags far behind in paying good salaries and requiring specialized training for day care workers. Staff burnout and turnover are major problems. We need to constantly fight for better-quality care and more funding for early childhood education. Some ideologues may argue that the only good mother is a stay-at-home mother, but that's not what research tells us. With more than 2 million kids in day care in this country, it's good that we are keeping a watchful eye on what is happening to these kids. But demonizing day care, and exaggerating its harm to children, does no service to parents."

Low-Income Parents Make Informed Education Decisions for Their Kids

Date Captured

Tuesday March 27 2007, 8:43 PM

The study indicates most parents take the decision seriously and research their options aggressively: 85 percent visit the schools, and 75 percent said they read printed information about schools, had their child visit the school, and talked with teachers and administrators. Opening Doors: How Low-Income Parents Search for the Right School, by Paul Teske, Jody Fitzpatrick, and Gabriel Kaplan, published in January 2007 by the University of Washingtonn

Research: Summer Vacation Hurts Low-Income Kids' Chances for Academic Success

Date Captured

Monday March 26 2007, 9:37 AM

Battle Creek Enquirer reports, "The study ["Lasting Consequences of the Summer Learning Gap"]contends that there is a summer learning gap between lower- and higher-income children and it begins during elementary school. Higher-income children's home environments are resource rich. They are more likely to have access to magazines, books, and have their parents read to them. Consequently, this gap accumulates over the years and results in unequal placements in college preparatory tracks once the children get to high school. The gap also increases the chances that children from low socio-economic families will drop out of high school and decreases their chances of attending a four-year college."

The Administrative Burden of No Child Left Behind

Date Captured

Sunday March 25 2007, 9:20 AM

Dan Lips, Education Analyst and Evan Feinberg, Research Assistant in Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation write, "As Congress considers the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, it should address the growing administrative burden that federal education policy imposes on state and local authorities. By allowing states to opt out of federal regulations and bureaucracy, A PLUS would return the authority to improve education to state and local officials. State and local communities would have the freedom to redirect resources currently expended on regulatory compliance toward promising reforms that boost academic achievement. Simplifying education policy in this way would bring about greater transparency in federal education spending and, ultimately, greater public accountability over taxpayer funding of education."

No Child Left Behind Act: Education Assistance Could Help States Better Measure Progress of Students with Limited English Proficiency

Date Captured

Friday March 23 2007, 1:44 PM

GAO-07-646T, March 23, 2007. The GAO report recommended that Education (1) support research on accommodations, (2) identify and provide technical support states need to ensure the validity of academic assessments, (3) publish additional guidance on requirements for assessing English language proficiency, and (4) explore ways to provide additional flexibility for measuring annual progress for these students. Education generally agreed with our recommendations and has taken a number of steps to address them.

1,600 educators to arrive in Ithaca today

Date Captured

Friday March 23 2007, 9:33 AM

Ithaca Journal reports, "The conference offers teachers and support staff from within the T-S-T BOCES system 134 workshops, which will be held throughout Ithaca. Workshops are located at Cornell's main campus, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca High School and T-S-T BOCES. Among the more popular workshops are 'undoing racism,' 'how to lose five to 10 pounds quickly' and workshops focused on 21st Century literacy. 'Those address how to use iPods educationally or create infinity groups for kids so they can be engaged in social networking around a topic,' Fontana [director of staff development and research for the ICSD] said."

Citywide class size cuts would hurt the poor

Date Captured

Wednesday March 21 2007, 8:19 AM

NY Daily Guest Op-Ed writes, "While research shows that - all things being equal - smaller classes are good for student achievement, particularly in the lower grades, not everything is ever equal. The truth, therefore, is far more complicated. You see, reducing class size requires the system to hire many more teachers. In a small school district, that's no big problem. But here in the nation's largest school system, which already employs some 80,000 teachers, hiring more teachers means delving deeper into a labor pool that is already stretched thin. If New York City were to reduce class size across the board, many parents would see their children placed with less-qualified teachers. Not exactly what they were promised."

50-State Report on Key State Education Policies

Date Captured

Tuesday March 20 2007, 12:06 PM

From the Council of Chief State School Officers , "The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) announces publication of the biennial report Key State Education Policies on PK-12 Education: 2006. The most recent edition of this report updates two decades of research, providing 50-state analysis and trends for state policies that define teaching and learning across the nation. The report covers several areas of state policy that will define efforts of states, districts, and schools to meet key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)."

Curriculum major focus of equity plan

Date Captured

Monday March 19 2007, 9:29 AM

Ithaca Journal Op-Ed contributors Michael Melamed, Interim Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction for the ICSD and Kim Fontana, Director of Staff Development and Research write, "Ithaca's equity plan has five major strategies in the area of curriculum: (1) The district will clearly articulate the curriculum; (2) Principals and department chairs will choose programs and materials that are researched-based and that support critical thinking and diverse perspectives, as well as promote student empowerment; (3) The district will support the implementation of these programs with consistency and integrity; (4) Staff development opportunities will be offered to ensure that teachers have the resources and knowledge to teach the curriculum to heterogeneous groups of students with success; (5) Teachers will be given the opportunity and expectation to develop materials to support multicultural and multiracial perspectives as well as promote critical thinking."

Little Consistency in Bus Safety Standards

Date Captured

Sunday March 18 2007, 8:58 AM

NY Times reports, "Nationally, about 25 million children ride school buses to and from school, and a study released in November showed that bus-related accidents account for about 17,000 injuries a year — more than most previous studies, which used data from different sources. There are about 20 deaths a year involving drivers and students on school buses or in loading zones, the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences said. 'No one had ever taken a look at the entire spectrum of injuries before,' said the senior author of the study, Dr. Gary A. Smith, the director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. The study looked at emergency room visits for school-bus-related injuries from 2001 through 2003. It found a total of 51,000 injuries, 3 percent serious enough to require admission to the hospital. (The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, using information from a sampling of school districts, has estimated 8,500 to 12,000 injuries a year.) Most injuries occurred in September and October and involved children 10 to 14 years old. About 42 percent of the injuries involved another motor vehicle coming in contact with the bus, Dr. Smith said. More than half the injuries to children younger than 10 were to the head; lower-extremity injuries were the highest in children 10 to 19."

State Implementation of Supplemental Educational Services under the No Child Left Behind Act

Date Captured

Thursday March 15 2007, 8:48 AM

This CEP report was written by Angela Minnici, CEP senior research associate, and Alice P. Bartley, CEP research intern."Key Findings: Limited capacity to monitor -- Many states (38) are unable to monitor 'to a great extent' the quality and effectiveness of SES providers; only 10 states reported being able to do so. The greatest capacity challenges for states in meeting this federal SES monitoring requirement are insufficient numbers of staff and inadequate federal funding. Use of criteria in law -- Almost all (between 47 and 49) of the state education agencies we surveyed reported using the criteria required by NCLB law and federal guidance to review and approve applications from potential supplemental service providers. These criteria are intended to ensure that providers are financially sound, have a record of effectiveness, use research-based strategies, provide services consistent with district instruction, and adhere to health, safety, and civil rights laws. w Frequent updating. NCLB requires states to promote maximum participation of SES providers so that parents have as many choices as possible. Therefore, it is important for states to provide parents and school districts with a current and accurate list of SES providers that they can choose from. On our survey, 20 states said they review new SES provider applications more often than once a year (the minimum required by the NCLB law), and 22 states reported updating their SES provider lists more than once a year. Different reapplication policies -- The reapplication process varies widely by state. In 13 states, SES providers never have to formally reapply, and in 12 states, SES providers have to reapply every year." Nancy Kober, a CEP consultant, edited the report. Jack Jennings, CEP’s president and CEO, and Diane Stark Rentner, CEP’s director of national programs, provided advice and assistance.

University of Washington’s National Charter School Research Project (NCSRP)

Date Captured	Saturday March 10 2007, 8:39 AM

In War Over Teaching Reading, a U.S.-Local Clash

Date Captured

Friday March 09 2007, 8:57 AM

NY Times DIANA JEAN SCHEMO reports, "Robert Sweet Jr., a former Congressional aide who wrote much of the Reading First legislation, said the law aimed at breaking new ground by translating research into lesson plans. Under the law, the yardstick of a reading program’s scientific validity became a 2000 report by the National Reading Panel. That panel, created by Congress, with members selected by G. Reid Lyon, a former head of a branch of the National Institutes of Health, set out to review the research and tell Americans what worked. It named phonics and related skills, vocabulary, fluency and reading comprehension as the cornerstones of effective reading instruction."

Debunking a Special Education Myth

Date Captured

Thursday March 08 2007, 8:38 AM

Jay P. Greene, professor of education reform, University of Arkansas, and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and Marcus A. Winters, senior research associate at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and doctoral fellow at the University of Arkansas write, " Can spiraling special education costs explain why educational achievement remained stagnant over the past three decades while real education spending more than doubled? Policy makers, education researchers, and school district officials often make this claim. Special education students—goes the argument—are draining resources away from regular education students."

The Effects of Theoretically Different Instruction and Student Characteristics on the Skills of Struggling Readers

Date Captured

Monday March 05 2007, 3:41 PM

"This study investigated the effectiveness of combining enhanced classroom instruction and intense supplemental intervention for struggling readers in first grade. Further, it compared two supplemental interventions derived from distinct theoretical orientations, examining them in terms of effects on academic outcomes and whether children's characteristics were differentially related to an instructional intervention." Mathes, P.G., Denton, C.A., Fletcher, J.M., Anthony, J.L., Francis, D.J., & Schatschneider, C. (2005, April/May/June). The Effects of Theoretically Different Instruction and Student Characteristics on the Skills of Struggling Readers. Reading Research Quarterly, 40(2), 148–182. doi: 10.1598/RRQ.40.2.2

Reinterpreting the Development of Reading Skills

Date Captured

Monday March 05 2007, 3:25 PM

"Theories about reading have neglected basic differences in the developmental trajectories of skills related to reading. This essay proposes that some reading skills, such as learning the letters of the alphabet, are constrained to small sets of knowledge that are mastered in relatively brief periods of development. In contrast, other skills, such as vocabulary, are unconstrained by the knowledge to be acquired or the duration of learning. The conceptual, developmental, and methodological constraints on different reading skills are described in this essay that identifies various types of constraints on reading constructs and measures. Examples of reading research and assessment are discussed to illustrate (a) how the constraints can help to explain transitory correlational patterns among reading data, (b) how proxy effects surrounding constrained skills influence interpretations of reading development, (c) how prescriptions to teach constrained skills are causal misinterpretations of longitudinal correlations, and (d) why interventions on constrained skills usually lead only to temporary gains on skills aligned with the constrained skill." Paris, S.G. (2005, April/May/June). Reinterpreting the Development of Reading Skills. Reading Research Quarterly, 40(2), 184–202. doi: 10.1598/RRQ.40.2.3

Recognizing the accomplishments of Western New Yorkers

Date Captured	Sunday March 04 2007, 2:48 PM
Buffalo News reports, "Barbara Nevergold, Ph.D., co-founder of the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women at the University at Buffalo, is one of five people to be honored this year by the State of New York with a 2007 Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award."

'No Child Left Behind' report spotlights Yough

Date Captured	Saturday March 03 2007, 7:51 AM
TRIBUNE-REVIEW reports, "'We picked (Yough)[Pennsylvania] because we wanted to showcase a rural, small community with a districtwide approach to complement the research we had on urban and suburban areas,' said Jennifer W. Adams, spokeswoman for the Commission on No Child Left Behind."

Keeping New Teachers: A First Look at the Influences of Induction in the Chicago Public Schools

Date Captured

Thursday March 01 2007, 7:16 PM

1/2007. Kavita Kapadia and Vanessa Coca; with John Q. Easton. Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR), "By itself, induction programming had no significant impact on teachers' satisfaction with their job. However, strong levels of mentoring and support for new teachers—regardless of whether it was part of a formal induction program—greatly improved teachers' experiences and intentions to continue teaching. This report also suggests that high quality induction be both intensive and contextual so that it takes into need the contextual factors that affect teachers' experiences and intentions."

ASCB Position on Public Access to Scientific Literature

Date Captured

Thursday March 01 2007, 5:38 PM

The American Society for Cell Biology is a nonprofit scientific society of over 11,000 members at leading research institutions, state colleges, undergraduate teaching institutions, and biotechnology companies. The major activities of the Society include organization of influential scientific meetings in cell biology, advocacy for sound science policy, and programs that support the careers of women and underrepresented minorities in basic biomedical research. The ASCB is also a publisher. The Society’s publications include the high-impact monthly research journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell.

DUAL LANGUAGE LEARNING GAINS SUPPORT; Pass along language skills, immigrant parents told

Date Captured

Monday February 26 2007, 10:06 AM

Journal News reports, "When their children are learning English, immigrant parents get advice that surprises them: Don't stop speaking your native language at home. Speak as much as possible, and teach as much as you can. The message draws on research showing that literacy skills learned in one language can be applied in another. That's long been the basis of bilingual education, but even children who aren't enrolled in bilingual programs are being urged to develop their primary language alongside English."

EdTrust Releases Funding Gaps 2006: How the Federal Government Makes Rich

Date Captured

Monday February 26 2007, 9:34 AM

"University of Washington Research Assistant Professor Marguerite Roza shows that, despite district bookkeeping practices that make funding across schools within the same district appear relatively comparable, substantially less money is spent in high-poverty and high-minority schools. Teacher salaries are the clearest example. Roza looks at salary expenditures in a variety of districts and finds troubling inequities in the allocation of this key resource among schools in the same district. For example in Austin, a city with one of the largest salary gaps, the gap in average teacher salaries between the highest and lowest poverty schools within the district amounted to $3,837. In a school of 25 teachers that gap amounts to $95,925 less per year for a low-income school; in a school with 100 teachers, the gap increases to $383,700 per year."

The Segregation of American Teachers

Date Captured

Wednesday February 21 2007, 9:44 AM

By Erica Frankenberg, M.Ed., is a Research Assistant at The Civil Rights Project and Professor Gary Orfield, Professor of Education and Social Policy and Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. "This report shows that in an increasingly segregated national system of schools, faculty segregation tends to add to — rather than counteract — the separation of students. We see that the white teachers, who continue to dominate the teaching profession, tend to grow up with little racial/ethnic diversity in their own education or experience. Not only did white teachers, on average, attend schools when they were elementary school students that were over 90% white, they are currently teaching in schools where almost 90% of their faculty colleagues are white and over 70% of students are white."

Students' View of Intelligence Can Help Grades

Date Captured	Thursday February 15 2007, 9:28 AM
NPR reports, "A new study in the scientific journal Child Development shows that if you teach students that their intelligence can grow and increase, they do better in school. All children develop a belief about their own intelligence, according to research psychologist Carol Dweck from Stanford University."

New York City Education Department Becomes an Open Book

Date Captured

Tuesday January 16 2007, 5:37 AM

NY Post David Andreatta writes, "After four years of landmark changes to the school system, the Department of Education is preparing to turn over mounds of data related to its most radical reforms to independent researchers, The Post has learned. A list of top priorities for the new Research Partnership for New York City Schools includes examining the controversial academy for training principals, empowerment schools, and changes to the high-school admissions process."

Reforming New York’s Property Tax System: A Report on the January 10 Conference sponsored by the Center for Governmental Research, the Fiscal Policy Institute and the Empire Center of NYS Policy

Date Captured	Thursday January 11 2007, 8:58 AM
Empirepage editor Peter G. Pollak suggests as a step in the right direction, "Reform the Star Program to impose a cap on school district spending increases with provisions for enrollment increases and capital spent on new buildings."

Property taxes linked to job growth

Date Captured	Thursday January 11 2007, 8:52 AM
Times Union reports, "New York's governments and school districts have been hiring people at a rapid clip in recent years, far outpacing population and school enrollment, according to a speaker [Robert Ward, research director at the Public Policy Institute, which is affiliated with the state Business Council] Wednesday at a symposium on property taxes."

Frozen Assets: Rethinking Teacher Contracts Could Free Billions for School Reform

Date Captured

Tuesday January 09 2007, 6:57 AM

Education Sector report written by Marguerite Rosa . Many common provisions of teacher contracts require school districts to spend substantial sums to implement policies which research has shown have a weak or inconsistent relationship with student learning. This report examines eight such provisions: Increases in teacher salaries based on years of experience; Increases in teacher salaries based on educational credentials and experiences; Professional development days; Number of paid sick and personal days; Class-size limitations; Use of teachers’ aides; Generous health and insurance benefits; and Generous retirement benefits.

High-speed help

Date Captured

Tuesday January 09 2007, 6:02 AM

Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin opined, ""If you live in the rural edges of Greater Binghamton you may live in a zone where all you have available for Internet access is dial-up service. At least that's a gateway, but in today's fast-paced computer communications, it's akin to Stone Age technology. Some features just won't work well with dial-up. Broadband is becoming the industry standard, with wi-fi as the choice for cutting edge businesses. Lacking access to broadband can hamper not only communication but educational research. In other words, it puts our rural students at a disadvantage to their peers."

Universities power city's economy

Date Captured

Monday January 08 2007, 4:24 AM

Daily News contributor Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University writes, "One local economic sector continues to create a range of such jobs: higher education. The city has some 116 degree granting colleges and universities, including a resurgent .CUNY system and two of the most respected research universities in the world, NYU and Columbia. Collectively our local independent colleges and universities generate some $9.1 billion in direct spending and $21.2 billion in economic activity. As a result, our colleges and universities are critical not just to the city's intellectual life, but to its long-term economic vitality."

Missouri study bolsters schools’ shift to three tiers

Date Captured

Sunday January 07 2007, 2:27 PM

Columbia Daily Tribune reports, "Thompson said district officials were looking for a way to transition sixth- and seventh-grade students out of the self-contained classroom setting and introduce them to more rigorous coursework. Adding ninth grade to the existing high schools wasn’t feasible without building additions or another major high school, he said. The community at the time favored the four-tiered plan, Thompson said, which made the best use of district resources. Columbia’s decision to add middle school predated Alspaugh’s research linking transitions to academic losses. Alspaugh [emeritus professor of education] said he supports the district’s plan to return to the three-tiered system. 'Clearly, it’s a step in the right direction.'"

The state of public education: a state-by-state comparison

Date Captured

Thursday January 04 2007, 5:56 AM

The Journal News reports on survey produced by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center and The Pew Center on the States, "New York does better than the national average in terms of elementary and middle school test scores, but has a lower percentage of students who graduate from high school. And while underperforming some states, New York does better than the average on the success index. The state scores higher than the national average on 9 of the 13 success indicators, including family income, percentage of children who have a parent with a college degree, preschool enrollment and college enrollment."

The smaller the better?

Date Captured	Sunday December 31 2006, 8:07 AM
Daily Southtown (Illinois) reports, "A 2006 study from the Consortium on Chicago School Research shows that the creation of small schools has lowered the dropout rate and raised attendance, but it has not improved test scores."

Culture groups, schools studied

Date Captured	Thursday December 28 2006, 5:32 AM
Post-Standard reports, "Officials with Partners for Arts Education, a nonprofit that awards grants across Central New York, said this month they plan to embark on a yearlong research project to assess the relationships between local schools and cultural organizations. Among the six schools selected for the study are Hamilton and Madison Central high schools and Madison Central elementary school."

Vitality after UAlbany

Date Captured

Wednesday December 27 2006, 5:08 AM

Times Union reports, "Retiring professors close the door on their careers as full-time teachers, but the University at Albany has opened another door for them. The new Emeritus Center -- part lounge, computer lab and meeting room -- will allow retired professors to stay connected to the university and continue their research. The university community can tap the retirees institutional memory, and the professors will have access to office space, research grants and other like-minded scholars."

Colleges say ethics rules are costing them donations

Date Captured

Tuesday December 26 2006, 7:09 PM

Newsday reports, "State universities say an interpretation of a new ethics law is costing them millions of dollars in corporate donations for scholarships and research. The law is designed to stop contracting abuses by preventing contractors from using gifts to buy access and influence. It prohibits state agencies, including state universities, from accepting gifts and donations from some Connecticut companies and lobbyists."

Degrees of caution attract a growing crowd

Date Captured	Tuesday December 26 2006, 8:47 AM
STAR-TELEGRAM reports, "Since 9-11, many colleges have offered more classes and degree options for students who want to specialize in defense and emergency management. The Homeland Security Department spends millions of dollars a year on university grants to help with research and to train students."

Seeking $1 Million a Day, N.Y.U. Mines Personal Data for a Fund-Raising Edge

Date Captured

Monday December 25 2006, 3:28 AM

NY Times reports, "The research process starts in N.Y.U.’s development office, a warren of cubicles where a full-time staff of 98 people and 38 interns scour for 'prospects.' The yearly budget for the fund-raising enterprise is $26 million. Each day, Lekha Menon, the director of prospect management and research at N.Y.U., and four staff members pore over more than a dozen newspapers and electronic news and data sources, looking for names of alumni, parents of alumni or parents of students. They also look for notable donations to other causes, promotions, appointments to corporate boards and records of securities transactions."

Charter schools also closing achievement gap

Date Captured

Saturday December 23 2006, 8:39 AM

B. JASON BROOKS, Senior Research Associate , Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability, in a letter to the Times Union writes, "Unfortunately, it is the traditional education establishment that more often than not stands in the way of expanding and replicating such successful schools. Just look at the effort put forth this very week by the state teachers' union as a last-ditch attempt to prevent new, successful charter schools from opening anywhere in the state. While people make excuses for why an achievement gap persists and continue to stand in the way of expanding successful schools, the demand for high-quality charter school options -- schools that are closing that gap right now -- continues to grow."

Speaking Truth to Power on School Desegregation. Is Power Listening?

Date Captured

Thursday December 21 2006, 8:24 AM

TC contributor Amy Stuart Wells, professor of sociology and education and the deputy director for research at the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City writes, "The Supreme Court will have until the end of June to rule in these cases. At the end of the day, these nine justices will have to decide whether the means used by these two school districts justified their goal of racially balanced schools. No one knows what role the social science research will ultimate play. If the court, especially Justice Kennedy, is bent on ending attempts by school districts or other government entities to acknowledge our country's history of racial inequality and segregation and create race-conscious programs to address that legacy, then they (and he) will do so, regardless of the evidence that this will result in far fewer educational opportunities for poor students of color."

North Carolina will study tutoring companies

Date Captured

Thursday December 14 2006, 9:33 AM

News-Record reports, "The N.C. Department of Public Instruction hopes to have some answers next year. In October, the department hired the Center for Research in Education Policy at the University of Memphis to start evaluating about 50 tutoring companies that work with schools that have repeatedly failed to meet federal testing measures. The contract, at a cost of almost $94,000, ends in fall 2007. Although the state approves tutoring providers, it has not evaluated their work as required by the 5-year-old No Child Left Behind Act."

Spitzer’s school plan will benefit all

Date Captured

Wednesday December 13 2006, 10:15 AM

Poughkeepsie Journal contributor Billy Easton, executive director of Alliance for Quality Education writes, "Throughout his campaign, Spitzer consistently articulated an education plan based on proven strategies. The elements of his plan will get many more children prepared to succeed as adults. He starts with pre-kindergarten, which increases graduation rates and employment success and reduces crime. He supports smaller classes, which show long-term increases in test scores, graduation rates and college preparedness. Training and recruiting skilled teachers is another Spitzer education priority that is backed by extensive research. He supports producing strong principals to lead our schools. And he advocates helping kids who are falling through the cracks by partnering with community-based organizations (such as after-school programs), expanding literacy programs and improving vocational education. This is a refreshing vision designed to actually address the needs of every child. It is not difficult to imagine it cannot all be done on the cheap. What is the price tag Spitzer has identified to pay for all of this? $8.5 billion. This is for a multiyear statewide solution, not a New York City focused plan."

SUNY Cobleskill gets $1M to not let waste go to waste

Date Captured	Monday December 11 2006, 7:00 AM
The Daily Star reports, "The funding is coming from the Department of Defense because the Pentagon would someday like to have mobile bio-waste to bio-energy facilities that can be used on its bases, said Holly Cargill-Cramer, SUNY Cobleskill director of public relations. But the technology will first be used to benefit the SUNY Cobleskill campus, where the plant will be located, she said."

New York Teachers Union down on charter schools

Date Captured

Saturday December 09 2006, 7:43 AM

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports, "Peter Murphy of the New York Charter Schools Association called the report bogus and an attempt to sabotage expansion of charters. 'They are acting like a schoolyard bully to this fledgling reform movement that's showing real success for children by coming out with an 11th-hour hit-job, pretending to be a study, that's unworthy of a high-school research class,' he said."

The Charter State Option: Charting a Course Toward Federalism in Education

Date Captured

Wednesday December 06 2006, 5:40 PM

Dan Lips, Education Analyst, Evan Feinberg, Research Assistant in Domestic Policy Studies, and Jennifer A. Marshall, Director of Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation conclude, "Beginning in 2007, policymakers should steer a course toward restoring state control of education by enacting a charter state option. Congress should allow all states to enter into an alternative contractual arrangement with the federal government in which they would be freed from federal program mandates while taking responsibility for results. Such federalism would create an environment in which promising state and local education strategies can flourish."

Pod-class aids learning

Date Captured	Tuesday December 05 2006, 5:10 AM
NY Daily News reports, "A new program at Lehman College is making it easier to learn what faculty members have been up to by putting some of their research online in podcast form. The college describes the project, which began as a CUNY-wide initiative, as an opportunity to showcase prominent Lehman faculty, as well as their involvement in important research."

Fixing Failing Schools

Date Captured	Monday December 04 2006, 3:47 PM
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) hosts a conference during which original research about NCLB remedies will be presented and discussed. WATCH VIDEO OF CONFERENCE AND READ BRIEFS PRESENTED.

Tracking Teachers

Date Captured

Sunday December 03 2006, 8:08 AM

NY Times op-ed contributor RICHARD DE LISI, dean of the graduate school of education at Rutgers University writes, "What New Jersey needs next is research to determine what aspects of teacher preparation are most important and whether one approach is more effective than another at promoting student achievement. Unfortunately, a key tool that would make this research possible is missing here: a database that tracks both student and teacher information from prekindergarten to 12th grade. Several states have developed strong database systems. But here, concerns about cost and privacy have kept us from creating one. These concerns are serious. But other states, sometimes through trial and error, have overcome them, and we can learn and benefit from their experiences."

NEA stands against real reform to help students

Date Captured

Saturday December 02 2006, 9:04 AM

Chicago Sun-Times contributor David White, adjunct scholar at the Lexington Institute, a public policy research organization based in Arlington, Va. writes, "The number of high school dropouts is reaching crisis proportions. Today, nearly half of all blacks and Latinos fail to graduate. Dropouts earn about $260,000 less over the course of their lives. They're 72 percent more likely to be unemployed. Among prisoners, 80 percent don't have a high school degree. The National Education Association just issued a much-ballyhooed 12-point plan to eradicate this problem. But don't hold your breath. The misguided plan is more about shifting resources to the NEA's power base than doing what it takes to ensure that more students will finish school."

The Benefits of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Elementary and Secondary Education

Date Captured

Saturday December 02 2006, 7:50 AM

The Benefits of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Briefing Before The United States Commission on Civil Rights Held in Washington, D.C., July 28, 2006 Briefing Report, "Based on the record, the Commission issued a number of findings, including: • There is little evidence that racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary schools results in significant improvements in academic performance; • Studies on the effect of school racial composition on academic achievement often suggest modest and inconsistent benefits; • Studies of whether racial and ethnic diversity result in significant social and noneducational benefits report varied results; • Much of the early research indicating educational benefits resulting from racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary schools suffered from serious methodological weaknesses; • A preliminary review of data on the overall relationship between school racial composition and student achievement as measured by the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress scores does not indicate a consistent strong relationship between the two after controlling for socioeconomic status; • While there are many research studies indicating that desegregated schooling is associated with higher educational and occupational aspirations , and to a modest degree, attainment for African-American students, methodological weaknesses in these studies make it difficult to isolate school racial composition as the cause of these aspirations and attainments; • While recent studies examining the relationship between desegregation and future wages found a small positive relationship after controlling for self-selection bias, research evidence on the relationship of school racial composition and actual wages is less definitive; • More recent surveys have indicated generally positive reactions to school desegregation, such as cross-racial friendships and greater understanding of racial and cultural differences, but some of these surveys do not definitively identify a causal relationship between the two."

Teaching - the solution is as simple as that

Date Captured

Friday December 01 2006, 7:53 AM

Community Press contributor and testing coordinator in the Princeton City School District writes, "The good news - we have control over teaching quality as opposed to controlling poverty, ethnicity, culture or environment. At Princeton, more time and effort has gone into hiring top notch teachers than ever before. They are interviewed extensively and complete a battery of screening tests. We screen for people with demonstrated competency in working with groups from very diverse backgrounds that can be flexible in meeting the needs of our students. More time and money has been spent on training and retraining than ever before. Why all the extra effort with hiring, training and teacher collaboration? Because we believe those efforts are critical to our ability to provide the very best teachers for our students. The very best teachers are those who understand the need to continue their professional learning, and who are willing to implement research-based practices to do whatever it takes to help their students be successful."

New York City's libraries must do a better job of policing Web porn

Date Captured

Sunday November 26 2006, 9:15 AM

NY Daily News contributor ROWENA DALY writes, "All city libraries must be in compliance with the Children's Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, which requires them to install Internet-filtering software on their public-access computers to prevent the display of obscene content. Even research libraries are supposed to fall under the CIPA provision. When someone logs on to a computer with his or her library card, the system automatically checks the user's age. No one under 17 is supposed to be able to access adult Web sites. But despite the monitoring, there have been cases when people have been able to break through the filter, according to the Brooklyn and Queens libraries. Library officials need to devise a plan. It may be time to install partitions to divide computers or keep separate banks of terminals for adults and minors."

Assessing the value of pre-k: Benefits seem clear, but are there unintended consequences?

Date Captured

Sunday November 26 2006, 8:41 AM

The Daily Progress (Virginia) reports, "Private and public preschools are growing as more research has developed that reinforces the importance of early childhood development to later academic success. Parents who can afford private preschools have acted on these findings, enrolling their children earlier and at an increasing rate. But some worry this may contribute to the gap in achievement that exists in public schools."

Study aims to educate on Trail of Tears

Date Captured

Saturday November 25 2006, 8:15 AM

AP Bill Poovey writes, "The study called for by Congress would better define the routes taken by more than 15,000 members of the Cherokee, Creek and other tribes who were forced from their homes in 1838 to make way for white settlement. Untold hundreds and perhaps thousands of American Indians died during the removal to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. The Trail of Tears dates to 1830 when President Jackson submitted a plan to Congress to remove the tribes from the Southeast."

Do Board-Certified Teachers Lift Test Scores?

Date Captured

Thursday November 23 2006, 4:00 PM

NPR Larry Abramson reports, "Many teachers say that board certification has reawakened their commitment to teaching, even kept them from leaving the profession. But some districts remain skeptical, because they're not sure they'll get the only benefit that matters in education today: improved test scores. That finding is back up by recent research from William Sanders, who works for the computer software company SAS. 'There's very little difference in effectiveness based upon the National Board Certification Status,' Sanders says."

The vital role of community colleges

Date Captured

Thursday November 23 2006, 4:51 AM

Boston Globe contributor William D. Green, chairman and CEO of Accenture writes, "In addition to teaching people new skills, junior and community colleges often help students learn how to learn -- to gain the kind of solid footing it takes to continue their education. Research shows that students who transfer from a two-year institution to a four-year college or university are often more successful than those who start at a four-year institution. As a society we need to applaud the accomplishments of two-year college graduates and encourage baccalaureate institutions to accept transfer students who have proved they can be successful students. In the long run, junior and community colleges not only help students gain confidence in their ability to learn, but they also provide them a foundation for achieving better jobs. The potential ripple effect on the economy is obvious."

Courtroom Alchemy: Adequacy advocates turn guesstimates into gold

Date Captured

Monday November 20 2006, 8:07 PM

James W. Guthrie, professor of public policy and education, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University and Matthew G. Springer, research assistant professor of public policy and education, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University write In Education Next, "The principled cause of adequacy is legitimate. America’s public schools surely would be enhanced if assured the optimal mix of resources, incentives, practices, and structures. Consequently, we set forth three recommendations by which adequacy-driven reform and cost modeling strategies can become more effective." Authors recommendations include investing in research, raising the standards and changing the venue from the courthouse to the statehouse.

SUNY leader urges 'K-16' education path

Date Captured

Saturday November 18 2006, 3:30 PM

Kingston Freeman reports on Chancellor Ryan, K-16 education and workforce preparation, "The Center for Excellence program supports major upgrades of research facilities and other high technology and biotechnology capital projects, allowing colleges, universities and research institutions to secure research funding that could lead to new job creation. Four of the six current Centers for Excellence are located on the SUNY campuses in Buffalo, Albany Binghamton, and Stony Brook."

Separation anxiety: Segregating schools by gender is unwise

Date Captured

Tuesday November 14 2006, 9:27 AM

The Battalion Online Amanda Kaiser opined, "Proposing use of the education system to experiment with any arrangement not solidly supported by research is a sick and expensive joke, considering the abundance of problems with clear answers that remain unsolved. Changes to Title IX fail to address the real problems in education, and by deepening the divisions by which groups are segregated, these changes open the door for inequality. Lawmakers and educators should be striving for a system with fewer arbitrary divisions where students have equal opportunity to learn together."

'Guinea Pig' Kids Uproar

Date Captured

Tuesday November 14 2006, 5:35 AM

NY Post CARL CAMPANILE and STEPHANIE GASKELL report on students as subjects in university studies, "More than 50 of those studies focused on health, psychology, race, ethnicity and religion - mostly on kids in the poorest neighborhoods. All were conducted with parental consent, but as an incentive, parents and kids often were compensated. 'This is outrageous,' Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron said. 'I'm concerned about any form of therapy going on in our schools.' But Mayor Bloomberg defended the research. 'We've been doing this for a number of years and we will continue to do it,' he said.

Plan separates boys and girls

Date Captured

Monday November 13 2006, 9:20 AM

Herald Tribune reports, "Until recently, federal Title IX regulations were unclear on whether public schools could legally separate the sexes. In 1995, just three U.S. public schools had single-sex classrooms, according to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education. But in the past few years, the federal government has been moving to clarify the rules and is actually now calling for schools to research the effects of single-sex classrooms. Today, there are about 250 public schools with single-sex classrooms -- including seven in Florida."

'Guinea Pig' Kids Stir Furor

Date Captured

Monday November 13 2006, 4:49 AM

NY Post CARL CAMPANILE reports, "City [New York City] education officials last year quietly approved more than 50 research projects related to health, psychology, race, ethnicity, gender and religion - mostly on kids in the poorest neighborhoods, a Post investigation has found. Nearly 200 studies - some of them financed by multimillion-dollar grants - were OK'd. All of the studies were conducted with parental consent. But as an incentive, parents and kids often were compensated. The city allows 'modest cash payments' to parents and teachers and gift certificates for kids, education officials said."

Weighing in on Ballroom Dancing

Date Captured	Monday November 13 2006, 4:40 AM
NY Post CARL CAMPANILE and MARK BULLIET report, "Research involving public-school students as "guinea pigs" can be seriously worrisome - but also downright silly, critics charge. One example: A study of whether ballroom dancing helps kids beat weight woes and bolsters healthy behavior by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical Center."

Academics unite to protect New York state

Date Captured

Thursday November 09 2006, 5:28 AM

Times Union reports, "Protect New York will sponsor panel topics such as the ethics of surveillance and the psychiatric aspects of disaster and organize reviews of current research priorities and educational offerings related to homeland security and disaster planning. The group will host a conference on lessons learned and future directions in the fight against terrorism and natural disasters in New York City in 2007."

Study, Citing Student Injuries, Calls for Safety Belts

Date Captured	Monday November 06 2006, 3:27 AM
NY Times reports, "Safety belts, particularly lap-shoulder belts, 'could not only prevent injuries related to crashes,' said the lead author, Jennifer McGeehan, a researcher at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Columbus Children’s Hospital in Ohio, but also keep children seated 'so they’re not falling out of their seats when buses make normal turns or brake.'”

Private schools wary of vouchers

Date Captured

Saturday November 04 2006, 1:43 PM

The Greenville news reports, "McCreary [director of research, evaluation, accountability and testing for Greenville County school district] says the simple fact that parents have chosen to pay for private school education is a statistically significant indicator of academic achievement. 'If you have the means to afford a private education, then normally things at home are different than they are with some public school students,' he said. 'When parents choose, they're usually more involved in their children's education,' he said. 'There's more reading, more books, more opportunities for learning at home.' There's no reason why people of disadvantaged backgrounds shouldn't be able to avail themselves of the opportunity to choose, however, said Thomas Simuel, president and CEO of the South Carolina Center for Grassroots and Community Alternatives, a school-choice group focusing on low-income black communities. 'I totally disagree with the assessment that vouchers would rob public schools,' Simuel said. 'I think public schools are already robbing from too many children who aren't cutting it in the public education system.' His group is holding 'town meetings' across the state to encourage parents in black communities to seek school choices, whether with publicly funded magnet or charter schools, or in home schools or virtual schools, or religious and secular private schools."

Educators React to Shift in Leadership at Gates Fund

Date Captured

Saturday November 04 2006, 7:35 AM

NY Times KAREN W. ARENSON reports, "The results have been mixed. Some Gates schools have showed gains. Others have not. The foundation and Mr. Vander Ark have been applauded for focus and willingness to innovate, but criticized for moving too quickly and not paying enough attention to results, especially at first. Jay P. Greene, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a professor at the University of Arkansas who has received Gates money, praised Mr. Vander Ark’s focus but said the foundation 'was slow to commission rigorous evaluations of their efforts.'”

Air Force grants Binghamton U professor $300K

Date Captured

Thursday November 02 2006, 6:21 AM

Press & Sun-Bulletin reports, "Craver [professor] plans to use the Air Force funding to develop an automated process to break digital watermarks, in which information is secretly embedded in a file. Watermarks can be used to provide proof of ownership or as copy protection devices. Craver's research will be relevant to any security system that relies on a detection algorithm, including face-recognition and thumbprint recognition systems, university officials said."

Ferris Bueller's day is history for today's kids

Date Captured

Friday October 27 2006, 9:58 AM

USA TODAY reports, "Recent research showing that important brain development continues into adolescence has influenced new restrictions, says Stephanie Walton of the National Conference of State Legislatures. 'There's a real sense out there, and you see this reflected in all these laws, that kids don't grow up as fast as we used to think they do.' Lobbying by parents has brought a wave of laws and surveillance — as well as lawsuits contending that some policies designed to crack down on teens have gone too far:"

FIRST 5 CALIFORNIA

Date Captured

Thursday October 26 2006, 8:03 PM

Research shows that a child’s brain develops most dramatically in the first five years and what parents and caregivers do during these years to support their child’s growth will have a meaningful impact throughout life. Based on this research, First 5 California, also known as the California Children and Families Commission, was established after voters passed Proposition 10 in November 1998, adding a 50 cents-per-pack tax on cigarettes to fund education, health, child care and other programs for expectant parents and children up to age 5.

The coed classroom

Date Captured

Thursday October 26 2006, 6:25 AM

Boston Globe contributors Rosalind C. Barnett, senior scientist at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and Caryl Rivers, journalism professor at Boston University write, "If some boys in Massachusetts are having trouble with vocabulary, or see literature and learning as 'uncool,' schools need to tackle such problems. Will all-boy classrooms eliminate such attitudes? Not if they operate on the assumption that boys inherently have inferior verbal skills and have to be 'yelled at' to learn. Such classrooms could, in fact, further alienate bright kids from education."

Therapy dogs help with reading lessons

Date Captured	Tuesday October 24 2006, 5:09 AM
Times Union reports, "Research has shown that the non-threatening and nonjudgmental time with therapy dogs leads to increased reading scores and improved self-confidence. And Van Corlaer students who have had two therapy dog sessions are already showing improvement."

Charter Schools against the Odds: An Assessment of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education

Date Captured

Monday October 23 2006, 4:44 PM

By Paul Hill, research professor in the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, both at the University of Washington.Contrib tors: John E. Chubb, Chester E. Finn Jr., Paul T. Hill, Caroline M. Hoxby, Eric Osberg, Paul E. Peterson, Brad Smith, Nat Torinus The Hoover Institution writes, "The expert contributors to this volume tell how state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, forcing them to pay rent out of operating funds, and other ways. They explain how these policies can be amended to level the playing field and give charter schools—and the children they serve—a fairer chance to succeed." Full-text PDF versions of each chapter can be accessed by clicking on the desired chapter title.

Research says Texas incorrectly reports dropouts

Date Captured

Monday October 23 2006, 8:18 AM

Terrell Tribune reports, "Lawson [director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University] emphasized that while Texas has the most accurate system of reporting dropout rates, there is a problem with the quality of the data. 'Texas is a leader as far as reporting,' Lawson said. 'They have the most accurate system in recent years because they identify the student individually and have the capacity to track them, theirs is a the 'gold standard.' Unfortunately, because of the way they manipulate the data, it turns into fool's gold.' Lawson said the problem is that Texas inflates its graduation reports. In the construction of the report, many students go unaccounted for."

Taxpayers, teachers call for school funding reform

Date Captured

Thursday October 19 2006, 6:04 AM

Poughkeepsie Journal reports, "Trudi Renwick, senior economist from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute, a research and education organization, said a proper balance needs to be found in funding schools with both state and local money. Rising taxes are not due to district overspending or increasing teacher salaries, but insufficient state aid and the increasing costs of maintaining services, she said."

Imagine the best schools in the world ... no exceptions, no excuses

Date Captured

Wednesday October 18 2006, 7:39 AM

Delawareonline contributors Marvin N. Schoenhals, Vision 2015 and Chairman/President of WSFS Financial Corporation and Valerie A. Woodruff, Delaware's Secretary of Education write, "Over the past 11 months, our 28-member Steering Committee has worked very hard. We have come to grips with the strengths and challenges of Delaware's public school system. We have searched the world for the best practices of school systems that are succeeding. Our plan, Vision 2015, results from an unprecedented level of research, analysis, discussion, debate, and decision-making. To support the Steering Committee, we engaged nearly 80 individuals in work groups, and involved another 400 citizens in more than 50 meetings throughout Delaware. And we engaged two top-flight firms -- The Boston Consulting Group and Cambridge Leadership Associates -- to keep us focused and moving forward. We really did our homework. And we did a lot of it."

Integrate University at Buffalo, downtown

Date Captured

Friday October 13 2006, 9:34 AM

Buffalo News opined, "UB students of architecture and urban planning could benefit from a downtown school that would put them near the terra cotta-clad Guaranty Building, art deco City Hall, glimmering Hauptman-Woodward Research Institute and other structural gems. Law students at a downtown school would have easy access to the courts and the area's major law firms. The university could perform a role in helping boost the city's economic development, urban education and neighborhood stabilization. And downtown would benefit from the students' vitality and the attendant economic benefits, from housing to restaurants, that their presence inevitably would bring."

Schools bridge culture gap

Date Captured

Wednesday October 11 2006, 6:15 AM

The Journal News reports, "The federal No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts to work on parental involvement and to devote 1 percent of Title I funding toward such efforts. For immigrants and other parent groups, the efforts go beyond the traditional PTA structure into new kinds of organizations. All the efforts have grown out of research that ties parental involvement to academic performance."

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL), Harvard start project

Date Captured	Monday October 09 2006, 11:09 PM
Austin Business Journal reports, "Research shows clearly that, with knowledge and support, families can make a difference in their kids' success in school," says Wes Hoover, the lab's president and CEO. 'We look forward to working with Harvard ... to address this critical need.'"

Twin Tiers Outstanding Educator Award

Date Captured	Monday October 09 2006, 7:49 AM
The Star-Gazette reports on award recipient John Cain, "'He [social studies teacher John Cain] encourages debate and discussion so the students will be able to develop their own ideas and opinions,' she [Andrea Morrell] wrote in nominating him for the award. 'Research is an element in his classroom and his students always have to back up their positions with data.'"

CSRQ Center Report on Middle and High School Comprehensive School Reform Models

Date Captured

Friday October 06 2006, 8:31 AM

This Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center report "serves as a consumer guide that will help decision makers sort through claims about which school reform approaches could truly meet the needs of students. The report is the first comprehensive review of middle and high school whole-school reform models ever issued. To prepare this report, the CSRQ Center screened nearly 1,500 documents and reviewed 197 studies on 18 widely implemented middle and high school models. We used rigorous standards that are aligned with the requirements for scientifically based research established by NCLB. Each model is rated on a number of dimensions, including evidence of raising student achievement. The reviews of the individual models provide education decision makers with profiles of each model and the evidence needed to make decisions to meet locally defined needs."

Study: Boozers Aren’t Losers In Earnings

Date Captured	Wednesday October 04 2006, 8:43 AM
The Harvard Crimson reports, "Teenagers who binge-drink during high school may have a harder time finding a job compared to their non-binge drinking counterparts, but when they do land a job, their earning potential averages 6 percent higher, according to researchers in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research last month."

New Jersey property tax committee plans to tackle special ed

Date Captured

Wednesday October 04 2006, 8:13 AM

The Daily Journal reports, "Proposals from the state panel on school-funding reform will focus on reducing the number of special-education students sent to expensive private schools, said committee co-chairman Sen. John Adler. But containing special-education costs is so complex that Pennsylvania and several other states have decided there is no suitable way to figure it out, noted Thomas Parrish of the Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes for Research. They instead rely on other factors such as a district's size and poverty."

Louisiana students to rebuild as they learn trades

Date Captured

Tuesday October 03 2006, 9:05 AM

The Times-Picayune reports, "Participants can obtain their GED while receiving construction training. Those completing the six-month program will receive carpentry certification from the National Center for Construction Education and Research as well as job placement assistance, Magee [executive director] said." During training, they can earn a stipend of up to $5,000 and open a YouthBuild USA Individual Development Account, said Magee."

Letter grades may take on more weight in Elmira schools

Date Captured	Sunday October 01 2006, 10:10 AM
The Star-Gazette reports, "The state [New York] Education Department does not keep track of the number of New York schools that weigh grades. However, nationally about half of America's school systems weight student grades, according to a paper on the subject written in 2000 by Gail C. Downs of the Center for Research and Evaluation."

EDUCATION ISSUE

Date Captured

Saturday September 30 2006, 10:16 AM

The Washington Post Michael Grunwald reports on Reading First, "The centerpiece of the new research-based approach [NCLB goal] was Reading First, a $1 billion-a-year effort to help low-income schools adopt strategies 'that have been proven to prevent or remediate reading failure' through rigorous peer-reviewed studies. 'Quite simply, Reading First focuses on what works, and will support proven methods of early reading instruction,' the Education Department promised. Five years later, an accumulating mound of evidence from reports, interviews and program documents suggests that Reading First has had little to do with science or rigor."

Rochester area colleges light the way to economic vitality for region

Date Captured

Thursday September 28 2006, 6:34 AM

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle guest essayists Joel Seligman, president of University of Rochester and Braveman, president of Nazareth College write, "Area colleges contribute to the quality of the community's social, educational and cultural life. Recent studies have shown that knowledge workers are drawn to a climate in which the arts are thriving. The myriad arts offerings from the Eastman School of Music, the Nazareth College Arts Center and other local colleges provide affordable access to some of the world's most renowned performers and artists, bring thousands of visitors to the area and create an atmosphere that can help attract and retain talent. As local leaders discuss economic development, it is important that they recognize the tremendous opportunities and potential offered by Rochester area colleges. By taking full advantage of university research, university-generated human capital, local business creativity and the full support of all local entities, we can create the kind of environment in which the Rochester economy can flourish and our talented young people will want to build their lives."

It Takes a Parent: Transforming Education in the Wake of the No Child Left Behind Act

Date Captured

Thursday September 28 2006, 1:07 AM

"With the goal of demonstrating the importance of parental involvement as a key strategy for improving student success, this report provides recommendations for education leaders and policymakers. It focuses on three major strands that are crucial to effective parental involvement: 1. Information: The opportunities and challenges of parental awareness about student and school performance; 2. Engagement: The importance of meaningful parental engagement with school officials and teachers; and 3. Advocacy: The critical role that effective parent advocacy, based on good information and informed engagement, plays in student and school performance." The report was produced by Appleseed, in coordination with several other key law firms and groups. Law firm, Holland & Knight, coordinated and carried out much of the research and drafted the final report, with assistance in two states from volunteers from DLA Piper. The National Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP played key roles in gathering and assessing information.

School and Parent Interaction by Household Language and Poverty Status: 2002-03

Date Captured

Wednesday September 27 2006, 3:35 PM

NCES: Language minority parents may face a number of challenges when trying to communicate or become involved with their child’s school. This Issue Brief describes school-to-home communication practices and opportunities for parent involvement at school as reported by parents of U.S. school-age students from primarily English- and primarily Spanish-speaking households during the 2002–03 school year. Among the findings: A greater percentage of students in English-speaking households than in Spanish-speaking households had parents who reported receiving personal notes or e-mails about the student; receiving newsletters, memos, or notices addressed to all parents; opportunities to attend general meetings; opportunities to attend school events; and chances to volunteer. Differences were still apparent after taking poverty status into account. This Issue Brief was prepared by Christine Enyeart, Juliet Diehl, Gillian Hampden-Thompson, and Marion Scotchmer of the American Institutes for Research.

National Science Foundation (NSF) awards $3.3 million grant to Cornell to bolster the percentage of women faculty members

Date Captured	Monday September 25 2006, 8:50 AM
EurekAlert announces, "Cornell is committed to diversity, gender equality and promoting an environment in which all faculty can achieve their potential in research, education and service. The representation of women faculty in the university's science and engineering departments falls too far below the level of female doctorates produced nationally, according to Cornell administrators."

Too much time wasted on homework?

Date Captured

Sunday September 24 2006, 10:05 AM

Philadelpha Inquirer prints Washington Post story by Valerie Strauss, "Elementary school students get no academic benefit from homework - except reading and some basic-skills practice - yet schools require more than ever. High school students studying until dawn probably are wasting their time because there is no academic benefit after two hours a night. For middle schoolers, the benefit ends after 11/2 hours. And perhaps more important, Cooper said, is that most teachers get little or no training on how to create homework assignments that advance learning."

Major Changes Needed to Boost K-8 Science Achievement

Date Captured

Friday September 22 2006, 8:57 AM

Kansas City InfoZine reports, "The commonly held view that young children are simplistic thinkers is outmoded, the report [by the National Research Council] adds. Studies show that children think in surprisingly sophisticated ways. Yet much science education is based on old assumptions, and it focuses on what children cannot do instead of what they can. All children have basic reasoning skills, personal knowledge of the natural world, and curiosity that teachers can build on to achieve proficiency in science."

Results show English scores dropping as New York children get older

Date Captured	Thursday September 21 2006, 1:36 PM
Newsday JOHN HILDEBRAND AND STACEY ALTHERR report, "State education officials declared at a morning news conference the latest results underline an essential point: that public middle schools need to do more to challenge students academically. Research studies have shown that scores in parochial and private schools don't take the same dip in the later grades as the public sector's."

Curry praised as model for teacher education

Date Captured	Thursday September 21 2006, 7:07 AM
Cavalier Daily reports, 'Students [in the Education School] are taught to praise research and to be able to discern what is relevant in research and to use instructional methods that have been proven effective,' Education Prof. Sandy Cohen said. 'We really strive for our students to see themselves as researchers in their own classrooms ... emphasizing the things that work and that don't work'."

Educating School Teachers

Date Captured

Monday September 18 2006, 6:47 PM

Study author Arthur Levine, who recently left the presidency of Teachers College, Columbia University to become president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation concludes "that a majority of teacher education graduates are prepared in university-based programs that suffer from low admission and graduation standards. Their faculties, curriculums and research are disconnected from school practice and practitioners. There are wide variations in program quality, with the majority of teachers prepared in lower quality programs. Both state and accreditation standards for maintaining quality are ineffective."

School Choice: 2006 Progress Report

Date Captured

Monday September 18 2006, 5:46 PM

Dan Lips, Education Analyst and Evan Feinberg, Research Assistant in the Domestic Policy Studies Department at The Heritage Foundation write, "One likely reason for the growing bipartisan support for school choice is the mounting empirical evidence that school choice programs work. Over the past 15 years, the growth of school choice programs has enabled researchers to study the impact of school choice on students, families, and school systems. Students participating in school choice programs have made academic gains when compared to their peers in public school. Importantly, public schools that face competition from choice programs have shown improvement."

Volunteers sought to research school configuration

Date Captured	Friday September 15 2006, 6:48 PM
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin reports, "The Susquehanna Valley Board of Education is still looking for volunteers to research a possible reconfiguration of the school district's two elementary schools. The volunteers will study having one of the schools house kindergarten through second grade students, and the other school house third through fifth grade students, district officials said."

Education Policy Should Not Be Based on Programs that Cannot be Replicated

Date Captured

Thursday September 14 2006, 12:06 PM

Education Finance and Accountability Program at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University (EFAP) Director John Yinger writes, "The use of additional funds does not, of course, guarantee success. Many schools undoubtedly use policies and practices that cost more than equally effective alternatives. But one cannot identify these alternatives simply by looking at a few successful schools. Instead, we need to continue evaluating a wide range of programs to determine which ones can raise student performance under what circumstances and at what cost."

The Future of SUNY

Date Captured

Friday September 08 2006, 9:28 AM

Chancellor John Ryan writes, "After the fall elections, I will urge our state leaders to establish a Blue Ribbon commission that would be made up of a cross-section of stakeholders: business leaders, experienced educators and administrative leaders from New York and comparable states, as well as both a student representative and an international higher education official. The commission would take a comprehensive look at what works best in higher education, not just in New York State, but throughout the country and internationally. After it conducts broad research on SUNY and best practices throughout higher education, the commission would make a series of recommendations regarding SUNY to the governor, the legislature, and SUNY Trustees. These recommendations could then serve as a blueprint for the future of the State University."

Inequality and the Right to Learn: Access to Qualified Teachers in California's Public Schools

Date Captured

Tuesday September 05 2006, 6:46 PM

By Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University. "The article outlines the legal rationale for insisting on access to qualified teachers for all students, analyzes the reasons for the current shortfalls in California, and proposes a set of remedies based on research and policy outcomes elsewhere." Teachers College Record Volume 106 Number 10, 2004, p. 1936-1966. http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 11677, Date Accessed: 9/5/2006 5:46:06 PM

Lower class size push launched on first day of school in New York City

Date Captured

Tuesday September 05 2006, 3:46 PM

The UFT writes, "Research shows that small classes in all grades lead to higher student achievement. The STAR project in Tennessee randomly assigned 6,000 children to small and large classes in kindergarten through third grade and followed them throughout their school careers. The students in small classes did significantly better in the early grades, held on to those gains through high school and were more likely to go to college."

Get involved in education: Parents and residents all have a role to play in teaching our young people

Date Captured	Tuesday September 05 2006, 10:21 AM
The Timberjay opined, "Along similar lines, researchers have found that students benefit when parents attend parent-teacher conferences, support school activities, or help out in classrooms or on field trips. And the earlier this occurs in a child’s educational process, the research says, the more powerful the effects will be."

NCLB Title III Institute Part I: Ensuring Academic Success for English Learners

Date Captured

Monday September 04 2006, 4:58 PM

December 4-6, 2006, Sacramento, CA. Robert Linquanti, Project Director for WestEd's English Learner Evaluation and Accountability Support (ELEAS) services, Linda Carstens, Senior Research Associate for WestEd's ELEAS services, and Ivannia Soto-Hinman, Assistant Professor at Biola University, will lead a three-day institute on ensuring success for English learners. They will be joined by California Department of Education Consultants Cathy George, Judy Lambert, and Marcela Rodriguez.

NCLB Title III Institute Part I: Ensuring Academic Success for English Learners

Date Captured

Monday September 04 2006, 4:55 PM

November 27-29, 2006. Fresno, CA. Robert Linquanti, Project Director for WestEd's English Learner Evaluation and Accountability Support (ELEAS) services, Linda Carstens, Senior Research Associate for WestEd's ELEAS services, and Ivannia Soto-Hinman, Assistant Professor at Biola University, will lead a three-day institute on ensuring success for English learners. They will be joined by California Department of Education Consultants Cathy George, Judy Lambert, and Marcela Rodriguez.

NCLB Title III Institute Part I: Ensuring Academic Success for English Learners

Date Captured

Monday September 04 2006, 4:51 PM

November 13-15, 2006. The Mission Inn , Riverside, CA. Robert Linquanti, Project Director for WestEd's English Learner Evaluation and Accountability Support (ELEAS) services, Linda Carstens, Senior Research Associate for WestEd's ELEAS services, and Ivannia Soto-Hinman, Assistant Professor at Biola University, will lead a three-day institute on ensuring success for English learners. They will be joined by California Department of Education Consultants Cathy George, Judy Lambert, and Marcela Rodriguez.

Are Public or Private Schools Doing Better? How the NCES Study Is Being Misinterpreted

Date Captured

Friday September 01 2006, 2:27 PM

Shanea Watkins, Policy Analyst in Empirical Studies in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation writes, "The NAEP data are certainly not suitable for establishing whether a specific math or reading achievement outcome is associated with attending either a private or public school. Despite this fact, the results of the NCES study are being interpreted inappropriately to imply that voucher programs, which include private schools, are a bad idea. The research literature that addresses the effectiveness of school voucher programs in raising math and reading achievement, based on more sophisticated methodology, is much more convincing and conclusive. Students who attend a private school through a voucher program experience greater gains in math and reading than do their public school counterparts."

Affirmation Exercise Dramatically Alters Racial Achievement Gap

Date Captured	Thursday August 31 2006, 1:14 PM
Medical News Today reports, "'People subjected to widely known negative stereotypes impugning the intelligence of their group are aware of these negative characterizations and may worry that performing poorly could confirm the stereotype of their group,' said Julio Garcia, associate research scientist in the Psychology Department at Yale."

Vanderbilt University to study link between teacher incentives, student performance

Date Captured	Wednesday August 30 2006, 7:31 PM
The Tennessean reports, "A national research and development center designed to answer questions such as 'do financial incentives for teachers, administrators and schools affect student achievement?' will make its home at Vanderbilt University."

SAT scores fall by largest margin in 31 years: Changeover to lengthier exam cited as national average drops 7 points

Date Captured

Tuesday August 29 2006, 8:45 PM

AP reports, "The new exam has been expanded from three hours to three hours, 45 minutes, and can take more than a full morning counting prep time and breaks. Some parents and fair-testing advocates predicted the longer exam would cause scores to decline, but the College Board said its research showed no drop-off in student performance as the test goes on. Still, the results will spark debate over whether the College Board -- also facing criticism over 4,000 incorrectly scored exams last year --was able to deliver a new test that is comparable to the old one."

The Why Chromosome: How a Teacher's Gender Affects Boys and Girls

Date Captured	Tuesday August 29 2006, 9:34 AM
Thomas Dee, associate professor in the Department of Economics at Swarthmore College and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research writes, "Adverse gender effects have an impact on both boys and girls, but that effect falls more heavily on the male half of the population in middle school, simply because most middleschool teachers are female."

Don't confuse learning with research skirmish

Date Captured

Saturday August 26 2006, 9:35 AM

Times Union Op-Ed contributor JEANNE ALLEN, Center for Education Reform, Washington, D.C. responds to "It's wrong to declare the charter school movement as revolutionary," Aug. 14 Op-Ed, "Mr. Morse closes his letter saying: 'If our government intends to seriously address the root causes of poor performing schools, our elected leaders must look to the origins of poverty, illiteracy and school failure, and not continue to exploit urban school children and their struggles for their own political gain.' We couldn't agree more. And to that we might add that research war skirmishes have nothing to do with parents wanting to send their children to a school that works."

Two new schools enhance Binghamton University links to community

Date Captured	Friday August 25 2006, 9:19 AM
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin Op-Ed contributor Binghamton University president Lois B. DeFleur writes, "The School of Education also addresses community needs by preparing outstanding teachers and administrative leaders; by conducting educational research; and by developing new partnerships with school districts."

Education by gender

Date Captured

Friday August 25 2006, 8:00 AM

Palladium-Item reports on upcoming release of gender regulations, "Washington deserves some belated credit for getting with it and recognizing that maybe gender-specific education does have a role -- albeit a controlled and monitored role -- in the public schools. Countless parochial schools, including notably Catholic schools, have demonstrated the merit to this approach. Some differences in learning especially at some earlier ages, research shows, can be attributed to gender."

Federal grant to fund arts education research

Date Captured	Thursday August 24 2006, 9:20 AM
The Star Bulletin reports, "The grant will be given to Arts First Hawaii, a consortium of organizations including the Hawaii Arts Alliance, DOE, University of Hawaii College of Education, UH College of Arts and Humanities, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and Hawaii Association of Independent Schools."

Researchers Yearn to Use AOL Logs, but They Hesitate

Date Captured	Wednesday August 23 2006, 10:18 AM
NY Times reports, "Companies occasionally mete data out to academic researchers. Microsoft has done this, but in a controlled fashion. Yahoo shares some statistical data with researchers who are approved case by case through an internal vetting program, according to Joanna Stevens, a company spokeswoman, but query data, she said, has never been distributed."

A Summary of the Current Research on California's Effectiveness at Improving Student Achievement

Date Captured	Tuesday August 22 2006, 7:07 PM
Key Findings: "The available research, presented chronologically below, shows that by introducing high-quality and innovative approaches into public education, California’s charter public schools are having a positive impact on the state’s public school system."

Single-Sex Versus Coeducation Schooling: A Systematic Review

Date Captured

Monday August 21 2006, 5:07 PM

"This report deals primarily with single-sex education at the elementary and secondary levels. Research in the United States on the question of whether public single-sex education might be beneficial to males, females or a subset of either group (particularly disadvantaged youths) has been limited. However, because there has been a resurgence of single-sex schools in the public sector, it was deemed appropriate to conduct a systematic review of single-sex education research."U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, Policy and Program Studies Service, Single-Sex Versus Secondary Schooling: A Systematic Review, Washington, D.C., 2005.

North Carolina schools: Will smaller lead to better?

Date Captured

Sunday August 20 2006, 7:19 PM

New Record reports, "But new research suggests small schools might not offer much academic improvement to the students who need it the most. And opponents say small schools limit the variety in courses and extracurricular activities, such as sports, that often are all that keeps some students from dropping out. Even small-schools advocates admit that breaking down high schools doesn't always work. And that by itself, small is not the answer."

Research ‘sparse’ on reconfiguring schools

Date Captured

Friday August 18 2006, 8:13 AM

The Mercury reports on Pennsylvania local school presentation, "It notes there are a number of factors for the community to consider when pondering any change in configuration. They include costs, the potential to increase or decrease parental involvement, 'the effect on whether the neighborhood schools close or remain open,' the effect on student achievement, 'the opportunity for interaction between age groups' and whether existing buildings can be used. All of these topics were raised during the March meeting with the public."

ACRL seeks nominations for 2007 awards recognizing outstanding achievements in academic librarianship

Date Captured

Tuesday August 15 2006, 11:11 AM

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) "urges members to nominate colleagues whose work has influenced their thinking and growth as an academic librarian and whose contributions merit recognition by the profession. Member nominations will ensure that the pool of candidates for each award remains both competitive and distinguished. Nominations and supporting materials for most awards must be submitted by December 1, 2006."

Oklahoma senator asks University of Rochester: Retrace funding

Date Captured	Monday August 14 2006, 8:15 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports, "A U.S. senator [Tom Coburn] is demanding that University of Rochester and dozens of other top research universities across the country explain where federal funds earmarked for research went."

CLASS $TRUGGLE: LITTLE RETURN ON 13G PER STUDENT

Date Captured	Sunday August 13 2006, 9:52 AM
NY Post reports on education return on investment, "But despite the dollars being doled out, student achievement per buck was astonishingly low in New York state - which ranked in the bottom five in the U.S., along with New Jersey, Alaska, Connecticut and the District of Columbia, according to a 2004 report by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research."

Iowa Gov. Vilsack urges innovation in Iowa schools: Suggests creative solutions, such as mix of ages in classroom

Date Captured	Saturday August 12 2006, 2:20 PM
Des Moines Register reports on Iowa school reforms initiatives to improve international competition, "Multi-age classes are already held at the Downtown School in Des Moines, which also uses other research-based practices such as parental involvement, a longer school year, ungraded classes and small class sizes."

Commission on the Future of Higher Education Report Urges Higher Education Shake-Up

Date Captured

Friday August 11 2006, 12:29 AM

NY Times reports on concerns of some commission members, "Another council member, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, which represents 900 private institutions including liberal arts colleges, major research universities and church- and other faith-related colleges, attacked the recommendation to develop a national database to follow individual students’ progress as a way of holding colleges accountable for students’ success. The association called the proposal a dangerous intrusion on privacy, saying, 'Our members find this idea chilling.'”

University Tries to Make Texas a Science Force

Date Captured	Thursday August 10 2006, 2:14 AM
The NY Times reports, "In an effort to make Texas a magnet for scientific and medical research, the University of Texas is planning a $2.5 billion program to expand research and teaching in the sciences, including medicine and technology."

Debate school vouchers without injecting race

Date Captured	Wednesday August 09 2006, 11:10 PM
USA op-ed contributor Kevin Chavous, Distinguished fellow, Center for Education Reform opined on school vouchers, "Let's also make sure we know the truth, which is that children who have choices do better than those who do not. The research is abundant, as are stories of triumph when America's impoverished families are given the opportunity to choose the schools their children attend."

UCSC shows its growth as a research university

Date Captured	Wednesday August 09 2006, 9:31 PM
Santa Cruz Sentinel reports, "The $128.5 million in grants the school [University of California Santa Cruz] received during the last academic year continues a trend of research funding and signifies the university's steady evolution as a research institution, university officials said."

Research Finds Vigorous Exercise Equals Better Academics

Date Captured	Saturday August 05 2006, 11:09 PM
Medical News reported on increased academic achievment observed in students participating in sports, "This is noteworthy because in this day of 'No Child Left Behind' and standardized testing, many public school boards think physical education is a luxury they just can't afford."

Maryland Gov. consolidates early learning with education

Date Captured

Friday August 04 2006, 8:14 AM

Baltimore Sun op-ed contributor Sandra J. Skolnik, executive director of the Maryland Committee for Children writes, " Consolidating early care and education with K-to-12 education is a move supported by research, logic, and economics, creating a continuum of development from birth through grade 12. And yet, it breaks with decades of thinking that held 'education' in the K-12 silo while state involvement in early care has been largely the purview of social service departments. It required vision from Maryland's governor, legislative leaders, and state school superintendent to make a break with past thinking and with entrenched bureaucratic interests. It remains to be seen whether other states will muster the political will to do so."

Instant msg-ing messes with grammar? As if! lol!

Date Captured

Thursday August 03 2006, 7:34 AM

University at Toronto writes on research by linguists Sali Tagliamonte and Derek Denis, "The study finds that instant messaging language does mirror patterns in speech, but that teens, surprisingly, are actually using a fusion of different levels of diction. Teens are using both informal forms that their English teachers would never allow, yet they also use formal writing phrasing that, if used in speech, would likely be considered 'uncool.'”

Salaries down for teachers, up for superintendents

Date Captured	Thursday July 27 2006, 10:22 AM
Bloomberg News reports, "The average U.S. teacher salary fell 0.1 percent in the past school year to $46,953, while pay for superintendents rose 1.1 percent, according to a survey by the nonprofit Educational Research Service."

Arizona state dollars jump-start autism research

Date Captured	Tuesday July 25 2006, 2:55 PM
The Arizona Republic reports, "The appropriation, included with the fiscal 2007 state budget, is especially important because it will allow researchers to jump-start their work, said Dr. Dietrich Stephan, TGen's director of neurogenomics and head of the autism research program."

Education studies show: $$ wasted on them

Date Captured

Tuesday July 25 2006, 10:42 AM

Boston Herald op-ed contributor Star Parker, president of Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) writes, "Choice, competition and freedom are core values that define what we are about as a nation. The Bush administration proposal to appropriate $100 million in opportunity scholarships for poor kids in failing schools is a needed program. Let’s use our limited taxpayer dollars to enhance education freedom and not on superfluous research."

Oswego to have Universal Pre-K

Date Captured	Tuesday July 25 2006, 9:07 AM
The Post-Standard reports, "The short-term benefits are readiness for kindergarten, a smoother transition to school and exposure to literacy and numeration. Research shows pre-kindergarten participants are less likely to (fail a grade) or be placed in special education. As adults, they are more likely to get better jobs and earn more money."

New Report Shows Progress in Reading First Implementation and Changes in Reading Instruction

Date Captured

Monday July 24 2006, 10:01 PM

The report shows "Reading First schools appear to be implementing the major elements of the program as intended by the No Child Left Behind legislation. Reading First respondents reported that they made substantial changes to their reading materials and that the instruction is more likely to be aligned with scientifically based reading research; they are more likely to have scheduled reading blocks and spend more time teaching reading; they are more likely to apply assessment results for instructional purposes, and they receive professional development focused on helping struggling readers more often than non-Reading First Title I schools in the evaluation."

The best education may be single-sexed

Date Captured	Monday July 24 2006, 3:13 PM
The News & Advance reports, "A study released just last week from the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research (IUCPR) suggests that students at women’s colleges 'are better served in their educational pursuits than their peers at coeducational institutions.'"

Northwest Regional Education Laboratory

Date Captured	Sunday July 23 2006, 3:18 PM

Public School Finance Programs of the United States and Canada: 1998–99 (NEW YORK STATE)

Date Captured

Saturday July 22 2006, 10:14 PM

NEW YORK: Funding for public education in New York comes from three sources: approximately 4% from federal sources, 40% from state formula aids and grants, and 56% from local revenues. The descriptive information in this publication is designed to be useful to the education finance research community and fiscal policy analysts whose backgrounds and training are very diverse. Brian O. Brent, Warner Graduate School, University of Rochester. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Public School Finance Programs of the United States and Canada: 1998–99. NCES 2001–309; Compilers Catherine C. Sielke, John Dayton, C. Thomas Holmes, of The University of Georgia and Anne L. Jefferson of the University of Ottawa. William J. Fowler, Jr., Project Officer. Washington, DC: 2001.

Preparing Principals for High-Need Rural Schools: A Central Office Perspective about Collaborative Efforts to Transform School Leadership

Date Captured

Saturday July 22 2006, 8:30 PM

This article presents district administrators’ reflections about (a) the contextual challenges they face in leading a high-need rural school system in Central Appalachia and (b) the change initiatives they implemented to transform the principalship from school management to instructional leadership. The article presents perspectives by the district administrators and leadership educators involved in the district-initiated activities to change the culture of administrative practice. Browne-Ferrigno, T., & Allen, L. W. (2006, February 10). Preparing principal for high-need rural schools: A central office perspective about collaborative efforts to transform school leadership. Journal of Research in Rural Education, 21(1). Retrieved 7/22/2006 from http://www.umaine.edu/jrre/21-1.htm

What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)

Date Captured	Thursday July 20 2006, 11:30 PM

New approach on deaf literacy heartening

Date Captured	Thursday July 20 2006, 7:39 AM
Times Union AP reports, "The system is gaining popularity with new research, a grass-roots movement and new funding aimed at improving reading scores under the federal No Child Left Behind Law."

Fathers of U.S. Children Born in 2001: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort

Date Captured

Wednesday July 19 2006, 10:33 AM

This NCES publication presents information on specific demographic characteristics of resident and nonresident biological fathers’ involvement in pregnancy and birth, fathers’ attitudes about fathering, and father involvement. By Kirsten Ellingsen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Christine Winquist Nord, Westat; Frank Avenilla, Education Statistics Services Institute; Emily Rosenthal, Teachers College, Columbia University; Jerry West, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

U Albany courts connections to Chinese counterparts

Date Captured	Wednesday July 19 2006, 9:16 AM
Albany Times Union reports, "U Albany is in the final stages of developing a "full-scale academic and entrepreneurial agreement" with East China Normal, Nanjing, Fudan and Sichuan universities, according to Hall. East China Normal signed an agreement with Albany on May 11 for an exchange program for students, faculty and research ideas."

Just for the Kids Best Practice Studies: Findings from New York Schools

Date Captured	Wednesday July 19 2006, 8:14 AM
Research teams investigated 10 consistently higher performing and five averageperforming elementary schools to determine the differences in practices between higher and average performing elementary schools.

Columbia Teachers College Shares in $10 million Award for National Federal Research Center on Postsecondary Education

Date Captured	Friday July 14 2006, 6:30 PM
Columbia University reports, "The center will focus its work on the efforts of two- and four-year institutions to improve access to higher education and the rates at which students earn a degree. Studies will investigate the effectiveness of dual enrollment programs and learning communities in preparing low-skill students for success in college."

New Research Looks to Boost Second-Language Literacy

Date Captured	Friday July 14 2006, 10:44 AM
Newswise reports, "The report analyzes data on teaching reading and writing to language-minority students and identifies gaps in available research."

Principal: Drug-testing students works

Date Captured	Wednesday July 12 2006, 8:02 AM
USA Today Donna Leinwand writes, "Little research has been done on testing's impact on student drug use because it's difficult and expensive to study, says Lloyd Johnston of the Monitoring the Future study at the University of Michigan, which surveys 50,000 students a year."

Report: NEA pays opponents of No Child Left Behind law

Date Captured	Monday July 10 2006, 10:39 PM
By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY reports, "The nation's largest teachers union has spent more than $8 million in a stealth campaign against President Bush's education reform law, paying for research and political opposition in an effort to derail it, according to a Washington think tank that supports the law."

Teacher Policy Research (TPR)

Date Captured	Saturday July 08 2006, 6:46 PM
Teacher Policy Research (TPR) is a research partnership between the University at Albany and Stanford University that examines the behavior of teachers and administrators with the goal of developing policies that will both attract and retain high-quality teachers and leaders, especially in low-performing schools.

President Bush calls for more spending on science

Date Captured	Saturday July 08 2006, 4:49 PM
USA Today reports AP story, "He also wants to train thousand of new science and math teachers and extend a popular tax credit businesses can receive for investing in research and development. The total price tag over 10 years would be $136 billion."

Singapore: America's next college town

Date Captured	Saturday July 08 2006, 8:54 AM
CNETnews.com reports, "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Research Foundation of Singapore on Friday announced plans to establish a major, new research center in Singapore in 2007."

Education Finance and Accountability Program (EFAP)

Date Captured	Friday July 07 2006, 4:06 PM
This program is part of the well-known, multi-disciplinary Center for Policy Research.

Research on urban K-8 schools' performance offers mixed results

Date Captured	Friday July 07 2006, 9:53 AM
Shreveporttimes.com reports, "For at least a decade, urban school systems have moved away from middle schools with sixth, seventh and eighth grades to K-8 campuses."

Tax dollars to fund study on restricting public data

Date Captured	Wednesday July 05 2006, 11:05 PM
USA Today reports, "The federal government will pay a Texas law school $1 million to do research aimed at rolling back the amount of sensitive data available to the press and public through freedom-of-information requests."

Mindless reading seen as fundamental

Date Captured	Monday July 03 2006, 9:55 PM
USA Today reports, "In a new study of college students, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of British Columbia established a way to study mindless reading in a lab."

Federal authorities investigate Yale University's accounting practices

Date Captured	Monday July 03 2006, 9:43 PM
Yale Daily News reports, "Yale, a perennial recipient of lucrative federal funding and an influential advocate in Washington, D.C. for higher education, is now under a sweeping federal investigation for how it manages the millions of dollars it receives in research grants each year, University officials said Friday."

Boost for free internet access to public-funded research

Date Captured	Monday July 03 2006, 9:57 AM
The Guardian reports, "The push for so-called open access to publicly funded academic research got a boost yesterday as the body which oversees the UK's eight research councils came out in support of placing articles published in subscription journals, but based on work paid for by taxpayers, on the internet for free."

Is the No Child Left Behind Act Working? The Reliability of How States Track Achievement

Date Captured

Friday June 30 2006, 10:00 AM

This new PACE working paper traces how 12 diverse states have reported on student achievement trends, 1992-2005. Trend lines often follow jagged, saw-tooth patterns over time -- as state education officials change testing companies, shift the bar defining "proficient" performance, and teachers spend more time on test preparation activities. The PACE research team also confirmed earlier findings that many states report much higher shares of fourth-graders "proficient" in reading and math, compared with the percentage of students found to be proficient under the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Following the January 2002 passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, states have continued to report annual gains in reading proficiency, while the federal assessment indicates that fourth-graders' performance has flatten-out. Together, these factors lead to state test score patterns that are difficult for parents and local educators to interpret. Recommendations are advanced for bringing state and federal testing systems into closer alignment.

Less-costly alternatives to Prop. 82 could yield better results

Date Captured	Wednesday June 28 2006, 8:07 AM
RUSSELL W. RUMBERGER is professor of education and director of the University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute at UC-Santa Barbara. He wrote this article for the Mercury News.

The Shape Of The Starting Line

Date Captured	Tuesday June 27 2006, 9:39 AM
Produced By: Tom Sgouros. This report contains a review of some important research findings about the links between poverty and academic success, and research relevant to several popular school reform proposals. It also covers matters relating to professional practice, school conditions, literacy and early childhood education.

"Resilient and Reaching for More: The Challenges and Benefits of Higher Education for Welfare Participants and their Children"

Date Captured	Tuesday June 20 2006, 9:44 PM
This Institute for Women's Policy Research report examines both the challenges and pay-offs associated with acquiring higher education under the tight constraints of welfare reform.

Did outreach really work? Cornell team will develop tools to evaluate science and technology education

Date Captured	Monday June 19 2006, 1:39 PM

U of Rochester aims to help at-risk kids

Date Captured	Monday June 19 2006, 8:14 AM

Poverty & Race Research Action Council

Date Captured	Friday June 16 2006, 10:36 PM

Researcher collaboration is key

Date Captured	Friday June 16 2006, 9:08 AM

Reforms That Could Help Narrow the Achievement Gap

Date Captured	Thursday June 15 2006, 9:08 AM
Richard Rothstein, Research Associate of the Economic Policy Institute, outlines a series of reforms, in addition to school improvement, that could help narrow the achievement gap.

Holding Colleges and Universities Accountable for Meeting State Needs

Date Captured

Saturday June 10 2006, 9:57 AM

By Alicia A. Diaz, Joan Lord and Joseph L. Marks. This report, a part of the Challenge to Lead education goals series, looks at states' annual reports for higher education accountability and recommends that states develop public agendas for higher education. It also describes states' progress on key indicators: higher education graduation rates, faculty salaries, and science and research funding. SREB states have improved, but work remains to be done.

"Taking Preschool Education Seriously as an Economic Development Program: Effects on Jobs and Earnings of State Residents Compared to Traditional Economic Development Programs"

Date Captured	Thursday June 08 2006, 7:12 AM
Timothy Bartik, Senior Economist, The Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

Survey: South needs more research and education

Date Captured	Monday June 05 2006, 9:22 AM

Thesis contradicts previous research on classroom sexism

Date Captured	Wednesday May 31 2006, 8:51 AM

Education Leadership Institute (ELI)

Date Captured	Saturday May 27 2006, 1:17 PM

Site connects users to education research

Date Captured	Thursday May 25 2006, 12:15 PM

What Research Says About Small Classes and Their Effects.

Date Captured	Thursday May 25 2006, 9:46 AM
Bruce J. Biddle and David C. Berliner, Education Policy Reports Project (EPRP), Arizona State University.

Call for Comment on Reading Standards; Revised NCATE Reading Standards Incorporate Recent Research

Date Captured	Monday May 22 2006, 4:05 PM

High Technology Award to Boost Small-scale System Research at Binghamton University

Date Captured	Sunday May 21 2006, 6:53 PM

SAGE Partners With The National Association Of Secondary School Principals

Date Captured	Sunday May 21 2006, 11:11 AM

U.S. Will Study Rules on Foreign Students' Research

Date Captured	Tuesday May 16 2006, 5:55 PM

Boston University School of Social Work receives grant to study post-foster care adolescents

Date Captured	Tuesday May 16 2006, 2:39 PM

UAlbany is named top U.S. nanotech college

Date Captured	Saturday May 13 2006, 8:46 AM

HAROLD S. KOPLEWICZ, M.D. NAMED DIRECTOR OF NATHAN S. KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH

Date Captured	Friday May 12 2006, 9:37 AM

UAlbany expands its global reach

Date Captured	Friday May 12 2006, 9:08 AM

"Chicanas from Outer Space" Educational Research Is an Education!

Date Captured	Monday May 08 2006, 2:46 PM

Some Publishers of Scholarly Journals Dislike Bill to Require Online Access to Articles (NY Times registration)

Date Captured	Monday May 08 2006, 10:14 AM

Taxpayer Alliance Supports Senate Bill Broadening Access To Federal Research

Date Captured	Saturday May 06 2006, 10:35 PM

Should the federal government be involved in school accountability?

Date Captured	Wednesday May 03 2006, 6:43 PM
This debate between EPI research associate Richard Rothstein and Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek, on the role of the federal government in education, was featured in the Winter 2005 issue of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

Bill to expand online access to research

Date Captured	Wednesday May 03 2006, 4:36 PM

NASA's Office of Education Minority University Research and Education Program is requesting proposals for an agency cooperative agreement notice

Date Captured	Monday May 01 2006, 7:24 PM

Research Offers Lessons for Improving Low-Performing High Schools; Studies Address Five Challenges Facing Educators

Date Captured	Monday May 01 2006, 11:36 AM
To read full report see education new york online EDUCATION POLICY page, SCHOOL REFORM folder.

Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform: Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models

Date Captured

Monday May 01 2006, 11:29 AM

Janet Quint , 2006. Recent MDRC evaluations of three high school reform models — Career Academies, First Things First, and Talent Development — offer hope that comprehensive programs can improve low-performing high schools. This research synthesis for policymakers and practitioners offers practical lessons for creating personalized learning environments, helping struggling freshmen, improving instruction, preparing students for the world beyond high school, and stimulating change in overstressed high schools.

RESEARCH ON EARLY LEARNING

Date Captured	Monday May 01 2006, 10:37 AM

Educators, lawmakers hopeful about South Carolina lottery-funded program

Date Captured	Sunday April 30 2006, 5:24 PM

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute And Cleveland Clinic Establish Biomedical Research Collaboration

Date Captured	Friday April 28 2006, 1:55 PM

Nevada Sen. Ensign Encourages Innovation in Education

Date Captured	Wednesday April 26 2006, 5:50 PM

The Devaluing of Higher Education

Date Captured	Monday April 24 2006, 1:58 PM
The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession 2005-06. Faculty compensation data were collected, compiled, and tabulated by the AAUP Research Office

Project to vet education reports for bias

Date Captured	Tuesday April 18 2006, 9:11 AM

AERA Meeting Features Teacher's College Faculty and Student Research

Date Captured	Sunday April 09 2006, 3:18 PM

Budget aids parents, schools, hurts businesses, research

Date Captured	Sunday April 02 2006, 11:13 AM

Teacher Qualifications, Instructional Practices, and Reading and Mathematics Gains of Kindergartners

Date Captured

Wednesday March 29 2006, 11:23 AM

This Research and Development (R&D) report uses data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) to explore relationships between kindergarten teachers' reports of their qualifications and instructional practices and direct assessments of children's reading and mathematics achievement during the kindergarten year. Spending more time on subject and working within a full-day kindergarten structure were found to be associated with relatively large gains in achievement.

The incidence and impacts of student transiency in upstate New York’s rural school districts

Date Captured

Thursday February 16 2006, 1:58 PM

Schafft, K. A. (2005, December 22). The incidence and impacts of student transiency in upstate New York’s rural school districts. Journal of Research in Rural Education, 20(15). Chronic student mobility, and in particular the mobility of students from low-income backgrounds, poses a serious yet underdocumented problem for rural schools. This article combines analyses of state-level school district data with survey and interview data to examine the patterns of low-income student mobility in upstate New York, and to assess the impacts on, and responses by, schools and other community institutions.

Genetic and environmental influences on early literacy

Date Captured

Thursday February 09 2006, 11:31 AM

Brian Byrne, Richard K. Olson, Stefan Samuelsson, Sally Wadsworth, Robin Corley, John C. DeFries and Erik Willcutt. Prereading and early reading skills analyses indicate a strong genetic influence on preschool phonological awareness, rapid naming and verbal memory. (note: for definitive version see Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 29 Page 33 - February 2006, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9817.2006.00291.x or www.blackwell-synergy.com)

School Vouchers: The Research Track Record, Student Acheivement

Date Captured	Monday December 05 2005, 7:59 AM
This research brief summarizes the most recent evidence on the impact of private school vouchers on student achievement, particularly among low-income youngsters.