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10 Effective Study Tips and Techniques to Try This Year | USAHS

Get a good night's sleep: A 2019 study found a positive relationship between students' grades and how much sleep they're getting. However, this ...

Future of Testing in Education: The Way Forward for State ...

... and at worst, if they harm students and punish teachers and schools. ... Studies of New Hampshire's PACE program show small observed ...

Twenty Ways You Can Help Your Children Succeed At School

... children do better and have better feelings about going to school. In fact, many studies show that what the family does is more important to a child's ...

It's Time to Tell the Kids: If You Don't Do Well in High School, You ...

But research shows that effort during high school is absolutely essential. Take homework, for example: Students doing no homework end up with 1.2 years less ...

New research shows controversial Reading Recovery program ...

The new, federally funded study found that children who received Reading Recovery had scores on state reading tests in third and fourth grade that were below ...

What's Wrong With Standardized Tests? (Updated October 2023)

NCLB has led to a huge increase in testing. It requires state testing of every student in grades 3-8 and once in high school, more than twice previous federal ...

What do international tests really show about U.S. student ...

A sampling error in the U.S. administration of the most recent international (PISA) test resulted in students from the most disadvantaged ...

New Study Finds Alarming Lack of Civic Literacy Among Americans

“Put plainly, you can't fix what you don't understand,” Crow said. “Without reversing these deficiencies in understanding how our government ...

The Dangerous Consequences of High-Stakes Testing, FairTest, the ...

Science, social studies, art or physical education may be eliminated if only language arts and math are tested. Important topics and skills that cannot be ...

The Pros and Cons of Standardized Testing - Whitby School

Educators frequently start “teaching to the test” if they feel that their evaluations (and jobs) solely depend on how well students perform. Educators may also ...

Parental Involvement in Your Child's Education

What's more, researchers say when this happens, the motivation, behavior and academic performance of all children at a particular school improve ...

A new take on the 'marshmallow test': When it comes to resisting ...

While research is mixed, many studies found that preschoolers who waited longer did better on academic test scores, were less likely to exhibit ...

A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies

When Group 1 students took the online quizzes, they did significantly better than those participating in discussions, but no difference was found between ...

Time to Learn: Benefits of a Longer School Day | Reading Rockets

In this book we take you inside new day classrooms to show how children ... Keep your hand raised if you think that these children would be better off ...

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A new federal study shows the setbacks of pandemic, Delta kids. ... American kids or for ... kids that are below proficient when we know we can do better.

Study: Preschool gives a big boost to college attendance | MIT News

The study examines children who attended public preschools in Boston from 1997 to 2003. It finds that among students of similar backgrounds, ...

Standardized tests aren't biased, says new data—but scores reflect ...

What we find is that these test scores are more predictive than high school grades, even when comparing students of the same family income, race ...

Federal Efforts Helped Bolster U.S. Education Standing Among Peer ...

As such, based on existing work, one can infer that test scores would have been 3-8 percent of a standard deviation lower than what we see ...

The Benefits of Socioeconomically and Racially Integrated Schools ...

Controlling carefully for students' family background, another study found that students in mixed-income schools showed 30 percent more growth ...

Kids Do Better on the Marshmallow Test When They Cooperate

Children have more self-control when they are cooperating on a team rather than working alone, a new study suggests.