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$11.5 Million New Approach to Expanding the School Day Launches Nationally
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Students in Baltimore and New Orleans are reaping the benefits of a longer school day and an exciting range of new learning opportunities through ExpandED Schools, an initiative built on partnerships between schools and community-based organizations.
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92.5% of Full-Time College Students Show "Persistence" and Stay in School, Says New Report
Thursday, December 8, 2011
For the students studied by the National Student Clearinghouse, this means they either continued enrollment during the next term after fall 2010 or completed their degree, even if either occurred at a different U.S. higher education institution.
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New report warns that student science achievement threatened by alarming state variations in measuring learning
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Lack of consistency across states creates patchwork of "proficiency" requirements and misleading information on how well students are being prepared for high school, college and careers.
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Feb. 7 Webinar Focuses on Locating Performance Data
An unprecedented amount of empirical information is now available about how students and schools are performing, but it's not always easy to find. At EWA's next webinar — Mining the Data: What States Have and Where to Find It — Elizabeth Laird
of the Data Quality Campaign will provide an update on states’ progress
toward collecting and using education data. She'll also reveal what's available from your states, concentrating
on how to link K-12 and postsecondary data to explore issues like
college and career readiness, college remediation, and other topics.
Join us Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 1 p.m. Click here to register!
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Browse and View Past EWA Webinars
If you couldn't make it to a live broadcast of a previous EWA webinar, we've collected all of them in one place. We'll update our webinars page as new events happen, so bookmark it and return regularly!
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Meet the EWA Research Roundtable
EWA has formed a roundtable of 12 researchers who will review upcoming studies and offer reporters guidance on covering research. The panel will review upcoming briefs for journalists on what studies say on various education topics. The researchers hail from think tanks, regional laboratories, and top universities.
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What Studies Say About Teacher Effectiveness
EWA has published a new research brief for journalists on what studies tell us about topics that arise often in the debate over teacher effectiveness. The first of a series of EWA research briefs, the paper tackles such timely questions as whether teachers are indeed the most important factor in student achievement; whether value-added measures are reliable; whether advanced degrees or merit pay make a difference; and how students are affected by having several effective--or ineffective--teachers in a row. You can read it all online or download the whole paper. Please give it a read and tell us what you think!
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EWA Webinar Unlocks Secrets of SAT Data
States love to brag when their SAT scores go up, and are quick to offer reasons why they went down. How can reporters see through the spin and put their states in context?
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Higher Ed Seminar Agenda Now Available
On Nov. 4-5, 2011, the Education Writers Association will hold its annual Higher Education Seminar in Los Angeles, hosted by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. We're excited to unveil our agenda. Learn more about the conference, submit your registration and apply for travel subsidies here.
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EWA's 2012 National Seminar Coming to Philadelphia
The National Education Writers Association is pleased to announce that its 2012 National Seminar will take place May 17-19 on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Under an innovative partnership, EWA's 65th annual National Seminar will be jointly hosted by Penn's Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Washington-based national research association for 25,000 scholars engaged in research in education and learning.
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Recent Articles and Reports
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Why Urban, Educated Parents Are Turning to DIY Education
\We think of homeschoolers as evangelicals or off-the-gridders who spend a lot of time at kitchen tables in the countryside. And it’s true that most homeschooling parents do so for moral or religious reasons. But education observers believe that is changing. Linda Perlstein, Newsweek, Jan. 30, 2012
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Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain
Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives beyond academics, including lower teenage-pregnancy rates and greater college matriculation and adult earnings, according to a new study that tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years. Annie Lowrey, The New York Times, Jan. 6, 2012
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Cashing In On Kids
The Miami Herald has an ongoing series of stories looking at charter schools in Florida. Among the issues it examines: The lack of check and balances for companies running charter schools; the lack of access to charter schools for special education students; and demographic imbalances. State Impact Florida/NPR collaborated on some of the stories. Kathleen McGrory and Scott Hiassen, Miami Herald; John O’Connor and Sarah Gonzalez, State Impact Florida
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Florida Charter Schools: Big Money, Little Oversight
The state's charter school movement has grown into $400-million-a-year powerhouse backed by real-estate developers and promoted by politicians, but with little oversight. Scott Hiaasen and Kathleen McGrory, Miami Herald, Dec. 10, 2011
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