States and schools receiving funding under a $7 billion Obama administration investment in Race to the Top and School Improvement Grants generally used more of the education principles embedded in those programs than those not receiving such grants, a new report released by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of ...
AIR experts will discuss research-based methodologies, practices and professional development approaches for improving schools and districts at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement January 3-6, 2015 in Cincinnati, OH.
Disparities persist in educational achievement for students of color and low-income students. In this video interview, Darren Woodruff, principal researcher at AIR, explains how schools can create a climate to help reduce the achievement gap and help all students learn.
Through Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS), students, their families, and the local community can receive academic, social, and health services, which can contribute to better educational outcomes for students. In 2023, the Lewis University Community School Consortium received a Full-Service Community Schools Program grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Through ...
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
The overarching theme repeatedly heard over the two-day Black Male Summit at Morehouse College recently: African American males feel disconnected, misunderstood, and inadequately supported by teachers, principals, and others involved in running their schools. In this blog post, Darren Woodruff details some of the alarming data that emerged from the ...
The process through which a school adopts a comprehensive school reform (CSR) model has been suggested to be a key element in the lifecycle of school reform, contributing to stakeholder buy-in and subsequent implementation. In this paper, we study the model adoption process, both on a national scale with survey ...
The states in REL Southeast's region include schools in rural, suburban, and urban settings which face high poverty, growing populations of English learners, and low graduation rates. At the same time, states are committed to meeting the challenge of higher student standards.
Many states are attempting to identify schools that perform better than schools with similar populations. Such “beating-the-odds” schools offer opportunities to identify promising practices that can be implemented by other ...
Using data from a large-scale program evaluation of comprehensive school reform (CSR), the authors of this report examine the role of social capital in the context of CSR.