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- April 23, 2013
"It is well-known that teachers systematically sort across schools, disadvantaging low-income, minority and low-achieving students," said Demetra Kalogrides, a research associate at the Graduate School of Education's Center for Education Policy Analysis and one of the study's three authors. "Our findings are novel because they address the assignment of teachers to classes within schools. We cannot assume that teacher sorting stops at the school doors."
- April 21, 2013
The Graduate School of Education and the Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning are partnering to advance research on how people learn.
Mitchell Stevens, associate professor of education, has been appointed to a newly created position — director of digital research and planning — in which he will help bridge research efforts in the Office of the Vice Provost of Online Learning and the Graduate School of Education. This is a two-year appointment effective immediately.
- April 06, 2013
A little pocket of Los Angeles County tucked into the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains reflects a crucial facet of suburban life. There’s tiny, wealthy Bradbury, a town that prides itself on having one of the richest ZIP codes in Los Angeles, where a house is on the market for $68.8 million. A couple of miles to the east is Azusa. This modest suburb is more than two-thirds Latino, a town of working families whose incomes and home values are a sliver of the wealth nearby.
- April 01, 2013
Stanford faculty members share their online education experiences. "It's the beginning of a wholesale reorganization of teaching and learning in higher education," said Mitchell Stevens, associate professor of education and co-convener of Education's Digital Future, a hub of academic discussion around these issues. "It will very soon be an unignorable phenomenon. This is not a fringe activity. This is something that will be reorganizing the entire sector."
- March 29, 2013
A new study finds that when low-income, high-achieving students get targeted information about their full range of college-going opportunities, they apply to selective colleges in larger numbers, attend and graduate.
- March 26, 2013
sean reardon of Stanford University and Andrew Ho of Harvard University are the 2013 recipients of the Palmer O. Johnson Award for the article, Estimating Achievement Gaps From Test Scores Reported in Ordinal 'Proficiency' Categories, published in the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics in August 2012. This award is to be given for an outstanding article appearing in an AERA-sponsored publication.
- March 26, 2013
Eric Hanushek and Paul Peterson discuss how aligning teacher salaries with effectiveness is necessary to improve the efficiency of school spending. Paying teachers according to effectiveness is particularly important when faced with budget pressures.
- March 21, 2013
“This changes almost everything,” said Michael Kirst, president of the California State Board of Education and professor emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, in opening his testimony on March 13 before the California State Senate Education Committee. And he then listed examples of the new deeper learning standards that are to be adopted: “Students will be able to understand, describe, explain, justify, prove, derive, assess, illustrate, analyze, model, construct, compare, investigate, summarize and evaluate — those are some of them.”
- March 21, 2013
Editor’s Note: California Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed a new formula for funding the state’s public schools. Known as the Local Control Funding Formula, the plan seeks to address glaring inequities plaguing the current K-12 school finance system. In 2008, State Board of Education President Michael Kirst co-authored a policy brief that became the foundation for Brown’s proposed formula.
- March 14, 2013
- March 08, 2013
Governor Jerry Brown wants to dramatically restructure the way California allocates funding to schools by providing extra funds to districts with large numbers of needy students. But critics say the formula benefits mostly urban areas to the detriment of more affluent suburban districts. We'll discuss the plan and check in with some Bay Area school districts to get their response.David Plank joined the discussion panel on KQED Forum.
- March 04, 2013
- Salary Incentives and Teacher Quality: The role of compensation in teacher recruitment and retentionMarch 01, 2013
- February 20, 2013
A new report says America's unequal education system disadvantages poor and minority students.
Decades of reform have failed to create a strong and fair school system in the United States, with poor and minority students at an increasing disadvantage, a new report says.The report, which outlines ways to close the achievement gap, was issued Tuesday by the Equity and Excellence Commission, a 27-member panel that included three Stanford scholars: Law Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Graduate School of Education Professor Linda Darling-Hammond and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Eric Hanushek.
- February 07, 2013
Congratulation to Dr.Susanna Loeb, Barnett Family Professor of Education and Faculty Director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA), on being elected to membership in the National Academy of Education for her valuable contributions to educational research and policy development.
The National Academy of Education (NAEd) advances the highest quality education research and its use in policy formation and practice. Founded in 1965, the NAEd consists of U.S. members and foreign associates who are elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship related to education. Since its establishment, NAEd has undertaken research studies that address pressing issues in education and that typically include both NAEd members and other scholars with an expertise in a particular area of inquiry. In addition, members are deeply engaged in NAEd’s professional development fellowship programs focused on the rigorous preparation of the next generation of scholars.
- February 06, 2013
It is no secret that some school districts spend their money better than others. One can easily find groups of districts with the same student demographics and with the same expenditure levels producing very different levels of student achievement. Put another way, some (many?) districts are spending more than they need to spend, based on what other districts show is possible. Economists would summarize this as indicating the existence of considerable inefficiency in the operation of schools.