Education

Conservatives See Two-parent Households as a Solution to Student Achievement. It’s Not That Simple

I wanted to look at the relationship between family structure and student achievement by family income. Single-parent families are far more common in low-income communities and I didn’t

Teachers Are Using Software To See If Students Used AI. What Happens When It’s Wrong?

The teacher didn’t respond, and docked Ostovitz’s grade. Ostovitz’s mom, Stephanie Rizk, says her daughter is a high-achieving student who cares about doing well in school and she

Millions of Borrowers in Biden’s SAVE Plan Would Start Paying Under New Settlement

The American Enterprise Institute, AEI, recently published an analysis of the latest federal student loan data: In addition to the 5.5 million borrowers who are currently in default,

More Students Are Going to College. Affordability and Workforce Training Are Factors

“Confidence in college is coming back, but it is conditional,” says Courtney Brown, who studies public opinion on colleges for the Lumina Foundation, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit aimed at

To Boost Math, Schools Try Having Young Children Change Classes for the Subject

As schools contend with a decades-long slump in math scores , exacerbated by the pandemic , some are turning to this classroom strategy even for very young students.

Does Having a Male Teacher Make a Difference? Not as Much as Some Think

Middle and high school students might see more benefits. Earlier research is mixed and inconclusive. A 2007 analysis by Stanford professor Thomas Dee found academic benefits for eighth-grade

How Trump 2.0 Upended Education Research and Statistics in One Year

Even core federal datasets were not spared. The termination of a contract for EDFacts, which collects demographic data about students, was inconceivable. The data is essential for administering

Why Hope is Fundamental to Achieving Goals and Combatting Cynicism

Using Snyder’s Adult Hope Scale, Bryce and her team were able to measure pathway thinking, which helps people get from a to b, and agency thinking, which demonstrates

Gen Z Financial Literacy in The Digital Age With Lillian Zhang

I think that’s something that it’s really difficult for people to understand if they’re not growing up in Gen Z or younger. We’ll lump millennials in there too.

How Parents Can Support Their Child Academic Success in a Foreign Education System

Relocating to a new country often brings excitement, but it also introduces challenges for children adjusting to a foreign education system. Differences in curriculum, teaching methods, assessment styles,