Tag: Test Scores

  • Nation & World

    Lessons in learning

    Study shows students in ‘active learning’ classrooms learn more than they think

    6 minutes
    two students looking at notebook together
  • Nation & World

    Negative ‘Impact’ on learning

    New research from Assistant Professor in Sociology Joscha Legewie links the aggressive policing of New York City’s Operation Impact with lower test scores for African American boys.

    5 minutes
    Joscha Legewie.
  • Nation & World

    The teaching launch

    A new study found that middle school teachers can have a real impact not only on students’ short-term educations, but on whether they attend college and on the size of their future paychecks.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Superstar teachers

    As leaders in government and business search for ways to strengthen the U.S. recovery, new research from faculty at Harvard and Columbia indicates that elementary school teachers have an impact on how much their students earn as adults and, by extension, on the nation’s economy.

    5 minutes