Students linked to teachers identified as effective or ranked as high performing prior to the pandemic, experienced less negative impact on academic achievement during the lockdowns than students who were…
The state House budget would restore salary supplements for public school educators with a master’s degree. Decades of empirical research failed to establish a relationship between master’s degrees and student…
School closures designed to impede the spread of COVID-19 have prompted North Carolina’s public school educators to transition to online instruction. But this transition has been uneven across classrooms, schools,…
Thoughtful piece by syndicated columnist John Hood on the important role that evidence and data should play in making public policy. But Hood rightly points out that human nature can…
How do we close achievement gaps between students from different racial and socioeconomic groups? One idea is to assign at-risk students to a better teacher. In “Do School Learning Opportunities…
Mathematica Policy Research shows us the way: In 2006, Congress established the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), which provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need…
Here are a few school-related studies from the recent American Economic Association meeting in Philadelphia. (Emphasis added throughout.) The Effect of High School Peers on Juvenile Delinquency Songman Kang,…
This News & Observer story delves into the role that assignment of teachers is playing in Wake County as the public school system seeks to ensure that struggling students are…
The challenge of learning from others’ mistakes by Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality April 13, 2017 Dear State Legislator: First let’s get the obvious points…
I almost wish this were some sort of Friday follies spoof, but unfortunately it’s real life–N&R reports Guilford County Schools will apply for a $60 million grant to replace tapped-out…
For decades, education researchers have concluded that low-income students are taught by less effective students than their higher-income counterparts. These differences are then used to explain why there is an…
Great leadership is a crucial ingredient to boost learning within N.C. schools. Peggy Smith delivered that message during a presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. A Campbell University…