Check out these recent education studies and reports.
- Projections of Education Statistics to 2019. National Center for Education Statistics. (March 2011). This study examines a number of issues, including projected statistics of graduation rates for elementary and secondary school students through 2019.
- The Secondary School Experiences and Academic Performance of Students With Hearing Impairment. National Center for Special Education Research. (February 2011). This report concludes that more than one-third of students with hearing impairments took general education classes. However, most students scored lower than their peers on achievement tests.
- Blocked, Diluted, and Co-opted. Education Next. (Spring 2011). Out of the nation's 14,000 school districts, only around 500 have merit-pay policies for educators. The study finds that teachers in the private sector and overseas are more likely to receive merit pay. The report asks important questions and makes declarations about the best scenarios under which such a plan could succeed, saying that a merit-pay initiative will not succeed in a district "unless it is coupled with school choice innovations hefty enough to instigate sustained competition among schools and school sectors."
- Dropout Prevention Programs in Nine Mid-Atlantic Region School Districts: Additions to a Dropout Prevention Database. National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. (February 2011). Researchers looked at 58 dropout programs in the Mid-Atlantic region and found that none went further than setting up a preventive program. Most of the districts still had large percentages of students dropping out.
