Check out the latest in education research.
- Revisiting That Age-Old Question: Does Money Matter in Education? (PDF). (2012). Albert Shanker Institute. Does it matter how much funding schools receive? The short answer is yes, according to researcher Bruce D. Baker of Rutgers University. "This policy brief revisits the long and storied literature on whether money matters in providing a quality education. Increasingly, political rhetoric adheres to the unfounded certainty that money doesn't make a difference in education and that reduced funding is unlikely to harm educational quality," Baker says. "These positions, however, have little basis in the empirical research on the relationship between funding and school quality." The policy brief discusses whether money in the aggregate, specific schooling resources, and substantive and sustained state school finance reforms matter.
- State High School Tests: Changes in State Policies and the Impact of College and Career Readiness Movement. Center for Education Policy. (December 2011).This study examines policies toward high school exit exams and college entrance exams, such as SATs, across the United States. It found that at least 31 states have some sort of exit exam, but several are changing their policies on the practice or dropping it altogether. One of the main reasons is the Common Core State Standards Initiative and the sweeping changes that it will have on education policy.
