Education Update brings you links to some recent education research reports to keep you informed about the latest studies and new data.
- Beyond the Bubble: Technology and the Future of Student Assessment. Education Sector. (February 2009).<LINK URL="http://www.educationsector.org/usr_doc/Beyond_the_Bubble.pdf">http://www.educationsector.org/usr_doc/Beyond_the_Bubble.pdf</LINK>. This report is part of an Education Sector series looking at accountability in K–12 schools. In this brief, the organization analyzes how technology has been and can be used for student assessments.
- Education Strategies that Work. The Century Foundation. (March 2009).<LINK URL="http://www.tcf.org/Publications/Education/Greg_Education.pdf">http://www.tcf.org/Publications/Education/Greg_Education.pdf</LINK>. This brief looks at Oklahoma's universal pre-K program, the voluntary inter-district transfer program in St. Louis, Missouri, and New Jersey's low-income public schools.
- The Next Step: Using Longitudinal Data Systems To Improve Student Success. Data Quality Campaign. (March 2009).<LINK URL="http://www.dataqualitycampaign.org/resources/384">http://www.dataqualitycampaign.org/resources/384</LINK>. This report encourages states to use longitudinal data to analyze and improve student performance.
- Raising Graduation Rates: A Series of Data Briefs. Progress Toward Increasing National and State Graduation Rates. The Everyone Graduates Center, at the Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University. (March 2009).<LINK URL="http://www.every1graduates.org/PDFs/StateProgressReport.pdf">http://www.every1graduates.org/PDFs/StateProgressReport.pdf</LINK>. This report is the first in a series of briefs examining the progress in raising high school graduation rates over the past decade.
- Young Women in Science Booklet.Science/AAAS, in collaboration with the L'Oréal Corporate Foundation (2009).<LINK URL="http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/tools_tips/outreach/loreal_wis_2009">http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/tools_tips/outreach/loreal_wis_2009</LINK>. This booklet presents profiles of young women at the beginning of their science careers.