Stay abreast of the latest education studies with these recent reports.
- Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation. (April 2011). The Annie E. Casey Foundation. This report looks at the important link between 3rd grade reading abilities and high school graduation rates, finding that students who are not reading proficiently in the 3rd grade are four times more likely to quit school without earning a high school diploma. The rates are even lower for students living in poverty.
- Education and the Economy: Boosting the Nation's Economy by Improving High School Graduation Rates. (March 2011). Alliance for Excellent Education. In this 50-state study, researchers analyzed how each state's economy would be improved by increased graduation rates. The researchers looked at a range of factors, including individual earning, home and auto sales, job and economic growth, spending and investment, and tax revenue, which would have been improved if half of the nation's nongraduates from the Class of 2010 had graduated.
- Student Selection, Attrition, and Replacement in KIPP Middle Schools (Working Paper Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association). (April 2011). Mathematica. This study looks at the student selection and the attrition and replacement rates of students at the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter schools. Critics of KIPP claim that the schools are highly selective and struggling students tend to transfer out of the schools without being replaced by transfers from other schools. In this study the researchers look at the validity of such arguments and conclude, "KIPP's success is not simply a mirage that is based on the results of a select number of high achievers who persist through eighth grade."
