What's new in education research? Check out these recently released studies.
- Educating Michigan's Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): An Initial Exploration of Programming—"The ASD-Michigan Project." (PDF) Michigan State University (August 2011). This report provides a snapshot of K–12 public school services for students with autism spectrum disorder in Michigan. Researchers at Michigan State University found that nearly one-third of Michigan schools did not expect students with autism to perform as well as their peers without it. Also, 26 percent of the students with ASD were described by school officials as never or rarely having access to the general curriculum.
- Incomplete: How Middle Class Schools Aren't Making the Grade. The Third Way (September 2011). According to this report, "one in four graduates from a typical middle-class high school earns a college degree." The study also finds that "middle-class schools spend the least per pupil, pay teachers the least, and have the highest enrollment to teacher ratios."
- Informing Writing: The Benefits of Formative Assessment. (PDF) Carnegie Corporation of New York (2011). This study found that formative assessment can help improve writing skills and offers recommendations for using formative assessment to this end.
