Check out these recently released education studies and reports.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Among Children Aged 5–17 Years in the United States, 1998–2009. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (August 2011). This report examined students with ADHD and made key findings, including that there was an increase of students, from 7 percent to 9 percent, with the disorder in 2009.
Grading Standards in Education Departments at Universities. Education Policy and Analysis Archives. (August 2011). This study found that students studying to become educators received grade inflation on a much higher level than students studying other subjects. The study says that this difference "cannot be explained by differences in student quality or by structural differences across departments (i.e., differences in class sizes). The remaining explanation is that the higher grades are the result of lower grading standards."
America's Children, America's Challenge: Promoting Opportunity for the Next Generation. Annie E. Casey Foundation. (2011). One in five U.S. children live in poverty, and their opportunities in life are significantly lower than those not living in poverty, according to this study.
Profiles of Teachers in the U.S. 2011. National Center for Education Information. (2011). This report contains the results of a national survey of 2,500 randomly selected K–12 teachers. The study found that one-third of first-time public school teachers hired since 2005 were alternatively certified, and these teachers differ from traditionally certified teachers on a number of issues, including tenure, performance-based pay, and using student achievement as a measure of evaluating teacher effectiveness.
IDEA National Assessment Implementation Study. U.S. Department of Education. (July 2011). The study looks at four areas of IDEA implementation: the provision of services to young children with disabilities, the identification of children and youth with disabilities, efforts to promote positive developmental and educational outcomes for children and youth with disabilities, and dispute resolution. The study concluded that at least 71 percent of U.S. school districts use Response to Intervention techniques when dealing with students with learning disabilities.
