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Do skills like working memory and inhibitory control play a role in reading comprehension? A new study of more than 18,000 students examines the relationship between executive function and reading comprehension outcomes throughout elementary school.
In cities like New York, where roughly 40 percent of students move at least once between third and eighth grade, residential mobility can have significant impacts – both positive and negative – on student outcomes.
For decades, education researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders have advocated for a wide range of reforms to elementary school instruction. A new study of five urban school districts set out to determine how – and how well – those reforms are being implemented in the classroom.
New York City’s “school improvement industry” – the myriad external groups and organizations working to help schools meet specific goals – is so large, and often so fragmented, that it can be difficult to even measure.
CPRE senior researchers Henry May (University of Delaware), Abigail Gray (University of Pennsylvania) and Philip Sirinides (University of Pennsylvania) discuss their monumental study of Reading Recovery and how their results could be used to inform and monitor future developments in U.S. education.
Stanford University Endowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education Sean Reardon discusses his study “Recent Trends in Income, Racial, and Ethnic School Readiness Gaps at Kindergarten Entry.”
Ruth Curran Neild, former Delegated Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences and current researcher with the Philadelphia Education Research Consortium, presents her latest research on English learners in Philadelphia.