The four-day school week: Research shows benefits and consequences
To save money and help recruit teachers, many schools are taking Mondays or Fridays off. Scholars are studying how it affects students, teachers and school district budgets.
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Online schools: Students’ performance often falls behind kids at other public schools
This roundup of research looks at online schools, including how their students perform compared with kids who attend traditional, brick-and-mortar public schools.
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Raising public school teacher pay: What the research says
While bigger paychecks don’t guarantee greater job satisfaction, academic studies indicate that when teacher earnings rise, school districts and students can benefit in a range of ways.
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Time of day and student productivity in middle school and high school
2016 study in The Review of Economics and Statistics that examines whether adolescents have higher grades, test scores if their math and English classes are scheduled at the start of the school day.
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Does student test data change public opinion about education policies, public leaders?
2015 study published in the Journal of Public Policy that examines whether and how public opinion about education reforms are affected when residents of Tennessee are presented with student-performance data.
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