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Has Inclusion Gone Too Far?
Weighing its effects on students with disabilities, their peers, and teachers
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EdStat: Around the World, There are Approximately 264 Million Children Not in School
Another 330 million are in school but not learning.
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EdStat: $18 Billion a Year is Spent on Professional Development for U.S. Teachers
But teachers usually don’t get to pick their own programs.
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EdStat: For Teachers Who Report that Covering Housing Costs is Very Difficult, the Chronic Absenteeism Rate is Nine Percentage Points Higher
Long commutes combine with rising rents to create economic anxiety.
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EdStat: In 2016, Raising Blended Learners Chose Five “Demonstration Sites” to Receive Grants of up to $500,000 Over Three Years
These sites had mixed to modest gains in student achievement, though educators report greater student ownership of learning and fewer disciplinary problems.
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EdStat: When the Public is Told How Much Teachers Currently Earn, Only 36 Percent Support Raising Teacher Salaries
According to the EdNext poll, support is down 5 percentage points from 2016.
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EdStat: The Differences between Teacher-Preparation Programs are Negligible When It Comes to Teacher Quality, Amounting to No More Than 3 Percent of the Average Test-Score Gap between Students from Low-Income Families and their More Affluent Peers
If policymakers want to hold preparation programs accountable for the quality of their graduates, there may be better ways to do it.
Teachers and Teaching
EdStat: When Informed About Teachers’ Current Salaries, 36% of the Public Favor a Pay Raise for Teachers
Recent polls show that most Americans agree that teachers deserve a pay raise, but the annual EdNext survey has shown that the public's views on teacher salaries change when respondents are given more information.
Teachers and Teaching
EdStat: On Average, over the Past 10 Years, Teacher Compensation has Increased by 7.8 Percent for Retirement Benefits
During the same period of time, salaries increased by 1.4 percent a year, on average.
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At least twenty states have passed or are considering measures related to the science of reading.
The Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2021
The pandemic and race dominate the discussion—for a second year.
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Parsing a self-proclaimed literacy guru
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State teacher-license prep materials peddle a debunked theory
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