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Julie Turner, associate professor of psychology and Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, has been named the new lead editor of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) American Educational Research Journal. Two other Institute...

Over the last decade, teacher evaluation based on value-added models (VAMs) has become central to the public debate over education policy. In this commentary, we critique and deconstruct the arguments proposed by the authors of a highly publicized study...

A half-century ago, academics led an effort to reform the teaching of history and the social studies in a movement called the New Social Studies (NSS). Since the mid-1990s, again professors, social studies curriculum specialists, and classroom history...

UC Center Sacramento Speaker Series Presents Dr. Michael Gottfried, Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara Given that many children from immigrant families start school at a disadvantage relative to native...

An article in The Guardian this week highlighted the fact that 73% of trainee teachers in the UK now have either a first-class or 2:1 university degree, up from 59% in 2010. For the benefit of non-UK readers, a first is the highest possible classification...