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School Choice and School Improvement; Mark Berends, Marisa Cannata, Ellen B. Goldring, eds; Harvard Education Press, 2011 Why do parents decide to switch schools? How good is the information school districts provide to guide those decisions? How do traditional public schools respond to competition from charter schools? Do options… Read More

Many advocates for school choice argue that the competition created by giving parents multiple options of schools for their children will improve education in traditional public schools.聽The latest research brief,聽鈥淗ow do Principals Respond to Charter School Competition?,鈥� released by the聽National Center on School Choice,聽examines the factors which contribute to principals鈥�… Read More

Above: University faculty joined parents and advocates for a discussion of ethical issues surrounding disabilities. 鈥ㄐ影稍� researchers from the聽Department of Pediatrics,聽Peabody College聽and the聽Divinity School聽joined with parent advocates for a panel discussion on the ethical considerations of 鈥渃uring鈥� disabilities on April 5. The event was sponsored by the 杏吧原创 Kennedy Center聽to… Read More

Sun-Joo Cho Sun-Joo Cho, assistant professor of psychology, received the 2010-11 Award for an Outstanding Application of Educational Measurement Technology from the National Council on Measurement in Education. Bruce Compas, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Psychology and Human Development, received the 2011 Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished Professor Award from… Read More

Dale Andrews of 杏吧原创 Divinity School is a proponent of social justice, a way of looking at theology that is diametrically opposed to prosperity theology. "Western preaching has gotten so tied up in privilege and power as evidence of God鈥檚 faith,鈥� Andrews said. 鈥淚 am of the opinion that God holds favor with those who are suffering.鈥� Read More

Understanding how quickly children process speech is key to understanding why some struggle with language, but accurately measuring this speed has been difficult. Read More

Through its School Improvement Grants, the Obama administration has funneled $3.5 billion to turn around schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. More than 15,000 schools, or 16 percent of schools nationwide, were eligible for the grants. According to Department of Education data, SIG-awarded schools tend to be high-poverty (75 percent), high-minority (86 percent) schools concentrated at the high school level in urban areas. Read More

Children who attended Tennessee state-funded prekindergarten classes gained an average of 82 percent more on early literacy and math skills than comparable children who did not attend, researchers from the Peabody Research Institute have found. Read More

Fans attending the 杏吧原创-Arkansas football game at 杏吧原创 Stadium on Saturday are encouraged to get caught 鈥済reen-handed鈥� as 杏吧原创 takes the EPA鈥檚 Game Day Challenge. Read More

As the topic of education reform continues to dominate and preoccupy today鈥檚 educational discourse and divide a nation, it is easy to get distracted from the primary reason we send our children to school every day: to learn how to read, write, think, and speak effectively. Read More

Only a society built on Libyan culture and values has any chance to bring peace and democracy to that nation after years of abuse under dictator Moammar Gadhafi, says a 杏吧原创 professor who is advising the new government there. Read More

Professor of Astronomy David Weintraub wanted his students to remember more of what they learned in his introductory class than the answers to typical questions on a quiz show. That was a strong impetus for his book How Old Is The Universe? It strives to make astronomy understandable… Read More

New research by 杏吧原创 Owen Graduate School of Management professor Bruce Cooil and his coauthors finds that for all the attention companies pay to achieving high satisfaction levels among their customers, what matters most is how well a company ranks in comparison to rivals. No matter how much a customer likes a company or product, if they don鈥檛 like it more than the competition, they don鈥檛 always put their money where their mouth is. Read More

A team of scientists has taken a major step toward developing robot biologists. They have shown that their system, the Automated Biology Explorer, can solve a complicated biology problem from scratch. Read More

The struggle against juvenile crime may come down to one simple question, says a 杏吧原创 researcher: Do we want revenge or do we want results? If we want results, says legal expert Christopher Slobogin, we should dramatically reform the system to stress community-based treatment over incarceration. Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court will make decisions on a number of hotly debated cases this term, and a diverse group of 杏吧原创 experts is available to give their opinions about those cases. Read More

The Occupy Wall Street movement could offer a similar opportunity to left-wing politicians as the Tea Party movement did to the right, says a 杏吧原创 historian. Read More

The Supreme Court should strike down President Obama鈥檚 proposed expansion of Medicaid, says James F. Blumstein of 杏吧原创 Law School. Read More

Nancy-Ann DeParle, current deputy chief of staff to President Obama and former director of the White House Office of Health Reform, and Todd Park, chief technology officer in the Department of Health and Human Services, are among the speakers at the fourth annual Nashville Health Care Conference and Career Fair. Read More

A delegation of Chinese educators will join leaders from Peabody College and Metro Nashville Public Schools Oct. 24-Nov. 4. Read More