Chalkbeat story about a Stanford study testing whether human tutor support increases students' use of an AI literacy tutor, which found most students barely used it. The study is the EdWorkingPaper "Access is Not Enough" by Carly Robinson, Susanna Loeb and coauthors (linked via its Stanford copy, ai26-1451).
Chalkbeat Ideas roundup on state takeovers of school districts and other debates. It links the EdWorkingPaper on how state takeovers affect education finance for the finding that takeovers increased district funding and sometimes fiscal solvency.
Chalkbeat Indiana story devoted to a new study comparing post-pandemic academic growth in Indiana charter and traditional public schools. It reports findings from the linked EdWorkingPaper by eight researchers.
Chalkbeat story centered on a randomized trial in Knox County showing that tutoring aligned with core classroom instruction produced more learning. The study is the EdWorkingPaper by Cara Jackson and Ayman Shakeel, which the article links and quotes Jackson about.
Chalkbeat Ideas research roundup covering COVID aid, state funding effort, AI cheating and more. It summarizes the EdWorkingPaper on teacher strikes and two EdWorkingPapers on income gaps in gifted and disability identification in Oregon.
Chalkbeat Ideas Q&A with Vladimir Kogan about his book on the politics of education. The introduction links his EdWorkingPapers on adult culture wars and student achievement and on low accountability in school board elections.
Chalkbeat explainer on schools adding staff while losing students and whether that is financially sustainable. It links the EdWorkingPaper on the fiscal effects of enrollment increases and decreases to explain why falling enrollment can raise per-student funding.
Chalkbeat Ideas piece built around a new paper reexamining the Talent Transfer Initiative, which found that top teachers' value-added fell after moving to low-performing schools. The study by Matthew Kraft, John Papay and coauthors is linked in its NBER version and is also EdWorkingPaper 26-1405.
Chalkbeat article on the persistent lack of economic diversity at elite colleges. It links the EdWorkingPaper on college enrollment patterns after SFFA v. Harvard for its finding that low- and middle-income enrollment at very elite colleges barely rose.
Chalkbeat Ideas analysis of why U.S. test scores have declined for about a decade. It draws repeatedly on James Wyckoff's EdWorkingPaper "Puzzling Over Declining Academic Achievement," quoting the paper and the author.