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April 25, 2017

Joining the Dots: The Challenge of Creating Coherent School Improvement

This article investigates the relationship between the coherence of school improvement efforts and changes in student achievement on national examinations.


A Systematic Review of Student Self-Report Instruments That Assess Student-Teacher Relationships

This article systematically analyzes self-report student survey instruments that assess student-teacher relationships. From its results, implications are drawn for conceptual specification and future survey design.


Time to Listen: A Case of Leading a Shift to Blending Teaching and Learning in an Australian University

Making time to listen is fundamental to the work of an academic leader when colleagues are being required to make significant changes to the way they teach.


April 24, 2017

New Learning Times

An introduction to a new mobile publication from Teachers College and TCR.


Educating the Whole Child: Kindergarten Mathematics Instructional Practices and Students’ Academic and Socioemotional Development

This study addresses the link between instruction and achievement as well as the link between instruction and socioemotional development in early schooling mathematics instructional practices.


April 21, 2017

Preparing Students for a Diverse, Deliberative Democracy: College Diversity Experiences and Informed Citizenship After College

Using a national sample of 8,634 alumni from 229 institutions, this longitudinal study explores the extent to which two types of college diversity experiences (cross-racial interaction and curricular/co-curricular diversity engagement) predict aspects of informed citizenship associated with supporting a deliberative democracy six years after graduation.








April 19, 2017

Parenting in the Age of High-Stakes Testing: Gifted and Talented Admissions and the Meaning of Parenthood

This paper analyzes the different ways in which white parents and parents of color conceive of good parenting in the era of high-stakes testing. It demonstrates the processes that help to produce inequities in our current educational system related to race, class, and G&T identification.


Parenting in the Age of High-Stakes Testing: Gifted and Talented Admissions and the Meaning of Parenthood

This paper analyzes the different ways in which white parents and parents of color conceive of good parenting in the era of high-stakes testing. It demonstrates the processes that help to produce inequities in our current educational system related to race, class, and G&T identification.


April 18, 2017

Assessing and Resolving California's Growing Teacher Shortage Crisis

This commentary critiques current proposed legislative efforts in California that seek a resolution to the state's teacher shortage crisis.


April 14, 2017

Toward a Positive Explanation of Student Differences in Reading Growth

This study uses the lenses of positive education and self-determination theory to examine features of the school environment that promote reading growth in students.


April 13, 2017

The Arts, the Common Core, and English Language Development in the Primary Grades

This study examines the speaking abilities of K–2 Hispanic ELs who were randomly assigned to an arts-based professional development program that emphasized oral English-language interactions. Additional review suggests that the activities corresponded well to Common Core speaking and listening standards, but concerns are raised that a lack of speaking assessments in the Common Core may result in a subsequent distortion of K–2 instruction.


April 11, 2017

Uncovering the Principal-Student Relationship

Scholarly insights into the principal-student relationship are scarce compared to scholarship regarding the teacher-student relationship. This commentary considers questions that may arise from a deeper examination of the principal-student relationship and calls for increased attention to the topic.


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