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West, Martin; Schwerdt, Guido – Education Next, 2012
Policymakers nationwide continue to wrestle with a basic question: At what grade level should students move to a new school? In the most common grade configuration in American school districts, public school students make two school transitions, entering a middle school in grade 6 or 7 and a high school in grade 9. This pattern reflects the…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. – Education Next, 2011
In recent years, a consensus has emerged among researchers that teacher quality matters enormously for student performance. Students taught by more-effective teachers learn substantially more over the course of the year than students taught by less-effective teachers. Yet little is known about what makes for a more-effective teacher. Most research…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Science Achievement, Lecture Method, Teaching Methods