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Writing
The Nation's Report Card: Writing 2007
The 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) writing evaluation was recently administered to a nationally representative sample of over 165,000 8th- and 12th-grade students in private and public schools. The test assessed students' writing skills by engaging them in narrative, informative, and persuasive writing assignments. Results were then contrasted with those from 1998 and 2002, based on a variety of demographic criteria.
Compared with previous results, 2007's scores show measurable improvement in students' writing abilities: in addition to higher average test scores, the percentage of students who performed at or above a "basic" level has risen.
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http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2008468
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Reading Development
Early Intervention Boosts Reading Skills for At-Risk First-Graders
For early elementary students who struggle to master reading skills, extra instruction may be what they need to find continuing academic success. In fact, a study recently published in the Journal of Learning Disabilities found that at-risk first-graders showed dramatic improvement across a range of reading skills after receiving extra instruction.
Beth Harn, professor of special education at the University of Oregon, says, "This study looked at the role of time with students most at risk for reading difficulties to determine whether doubling intervention time at the beginning of first grade is an efficient use of instructional time." Students who received longer instructional time scored higher on end-of-year testing -- but all students who received extra instruction demonstrated improvement.
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http://pmr.uoregon.edu/science-and-innovation/
uo-research-news/research-news-2008/march-2008/
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Sexual Harassment
Coercion or Confusion? Men Are More Likely to Misinterpret Sexual Cues
A new study from Indiana University and Yale University indicates that college-age men have a tendency to confuse friendly non-verbal cues with sexual interest more frequently than women do -- and according to lead author Coreen Farris, "The increased tendency among young men to incorrectly read sexual interest rather than friendliness may simply be an extension of a general disadvantage in reading nonverbal cues, rather than a process unique to sexual signaling."
In the study, involving 280 heterosexual college-age men and women, men who viewed images of friendly women mistook 12 percent of the images as sexually interested; women misidentified 8.7 percent. Conversely, when viewing images of sexually interested women, men mistakenly identified 38.7 percent as "friendly"; women misinterpreted 31.9 percent.
Among a minor group of men, sexual misperception is linked to coercion -- making this an important process to understand in order to improve rape prevention efforts in college settings.
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http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/7883.html
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"Sexual Harassment At School" (EM49585)A
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No Child Left Behind
U.S. Department of Education: Parents Are Under-Informed about No Child Left Behind Options
The U.S. Department of Education's interim report on the state and local implementation of No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) public school choice and supplemental services options for the 2003-04 and 2004-05 school years indicates that the number of students participating in both options has increased. However, still only a small percentage of eligible students takes advantage of these programs -- and the report links that deficit, in part, to poor parent education about NCLB.
Issues of parent communication are one of the major contributing factors to low NCLB participation; one survey found that only 27 percent of eligible parents had been notified of the options available to them, and only 53 percent knew that their child was eligible for supplemental services.
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2008/04/04032008a.html
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Retention
Big-City Graduation Rates Fall to 50 Percent
Nationwide, almost one in three U.S. high school students drops out before graduating: that's 1.2 million per year, about 7,000 each school day, and one every 26 seconds.
Additionally, a recent report from the America's Promise Alliance found that only about half of all students served by the main school systems in the nation's 50 largest cities graduate from high school -- and in the metropolitan areas surrounding the nation's 35 largest cities, graduation rates are lower than in nearby suburban communities.
"The number one predictor of a young person's future success is whether they graduate from high school," says Alma Powell, chair of America's Promise Alliance. "We must invest in the whole child, and that means finding solutions that involve the family, the school, and the community."
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http://www.americaspromise.org/APAPage.aspx?id=10354
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