What fuels high rates of teacher turnover in schools that serve large numbers of low-income students of color? Teachers who choose to leave such schools usually transfer to schools serving wealthier, whiter student populations, leading some researchers to conclude that teachers are dissatisfied working with poor, minority students. Here we present an alternative explanation— one grounded in org...

Combining universal access to school with excel lence has been a his toric di lemma in U.S. schools. This dynamic tension is appearing in other nations as well as information age occupations demand highly literate workforces. Schools have adopted multilevel reform efforts to mee t the chal lenges o f educat ing today’s children. These efforts include: changes in teacher preparation; high expect...

Girls typically have higher grades than boys in school and recent research suggests that part of this gender difference may be due to discrimination of boys. We rigorously test this in a field experiment where a random sample of the same tests in the Swedish language is subject to blind and non-blind grading. The non-blind test score is on average 15 % lower for boys than for girls. Blind gradi...

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Formative assessment is recognized as an important component of teachers’ classroom assessment strategies; recent research has pointed to peer and self-assessment as a way to operationalize the principles of formative assessment. The purpose of this study was to explore the nature and frequency of high school teachers’ use of peer and self-assessment. The results indicate that many teachers fin...