Publication Date
In 2025 | 1 |
Since 2024 | 1 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 1 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 4 |
Descriptor
Source
CNA Corporation | 1 |
Compare: A Journal of… | 1 |
Education Digest: Essential… | 1 |
National Council of Teachers… | 1 |
Author
Abdel Rahamane Baba-Moussa | 1 |
Jones, Joseph | 1 |
Mark Bray | 1 |
Mishel, Lawrence | 1 |
Roy, Joydeep | 1 |
Shaughnessy, Michael | 1 |
Southern, Kyle | 1 |
Publication Type
Information Analyses | 2 |
Journal Articles | 2 |
Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
Secondary Education | 4 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 2 |
High Schools | 2 |
Middle Schools | 2 |
Elementary Education | 1 |
Grade 6 | 1 |
Higher Education | 1 |
Intermediate Grades | 1 |
Postsecondary Education | 1 |
Two Year Colleges | 1 |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Program for International… | 1 |
Trends in International… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Mark Bray; Abdel Rahamane Baba-Moussa – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
This paper examines and builds on an earlier contribution to this journal focusing on private supplementary tutoring -- widely known as shadow education -- in Francophone West and Central Africa. Drawing on wider literature about research methods in this domain, it examines the basis for the numerical estimates presented in the original article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Supplementary Education, Private Education
Shaughnessy, Michael – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2008
Until recently, much of the research on students' understanding of statistical ideas has focused on their conceptions of center or on what constitutes a good sample. In the past decade research on students' statistical thinking has broadened and increasing interest has been paid to how students think about variability in data or variability in…
Descriptors: Statistics, Statistical Data, Data Interpretation, Sampling
Mishel, Lawrence; Roy, Joydeep – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
Conventional wisdom claims a newly discovered dropout crisis in high schools. Jay Greene, of the Manhattan Institute, and Christopher Swanson, formerly with the Urban Institute, are primarily responsible for this claim, publishing reports showing these extraordinary high dropout rates nationwide, for the states, and for many specific school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dropouts, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
Jones, Joseph; Southern, Kyle – CNA Corporation, 2011
Federal education policy in recent years has encouraged state and local education agencies to embrace data use and analysis in decision-making, ranging from policy development and implementation to performance evaluation. The capacity of these agencies to make effective and methodologically sound use of collected data for these purposes remains an…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grants, Educational Policy, Federal Programs