District-scholar partnerships yield new insights
By Sarah D. Sparks/Education Week
A set of in-depth partnerships between researchers and the nation’s largest school systems is bearing fruit, both in new studies and greater insights into how districts and researchers can work together. The Senior Urban Education Research Fellowship program plans to release two reports from the second of three rounds of studies on Saturday in Washington at the annual legislative conference of its sponsor, the Council of the Great City Schools. Researchers in San Francisco and Boston schools are each developing tools and interventions to help middle and high school teachers, particularly those in science, social studies, and other content areas, incorporate academic vocabulary into their teaching. (more...)