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‘Hip-hop’ students unfairly targeted, study finds

Black and Latino “hip-hop” students are disproportionately punished in urban schools, finds a two-year study that sheds light on some of the unfair disciplinary practices newly targeted by the Obama administration.

Muhammad Khalifa, a Michigan State University assistant professor of education, found that students who identified with hip-hop culture were often removed from school because of their cultural behaviors and dress. His paper is published in the research journal Multicultural Learning and Teaching. (more…)

Student Performance Improves When Teachers Given Incentives Upfront

By Guest PostAugust 13, 2012Educationacademic performance, bonus payment, broad foundation, chicago heights, economic research, field experiment, gadi barlevy, incentive, john list, loss aversion, motivate behavior, percentile, robert m beren, roland fryer, sally sadoff, student performance, teacher, teacher incentive, thinklink predictive assessment, thomas amadio, uchicago, upfront

A bonus payment to teachers can improve student academic performance — but only when it is given upfront, on the condition that part of the money must be returned if student performance fails to improve, research at the University of Chicago shows.

The study showed that students gained as much as a 10 percentile increase in their scores compared to students with similar backgrounds — if their teacher received a bonus at the beginning of the year, with conditions attached. There was no gain for students when teachers were offered the bonus at the end of the school year, the research found. (more…)

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‘Hip-hop’ students unfairly targeted, study finds

Student Performance Improves When Teachers Given Incentives Upfront