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A collection of brief research summaries from 2006 that have been carefully reviewed and selected to provide objective, high-quality evidence that is concise and easy to understand.


Children Succeeding in School       2006 Archives


How the 2005 Hurricanes Affected Students in Louisiana — Dec. 2006

Ready for School: Can Full-Day Kindergarten Level the Playing Field? — Dec. 2006

Approaches to Parental Involvement for Improving the Academic Performance of Elementary School Children in Grades K–6 — Nov. 2006

Association Between Television, Movie, and Video Game Exposure and School Performance — Oct. 2006

Impacts of a Summer Learning Program: A Random Assignment Study of Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) — Aug. 2006

State High School Exit Exams: A Challenging Year — Aug. 2006

Estimating Graduation and Dropout Rates with Longitudinal Data: A Case Study in the Pittsburgh Public Schools — July 2006

2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book — June 2006

Arts Instruction of Public School Students in the First and Third Grades — June 2006

The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate for Public High Schools — June 2006

The Condition of Education 2006 — June 2006

Diplomas Count: An Essential Guide to Graduation Policy and Rates — June 2006

Public Schools with Prekindergarten and Special Education Prekindergarten Programs — June 2006

Learning From Small-Scale Experimental Evaluations of After School Programs — May 2006

Reality Check 2006: How Black and Hispanic Families Rate Their Schools — May 2006

Making Good on a Promise: What Policymakers Can Do to Support the Educational Persistence of Dropouts — Apr. 2006

Rethinking High School Graduation Rates and Trends — Apr. 2006

Every Nine Seconds in America a Student Becomes a Dropout: The Dropout Problem in Numbers — Mar. 2006

What Are Kids Getting Into These Days? Demographic Differences in Youth Out-of School Time Participation — Mar. 2006

Homeschooling in the United States: 2003 — Feb. 2006

Making Sense of Charter Schools: Evidence from California — Feb. 2006

Transition of Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants From Adolescence to Young Adulthood — Feb. 2006

Children with Disabilities in Public Schools — 2006

Concentration of Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity and Poverty — 2006

Full-day Kindergarten — 2006

Language Minority School-Age Children — 2006

Participation in Education: Enrollment Trends by Age — 2006

Past and Projected Elementary and Secondary Public School Enrollments — 2006

Preschool and Prekindergarten Programs — 2006

Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Public School Students — 2006

Trends in Private School Enrollments — 2006