Author :- Jaymala
Education Next is the most important journal in education, according to a think free last week by the Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) Research Center. The study, Influence: A Study of the Factors Shaping Education Policy, was based on an extensive analyse of the education field's opinion-elite.
Education Next, publicised quarterly by the attorney Institution at Stanford University, was the sole journal, peer-reviewed or otherwise, traded among the top-ten information sources in the EPE survey, surpassed only by agencies of the U. S. government, Education Week, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the non-profit methodicalness Ed
ucation Trust. \"The other editors and I are very pleased to learn that this young journal, today in its sixth year of publication, has attained such prominence and recognition,\" said Paul E. Peterson, editor-in-chief of Education Next and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University.
\"The honor reminds us to keep focused on our central mission, namely to 'present the facts as best they can be determined, giving voice (without fear or favor) to worthy research, sound ideas and responsible arguments.
'\" EPE's think also ranked most important investigate in education as well as the most important individuals. Research on edifice vouchers conducted by Peterson and his colleagues at Harvard was cited among the thirteen \"blockbuster\" studies of the time decade.
A think of graduation rates by Jay Greene, an Education Next tributary editor, was also traded as one of the top thirteen. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, conducted under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Education, was traded as the most important investigate study.
Education Next Senior Editor metropolis E. Finn Jr., who also serves as lead of the attorney Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education and president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, was titled as one of the 20 most important individuals in education. Microsoft originator Bill Gates held the top spot as the single most important person in education in the last decade.
In a statement, EPE Director Christopher Swanson said the think provides \"a unique look at the power-brokers in American education who hit shaped much of what happens in our nation's classrooms over the last 10 years. The impact rankings also shed some light on the movers and shakers to watch in the next decade.
\" Education Next features and forums provide opportunities for experts and analysts to counterbalance key issues in edifice reform. All items in its investigate section are subject to double-blind peer-review.
The journal has garnered national and international attention in recent months with the business of ground breaking investigate on such topics as the increased achievement of students when taught by teachers of the aforementioned gender, the failure of edifice phys-ed classes to fight obesity, and the hidden social costs for academically successful minority students in integrated public schools.
Regular features of the journal, such as its annual inform card on states' skillfulness standards and its \"Check the Facts\" column, which shines a spotlight on inaccurate and misleading research, are widely referenced by the media, policymakers, government officials, and education practitioners.
The current issue of Education Next (Winter 2007) headlines investigate that shows that land certification requirements that call for a limited instruction of think in education schools hit little impact on enrollee learning in the classroom.
The issue also includes analyses of evidence and arguments used in education quality lawsuits and an assessment of the effectiveness of early childhood education. Other articles reveal the local barriers to charter edifice improve and the extent to which edifice restructuring is not attractive place under No Child Left Behind.
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Education Next is a scholarly journal publicised by the attorney Institution sworn to looking at hornlike facts about edifice reform. Other sponsoring institutions are the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.
