February 27, 2015
Balefire, the website that reviews educational apps, has a concise summary of the review criteria they employ to evaluate the impact of applications and why they are included in their evaluation process. Read More…
February 26, 2015
Each year the American Educational Research Association (AERA) publishes its 10 most-read articles. Seven of the studies hold special interest for the design of education systems. This year’s list includes these papers of special interest: Read More…
January 30, 2015
Balefire, a web site that reviews educational apps is transitioning to a free model so that interested teachers and parents can access all reviews free of charge. The free model will launch the first week of February. Read More…
January 15, 2015
Seeds, Bricks, and Sand: Stages of School-Reform Readiness
An opinion piece by Robert Slavin, Director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University, examines issues of school turnaround. In this article Slavin offers a metaphor for three types of school readiness for reform, seeds, bricks, and sand. He describes seed schools as those Read More…
December 1, 2014
An article titled, New ESEA waiver guidance will sink schools where all boats are rising, questions the wisdom of new NCLB waiver guidelines. The author, Michael Petrilli, challenges the recent changes that would make it more Read More…
August 7, 2014
The Evidence-based Practices Special Interest Group (SIG) August 2014 newsletter, “Savage Controversies” has arrived. The SIG, a special interest group of the Association for Behavior Read More…
July 8, 2014
The Impact of Behavior Skill Training and Coaching on Implementation of Practices
The results of last year’s Wing Institute’s 2013 research grant are now available on our web site. Mary Sawyer submitted the selected study that examines the Read More…
May 8, 2014
The purpose of the Wing Institute Graduate Research Funding Program is to: Read More…
March 25, 2014
This book is compiled from the proceedings of the sixth summit titled Performance Feedback: Using Data to Improve Educator Performance. The 2011 summit topic was selected to help answer the question, what role does feedback play in improving the performance of students, teachers, and school Read More…
May 14, 2013
The Wing Institute is launching a new initiative to provide funding for graduate students who are interested in doing research in the area of evidence-based education. Read More…