Female elementary school teachers’ comfort with mathematics has an outsize effect on the girls they teach, according to new research. Girls taught by a female teacher got a learning boost if that ...

To determine the effect of background music on on-task-performance (OTP), 26 pupils in a fifth-grade science class were observed for 42 class sessions over a period of four months. Observational data ...

Using longitudinal data from a cohort of middle school students from a large school district, we estimate separate "value-added" teacher effects for two subscales of a mathematics assessment under a ...