WASHINGTON, October 29, 2013 ─ The October 2013 issue of Educational Researcher (ER), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), is now available on the association's website. Included in this issue is an unprecedented look at the role of sorting between boys and girls across public U.S. high schools in explaining the gender gap of college enrollment among black and Hispanic students. The October issue of ER includes four feature articles and one brief. Links to the full text of each article are available at http://www.aera.net/EROct13 .
This issue's feature articles include:
The brief in this issue, "Student Math Achievement and Out-of-Field Teaching," is by Jason G. Hill and Ben Dalton. Hill and Dalton examined data from the National Center for Education Statistics' High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 and the School and Staffing Survey, finding that ninth-grade students most in need of a qualified math teacher are least likely to have one. Out-of-field teaching (teaching without a major, minor, or certification in a subject) is most prevalent in high-poverty schools, and the least experienced teachers are often paired with the most challenging students. Hill is an education analyst at RTI International: jahill@rti.org , (919) 541-7443. Dalton is a senior education analyst at RTI International: bdalton@rti.org , (919) 541-7228.
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