He explained to me that such muddled findings are the norm for education research on school effects.
Langman regards his research on school shootings as a "moral obligation" and he has uploaded 57,000 pages of documents to his website about 133 school killers.
Significant example of controversies initiated by junior economists include Jesse Rothstein's critique of Caroline Hoxby's research on school choice and Justin McCrary's critique of Steven Levitt's research on electoral cycles in police hiring.
"Crime occurs where there are opportunities, in a building with 800 or 2,000 kids, all of whom bring things that are often not locked up," said William Modzeleski, a deputy secretary in the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools in Washington, who has conducted research on school safety and has found that most perpetrators are students.
In research on school-to-work transitions a great deal of attention is given to questions that deal with differential chances of entering vocational education or training (VET).
In particular, there is a lack of research on school-based approaches to sustainable physical activity and exercise interventions targeting children with behavioral health disorders.
Progress in creating more effective educational reforms and progress in creating quality research on school reforms both have been slow in coming.
This chapter reviews the research on school composition and peer effects from three comparative perspectives Catholic and public schools, single-sex and coeducational schools, and small and large schools.
Moreover, the lack of research on school-track-specific differences in test-taking motivation and the mixed results of the cited studies on these differences points to the need for more investigation of test-taking motivation across school tracks.
