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| | This report aims to help school districts deal with the challenges of newly enrolling or rapidly increasing English language learner students by offering background information and sharing the experiences of districts that have addressed similar challenges in providing services and infrastructure to support the success of English language learner students. | | Regional Educational Laboratory Program (REL) | | April 2008 |
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| | The new Data Accountability Center (DAC) website provides public access to data about children and youth with disabilities served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - Part B and C; technical assistance (TA) materials to support the collection, analysis and reporting of IDEA data; and the forms and spreadsheets used for collection. DAC is funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), U.S. Department of Education to provide information and TA to improve the quality of all state-reported data required by the IDEA. | | IDEAdata.org | | April 2009 |
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| | The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) has released two new quick reviews and a new intervention report. One of the latest quick reviews rates a study that examined whether having a Teach For America teacher affects the academic performance of high school students. Also rated is a study that investigated whether it is more effective to teach mathematical concepts with abstract symbols or concrete examples. The WWC intervention report examines accelerated middle schools which provide self-contained academic programs designed to help middle school students who are one to two years behind grade level to catch up to their peers. | | What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) | | August 2008 |
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| | At a time when limited government resources demand that the nation make the most of investments in social and education programs, policymakers will increasingly need to make decisions on the basis of reliable evidence. To assist the incoming Obama Administration and the new Congress, MDRC has developed a series of 15 two-page, evidence-based framing memos on pressing education and social issues — from preschool to prisoner reentry, from disability insurance to after-school programs. | | MDRC | | December 2008 |
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| | This document is a summary of a two-day OSEP-sponsored symposium held October 30-31, 2006, by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education. It presents an overview of the way in which RTI and EIS intersect and provides legislative background, a description of RTI, and a summary of barriers and recommendations generated by the participants at the symposium. | | The Center on Instruction and NASDSE | | February 2008 |
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| | Case studies are produced as part of a larger study of middle schools conducted during the 2006-07 school year. Research teams investigated ten consistently higher-performing and six consistently average-performing middle schools based on student performance on New York State Assessments of 8th-grade English Language Arts and Mathematics. | | SUNY Albany | | February 2008 |
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| | The National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences has released the report "Course Credit Accrual and Dropping Out of High School, by Student Characteristics." This Statistics in Brief uses data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002) to examine the number of credits earned by high school students and the relationship between course credit accrual and dropping out. Findings indicate that high school dropouts earned fewer credits than did on-time graduates within each year of high school, and the cumulative course credit accrual gap increased with each subsequent year. | | The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) | | February 2009 |
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| | Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the economy won't improve without the billions of dollars for schools in President Barack Obama's recovery plan. "If we want to stimulate the economy, we need a better-educated workforce," Duncan said in an interview with The Associated Press. "That's the only way, long-term, we're going to get out of this economic crisis," he said. | | MSNBC | | February 2009 |
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| | A series of winter storms in 2003 closed schools in Maryland for several days. University researcher — and a parent — Dave E. Marcotte started wondering if all those days of lost learning would affect students’ test performance. The results of his investigation might surprise you — or maybe not. | | The Daily Gazette - Schenectady, NY | | January 2009 |
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| | The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), reauthorized in 2004, requires that the Department of Education report annually on the progress made toward the provision of a free appropriate public education to all children with disabilities and the provision of early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities. The two volumes of the 28th Annual Report contain information on the children and students being served under IDEA, state-level data profiles, and extensive tables of state-reported data. | | United States Department of Education | | January 2009 |
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