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    2005 National School Climate Survey: The experiences of lesbian,gay, bisexual and transgender youth in our nation’s schools.

    1/1/06 - Joseph G. Kosciw, Elizabeth M. Diaz

    "GLSEN's biennial National School Climate Survey is the only national survey to document the experiences of students who identify as LGBT in America's secondary schools."

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    2007 National School Climate Survey: The experiences of lesbian,gay, bisexual and transgender youth in our nation’s schools.

    1/1/08 - Joseph G. Kosciw, Elizabeth M. Diaz, Emily A. Greytak

    "GLSEN's biennial National School Climate Survey is the only national survey to document the experiences of students who identify as LGBT in America's secondary schools. The 2007 survey includes responses from 6,209 LGBT students between the ages of 13 and 21 from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Data collection was conducted through community-based groups, online outreach, and targeted advertising on the social networking site MySpace."

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    A parent's guide for response to intervention (RTI)

    1/1/06 - Cortiella, C.

    This 2006 brief provides an overview of the RTI process and describes how it is implemented in schools. This resource would be useful to parents who are looking for more information about the RTI process and provides specific questions that parents can ask at their children's schools.

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    A User's Guide to Advocacy Evaluation Planning

    1/1/09 - Julia Coffman

    A User's Guide to Advocacy Evaluation Planning was developed for advocates, evaluators, and funders who want guidance on how to evaluate advocacy and policy change efforts. This tool takes users through four basic steps that generate the core elements of an advocacy evaluation plan, including what will be measured and how. The tool helps users: Identify how the evaluation will be used and who will use it to ensure the evaluation delivers the right kind of information when it is needed; Map...

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    Achievement Gaps Between Female and Male Latino Students

    1/1/08 - Julio Cammarota

    Throughout the 1990’s, I documented the education, work and family experiences of Latino youth in California (see my book, Suenos Americanos). My intention was to understand how young Latinos might achieve some success (i.e. educational achievement or decent employment) in a hostile political and economic environment. The most surprising finding of my research was that Latina females fared much better than Latino males, sometimes within the same family.

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    Acknowledging Children’s Positive Behaviors

    1/1/07 - Matt Timm, Sharon Doubet

    This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments.Acknowledging positive behaviors is a strategy...

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    Acronyms and Agencies

    1/1/07 - Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers,

    Listed below are acronyms related to early intervention, education, special education, and other laws important to individuals with disabilities and their families. For related information, also read Acronyms and the Law

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    Acronyms and the Law

    1/1/07 - Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers,

    Listed below are acronyms related to early intervention, education, special education, and other laws important to individuals with disabilities and their families. For related information, also read Acronyms and Agencies.

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    Another Inclusion Effort: Education for Social Justice for Students with Disabilities

    1/1/08 - Carole Edelsky

    Students with disabilities have a right to a high quality education, an education that goes beyond a focus on skills and instead sets its sights on loftier goals (promoting equity), more ethical dispositions (e.g., a concern for fairness), and more elusive but critical habits of mind (e.g., engaging with inquiry). All students deserve such an education, and students with disabilities are no exception. What does such an education look like? What is the teacher doing? And what is the principal...

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    Assessment of Deafblind Access to Manual Language Systems (ADAMLS)

    1/1/07 - Robbie Blaha, Brad Carlson

    The Assessment of Deafblind Access to Manual Language Systems (ADAMLS) is a resource for educational teams who are responsible for developing appropriate adaptations and strategies for children who are deafblind and who are candidates for learning manual language systems. Includes strategies for organizing the assessment process, assessment questions with considerations for adaptations, and summary results.

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    Assisting students struggling with mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for elementary and middle schools (NCEE 2009-4060)

    1/1/09 - Gersten, R. , Beckmann, S. , Clarke, B. , Foegen, A. , Marsh, L. , Star, J. R. , Witzel, B.

    This Practice Guide, released by IES in April 2009, aims to help educators develop and implement Response to Intervention to assist students struggling in math. The focus is building an instructional program in order to improve outcomes for students who have difficulty with math. The guide presents recommendations about screening, instruction, and progress monitoring and indicates the quality of the research base that supports them. It includes common questions and potential concerns that...

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    Assistive Technology for Infants, Toddlers,and Young Children with Disabilities

    1/1/06 - Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers,

    Research shows that assistive technology (AT) can help young children with disabilities to learn developmental skills.(1) Its use may help infants and toddlers to improve in many areas: • social skills including sharing and taking turns • communication skills • attention span • fine and gross motor skills • self confidence and independence The right type of assistive technology can improve a child’s ability to communicate. This in turn may help reduce some negative behaviors...

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    Basic facts about low-income children: Birth to age 18

    1/1/08 - Douglas-Hall, A., Chau, M.

    Estimates in this data display are “based on the U.S. Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement, March 2008, representing information for calendar year 2007.” Details include (a) numbers and percentages in low-income families; (b) changes over time; (c) federal poverty level figures; (d) family characteristics; (e) variation’s by children’s age; (f) variations by race/ethnicity; (g) variations by parents’ country of birth; and (g) variations by region of...

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    Becoming Culturally Responsive Educators: Rethinking Teacher Education Pedagogy

    1/1/06 - Cathy Kea, Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley, Heraldo V. Richards

    This practitioner brief deals with designing teacher education programs (TEPs) that are mindful of student diversity. It applies to all teacher educators, teachers and parents. Despite the steadily increasing numbers of culturally and linguistically diverse student populations in schools, not all TEPs readily embrace multicultural education or culturally responsive teacher education pedagogy. In this brief, the authors demonstrate the need for rethinking current approaches to teacher...

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    Before and after-school care arrangements and activities of school-age minority children

    Thurlow, M., Durán, R., Kato, K., Albus, D.

    This report is a first look at the before- and after-school care, programs, and activities of language minority children based on the National Household Education Survey: 2001. It describes the characteristics of the children and their before- and after-school care, programs, and activities, and also examines the relationship of some of these to school grades and school problems, two important outcome variables. The report also looks for the first time at the group of language minority...

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    Being an evidence-based practitioner: What does it take to be an evidence-based practitioner?

    Strain, P. , Dunlap, G.

    This fact sheet describes what evidence-based practitioners do, notes some of the challenges that affect the implementation of evidence-based practices, and offers advice for addressing those challenges.

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