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  Arrested Development: Addressing the School Discipline Crisis in Florida

  1/1/06 - Florida State Conference NAACP, Advancement Project, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc.,

  Arresting Development: Addressing the School Discipline Crisis in Florida reveals the findings of these public hearings, which were held in five cities and covered six school districts: Pinellas/Hillsborough (St. Petersburg, FL), Duval (Jacksonville, FL), Palm Beach (West Palm Beach, FL), Broward (Fort Lauderdale, FL), and Miami-Dade (Miami, FL). This report is intended to document the compelling and informative discussions that occurred among the hundreds of hearing participants—parents...

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  Creating a Relationship between Professional Development and English Language Learners

  1/1/09 - Sally Nathenson-Mejia

  We are a team of professors and instructors from the university working on a large scale PD initiative with teachers in the Denver metropolitan area who have English language learners as their students. From the university, Ruth Brancard, Mark Clarke, Alan Davis, Jennifer QuinnWilliams, Barbara Vaille and I head a group of experienced, qualified district instructors and coaches. The professional development we provide includes courses on effective teaching and assessment practices for...

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  Developing early warning systems to identify potential high school dropouts

  1/1/08 - Heppen, Jessica B., Therriault, S. B.

  The information that follows and an accompanying tool developed by the National High School Center can help schools and districts to systematically collect early warning indicator data so they can identify students at highest risk of dropout. An early warning system can be implemented at the school as well as at district levels. The role of the state is critical for providing support that can help districts and schools collect the key information with relative ease, including the use of...

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  Districts on the Move: Unified Student Service in Boston Public Schools: Building a Continuum of Services through Standards-based Reform.

  1/1/01 - Thomas Payzant, Pia Durkin

  This paper tells the unfinished journey of standards-based reform in the Boston Public Schools. It explores the importance of creating a sensible and interdependent relationship between general and special education and illustrates how the strength of working together can impact the power of a large school district to truly serve all students.

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  Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation, and the need for new integration strategies

  1/1/07 - Gary Orfield, Chungmei Lee

  "This new report released by The Civil Rights Project at UCLA finds that for the first time in three decades, the South is in danger of losing its leadership as the nation's most integrated schools. The report examines the effects of the dual processes of racial transformation and resegregation on the educational opportunity of students, as well as the relationship between race and poverty and its implications in light of the recent Supreme Court decisions. The report concludes with...

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  Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction:Results from the Second Year of a Randomized Controlled Study

  1/1/09 - Eric Isenberg , Steven Glazerman , Martha Bleeker , Amy Johnson , Julieta Lugo-Gil , Mary Grider , Sarah Dolfin , Edward Britton , Melanie Ali

  The report, Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the Second Year of a Randomized Controlled Study, compares outcomes of teachers offered intensive induction activities with full-time mentors to those of teachers with less intensive, less structured induction activities using an experimental study design. This second report includes information from10 districts in which teachers were offered one year of comprehensive induction services ("one-year" districts) and 7...

• Indicator 13 data collection tool-demographic information

  National Secondary Transition Technical Asssistance Center,

  This data collection tool allows states to record individual student IEP data for Indicator 13. The tool is web based and allows data to be stored in a standard Excel spreadsheet. The tool enables schools, districts, or states to monitor their I-13 passing rates relative to key student features including ethnicity, disability category, district or school, gender, and level of service.

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  Ineffective Uses of ESEA Title II Funds: Funding Doesn’t Improve Student Achievement

  1/1/09 - Robin Chait , Raegen Miller

  Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA, provides approximately $3 billion to support state and district-level activities that improve teacher and principal quality and thereby improve student achievement. However, there is little proof that the program is achieving this goal. Part of the problem is that Title II funding is not specifically targeted at activities that are likely to yield a significant return on investment. In fact, districts use the bulk of their...

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  Integration Defended: Berkeley Unified’s Strategy to Maintain School Diversity

  1/1/09 - Lisa Chavez, Erica Frankenberg

  The Berkeley, California school district has successfully resisted legal restraints to end desegregation efforts and, in the process, provided a possible model for many other districts across the country which want to keep the benefits of integrated schools but must face the limits on voluntary integration plans imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court two years ago.

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  Key issue: Recruiting teachers for schools serving english language learners

  1/1/09 - Garcia, P., Potemski, A.

  As the number of ELLs continues to grow in a more diverse range of districts, education leaders will have to develop creative and comprehensive recruitment strategies to ensure that all ELLs in the district can be served by highly qualified teachers. This Key Issue includes strategies and resources that can help.

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  NIUSI Accreditation Standards: A Blueprint for Inclusive Schools

  Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins , Elizabeth Kozleski, Deidre Magee, Anne Smith , Jim Lundstrom

  This tool provides a framework for assessing schools on their inclusive practices. A set of 15 standards frames governance, continuous improvement, teacher practice, student performance and family involvement. This tool is designed for use by accreditation bodies as well as by districts committed to ensuring effective early intervening as well as high quality special education services and supports.

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  Practical guidelines for the education of english language learners: Research-based recommendations for the use of accomodations in large scale assessments. (Under cooperative agreement grant S283B050034 for U.S. Department of Education).

  1/1/06 - Francis, D., Rivera, M. , Lesaux, N., Kieffer, M., Rivera, H.

  Book 3 of 3: This book, released in October 2006, is the third in a series of three Practical Guidelines for the Education of English Language Learners. NCLB has increased awareness of the academic needs and achievement of ELLs as schools, districts, and states are held accountable for teaching English and content knowledge to ELLs. ELLs present a unique set of challenges to educators because of the central role played by academic language proficiency in the acquisition and assessment of...

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  Preserving integration options for Latino children: A manual for educators, civil rights leaders, and the community

  1/1/08 - The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF),

  Explains the effect of the Supreme Court’s 2007 decision for Latino students and outlines what school districts can legally do to promote diversity and equal educational opportunity in the public schools.

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  Recruiting New Teachers to Urban School Districts: What Incentives Will Work?

  9/25/09 - Anthony T. Milanowski, Hope Longwell-Grice, Felicia Saffold, Janice Jones, Kristen Schomisch, Allan Odden

  Many urban districts in the United States have difficulty attracting and retaining quality teachers, yet they are often the most in need of them. In response, U.S. states and districts are experimenting with financial incentives to attract and retain high-quality teachers in high-need, low-achieving, or hard-to-staff urban schools. However, relatively little is known about how effective financial incentives are for recruiting new teachers to high-need urban schools. This research explores...

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  Recruiting quality teachers in mathematics, science, and special education for urban and rural schools

  1/1/07 - National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality,

  This publication focuses on six strategies for recruiting highly qualified teachers in mathematics, science, and special education: grow-your-own strategies, partnerships with institutions of higher education to create alternative licensure routes, financial incentives, streamlined hiring processes, improved working conditions and support, and approaches and policies to stem the tide of attrition and migration. These strategies can assist schools and districts to be competitive in the job...

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  Rescuing Brown V. Board of Education: Profiles of twelve school districts pursuing socioeconomic school integration

  1/1/07 - Richard D. Kahlenberg

  The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to curtail significantly the ability of school districts to integrate by race has shifted attention to a new and growing alternative form of integration based on the socioeconomic status of students. In a report released on June 28, TCF Senior Fellow, Richard D. Kahlenberg examines twelve school systems and finds that when socioeconomic school integration plans are well implemented, they can boost academic achievement and also provide students with a...