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    Democracy at risk: The need for a new federal policy in education

    1/1/08 - The Forum for Education and Democracy,

    Prepared by Linda Darling-Hammond and George Wood, this report calls on the federal government to payoff the "education debt," invest in a new "Marshall Plan" for teachers and school leaders, support educational research and innovation, and engage and educate local communities.

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    Educating homeless children in Chicago

    1/1/08 - Amy Dworsky

    This report highlights the results of a study that examined the educational needs of a group of homeless children in the Chicago Public Schools. The research involved both qualitative interviews with key informants familiar with the problems facing homeless families with children in Chicago and quantitative analyses of administrative data from Inner Voice, an agency that provides services to chronically homeless families, and the Chicago Public Schools. Generally speaking, the educational...

  • Engaging students with school: The essential dimension of dropout prevention programs TELESEMINAR

    1/22/08 - Christenson, S.

    Student engagement with school, a multidimensional construct, is considered the primary theoretical model for understanding dropout and is, quite frankly, the bottom line in interventions to promote school completion. Variously described as a commitment to and investment in learning, identification and belonging at school, participation in the school environment, and initiation of an activity to accomplish an outcome, engagement is associated with desired academic, social, and emotional...

  • Improving Education: The Promise of Inclusive Schooling

    1/1/01 - Dianne L. Ferguson, Audrey Desjarlais, Gwen Meyer, National Institute for Urban School Improvement

    The purpose of education is to ensure that every student gains access to knowledge, skills, and information that will prepare them to contribute to America’s communities and workplaces. This central purpose is made more challenging as schools must accommodate students with ever more diverse backgrounds, abilities, and interests. For students with disabilities, achieving this common purpose means thinking again about the consequences of special and general education as separate systems, and...

  • Inclusive Education for Equity

    1/1/09 - Equity Alliance at ASU,, Kathleen King

    Inclusive education, in policy and practice, rejects the exclusion and segregation of students, for ANY reason: gender, language, household income, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, national origin, ability, or any dis/ability. Simultaneously, because of an active commitment to equity for all students, inclusive educational systems maximize the participation of all learners, by making learning opportunities relevant and high-quality. This is only achieved through the systemic exploration...

  • Online survey on instructional strategies for English language learners with disabilities

    1/1/06 - Deb Albus, Shyyan, V., Thurlow, M.

    The current study, an online survey about instructional strategies for ELLs with disabilities, was designed to build on the findings of the previous study about educator perceptions of instructional strategies. Although the current study did not use consensus building methods, it was similarly designed to obtain educators’ perspectives about instructional strategies for reading, mathematics, and science. This survey, in contrast to the previous study, included a broader range than only...

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    Teaching English Language Learners: A Complex System

    1/1/09 - Amy Potemski

    Recruiting and preparing teachers of English language learners (ELLs) involves learning a complex educational subsystem. Many variables affect the education of ELLs, including changing demographics, policies at the federal and state levels, requirements for teachers, and program models. The goals of this brief are to set the policy and practice context of educating ELLs and to explain how this context affects teachers and teacher quality.

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    Understanding English Language Learners' Needs and the Language Acquisition Process

    1/1/06 - Alicja Rieger, Ewa McGrail

    This OnPoint tackles the complexity of English language learners’ needs from our point of view. We are native Polish-speaking teacher educators who use our own experiences and knowledge as English language learners in methods courses that we teach in teacher education programs in the United States. We both were born and raised in Poland, and share our passion for our native language and culture with our students, who are either already practicing public school teachers or in the process of...

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    A developmental perspective on college & workplace readiness

    1/1/08 - Lippman, L., Atienza, A., Rivers, A., Keith, J.

    This report provides a developmental perspective on what competencies young people need to be ready for college, the workplace, and the transition to adulthood. National hand-wringing about the lack of preparedness of high school graduates for college and the workplace has catalyzed researchers, educators, and policymakers to define the skills and competencies students need in order to be successful. These prescriptions tend to focus either on college readiness or on workplace readiness. At...

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    A State Profile of Efforts to Create Culturally Responsive Educational Systems: Connecticut

    1/1/09 - Elizabeth Kozleksi, Amanda Sullivan, Kara Sujansky

    This report provides a snapshot of Connecticut’s efforts to provide for the education of students identified as having disabilities and students identified as CLD.2 We use NCCRESt’s conceptual framework for culturally responsive educational systems, which focuses on the connections between people, policies, and practices, to provide a schema for analyzing the relationships between federal, state, LEA, and school policies.

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    A State Profile of Efforts to Create Culturally Responsive Educational Systems: North Carolina

    1/1/09 - Elizabeth Kozleski, Amanda Sullivan

    This State Profile provides a snapshot of North Carolina's efforts to address the disproportionate representation of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in special education.

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    A State Profile of Efforts to Create Culturally Responsive Educational Systems: Tennessee

    1/1/08 - Elizabeth Kozleski, Amanda Sullivan, Federico Waitoller

    This State Profile provides a snapshot of Tennessee's efforts to address the disproportionate representation of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in special education.

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    A State Profile of Efforts to Create Culturally Responsive Educational Systems: Wisconsin

    1/1/08 - Elizabeth Kozleski, Amanda Sullivan, Federico Waitoller

    This State Profile provides a snapshot of Wisconsin's efforts to address the disproportionate representation of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in special education.

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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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    Achieving Transparency in the Public Reporting of 2006-2007 Assessment Results

    1/1/09 - Debra Albus, Martha Thurlow, Chris Bremer

    The 2006-2007 school year was the eighth annual reporting period since disaggregating the performance of students with disabilities on state and district-wide assessments was required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It is the fifth reporting period since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and the eleventh in a series of National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) reports documenting state public reporting practices. Historically, the number of...

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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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