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Each day in the nation's schools, gifted and talented students are at risk for underachievementespecially if they are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds or low-socioeconomic status (SES) families.

This webinar consists of four sections, (1) "Introductions and ELL Background," (2) "PM with CBM," (3) "RTI and ELL," and (4) "A Closer Look at CBM in a RTI Model," and describes the process of how CBM and RTI assist with monitoring ELLs.

One of the nation's most experienced special education administrators details the practice of using data to match instruction and intervention to the particular learning needs of students.

Response to Intervention (RTI) has been heralded by many as the long-awaited alternative to using a discrepancy formula for special education eligibility decisions. RTI focuses on intervening early through a multi-tiered approach where each tier provides interventions of increasing intensity.

Response to Intervention (RTI) was encoded into the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, and is being adopted on a wide scale as an alternative approach to identification of students with learning disabilities.

Do older English as a second language (ESL) children have the same knowledge of word meanings as English as a first language (EL1) children? How important is vocabulary's role in predicting word recognition in these groups?

Teacher education has struggled to better prepare beginning teachers for an increasingly diverse student population. This research examines the role that cooperating teachers play in developing multicultural/equity pedagogy knowledge and skills among student teachers.

This paper reports the results of a study that examined preservice teachers' perceptions of which program experiences contributed to shifts in their culturally responsive dispositions and teaching practices.