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The goal of implementing a culture-based curriculum that draws upon indigenous knowledge, traditions, and language is currently in competition with demands placed on schools by high stakes educational reform to implement a standards-based curriculum in schools.

This Research & Policy Brief was developed to help states consider options for assessing student learning growth for the majority of teachers who teach content not assessed through standardized tests.

This study compares high school English language learners and non-English language learners performance on content assessments.

This position statement paper proposes a multidimensional paradigm shift from a deficit- to a strength-focused perspective to meet the needs of CLD students in gifted education.

REL Central, at the request of the National Indian Education Association (NIEA), compiled this review of 128 abstracts from research on the education of American Indian/Alaska Native youth.

This policy brief provides a synthesis of effective practices for instructing ELs; presents four research-based essential elements critical for EL program implementation, teacher reflection, and monitoring of teacher effectiveness; and concludes with program and policy recommendations.

Recent randomized experiments have found that seemingly "small" social-psychological interventions in educationthat is, brief exercises that target students' thoughts, feelings, and beliefs in and about schoolcan lead to large gains in student achievement and sharply reduce achievemen