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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 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.

Because dual language learners are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. student populationand the majority speak Spanish as a first languagethe new generation of SLPs must have comprehensive knowledge of how to work effectively with bilingual speakers.

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.

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

On December 3, 2004, President Bush signed into law the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004). The revised law is different from the previous version in at least one important respect.

Little research has precisely defined the population of students participating in alternate assessments based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS).

This study modeled vocabulary trajectories in 91 English language learners (ELLs) with Punjabi, Tamil, or Portuguese home languages, and 50 English monolinguals (EL1) from Grades 1 to 6.

Many middle school teachers lack adequate criteria to critically select materials that represent a variety of L2 teaching models. This study analyzes the illustrated and written content of 33 ELL textbooks to determine the range of L2 teaching models represented.

This study builds on previous work to examine parent reasons for enrolling their children in a two-way immersion (TWI) charter school.