Education - All Reports and Products
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Report: Special Education Financing Study for the District of Columbia
The District has a long history of difficulties in regard to special education that have been well-documented. Through this study, AIR has compiled and analyzed data, visited schools, and conducted interviews and focus groups to learn as much as possible about the current state of special education in the District.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Report: The Status of State-level Response to Intervention Policies and Procedures in the West Region States and Five Other States
Response to intervention (RTI) can be both a system for providing early interventions to struggling students and a special education diagnostic tool for evaluating and identifying students with specific learning disabilities.
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Saturday, August 1, 2009
Report: Six Years and Counting: The ECHSI Matures (2009)
This is the fifth annual synthesis report for the Early College High School Initiative.
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Report: Achievement Gaps: How Black & White Students in Public Schools Perform in Math & Reading
Detailed information on the size of the achievement gaps between Black and White students at both the national and state level and how those achievement gaps have changed over time.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Video: The Second Derivative: Panel Discussion
In June of 2009, AIR released a new international grading index. Watch a video of the panel discussion with Gary Phillips Dane Linn, Douglas Levin and Mitch Chester.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Video: The Second Derivative: Report Presentation
In June of 2009, AIR released a new international grading index. Watch a video of the report presentation.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Report: A Systematic Review of REESE’s Evaluation Portfolio: Final Report
This report shows the results of AIR's review of the Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program's evaluation portfolio.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Report: The Second Derivative
A new international grading index that provides states, school districts and policymakers with a way to determine where their students rank in comparison with their peers around the world.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Report: U.S. Performance Across International Assessments of Student Achievement: Special Supplement to The Condition of Education 2009
This special analysis examines the performance of U.S. students in reading, mathematics, and science compared with the performance of their peers in other countries that participated in PIRLS, PISA, and TIMSS in terms of students’ average scores and the percentage of students reaching internationally benchmarked performance levels.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Report: How Massachusetts Students Compare to Hong Kong Students in Grade 3 Mathematics
AIR identified differences between the items on Hong Kong’s and Massachusetts’ internal mathematics assessments administered in the spring of grade 3 in 2007 to gather insight into the relative mathematical expectations in Hong Kong and Massachusetts.
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Saturday, May 9, 2009
Report: Good Instruction is Good for Everyone—Or Is It? English Language Learners in a Balanced Literacy Approach
This article, authored by distinguished AIR researcher Jennifer O’Day, compares the effects of selected instructional practices on both English Language Learners (ELLs) and non-ELLs.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tool: Capacity Building Planning Tool
This tool is used to assist a State Leadership Team to develop and implement procedures to: scale-up the adoption and use of a targeted evidence-based practice or program and evaluate the extent to which implementation of the practice or program has occurred over time.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Brochure: NCTI Brochure
The National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI) advances learning opportunities for all students, with a special focus on individuals with disabilities.
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
Report: Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries: 2009
This report describes how the education system in the United States compares with education systems in the other G-8 countries--Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom.
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Report: Transitioning English Language Learners, Annotated Bibliography
The TELL project is a review of literature and critical annotated bibliography to provide an overview and critique of the research related to the transition of English language learners.
