The Comprehensive School Reform Quality (CSRQ) Center has recently released a report that reviews 18 widely implemented middle and high school comprehensive school reform (CSR) or schoolwide improvement models.
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October 2006 E-newsletter
Below is a listing of our archived monthly e-newsletters. You can view the resources we mentioned in each issue by clicking on the link or Search Resources to find any resource from an e-newsletter or event.
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The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) has recently released 10 new intervention reports highlighting available research on Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Character Education, English Language Learning, and Elementary School Mathematics.
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The Education Commission of the States (ECS) and the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (NCCTQ) have developed a Highly Qualified Teachers (HQT) and Paraprofessional Database that contains research on topics such as state Highly Qualified Teacher (HQT) definitions; High, Objective, Uniform State Standards of Evaluation (HOUSSE) options; and Title I paraprofessional requirements. ECS will update the database as information is made available from states.
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The U.S. Department of Education with the guidance of more than 1,800 Hispanic parents at Parent Information Resource Centers has developed a toolkit that contains information for parents of preschool, elementary, and secondary students. Tips on learning to read and information on NCLB are also provided.
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The U.S. Department of Education has recently recognized 250 schools as NCLB Blue Ribbon Schools. Schools qualified for the program if at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds dramatically improved performance to high levels on state tests; or, if students, regardless of background, achieved in the top 10 percent of their state on state tests or, in the case of private schools, in the top 10 percent of the nation on nationally normed tests.
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The National Center for Educational Statistics has released this document that highlights key findings from the full report, Teaching Science in Five Countries: Results From the TIMSS 1999 Video Study.
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The Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship is accepting applications for the 2007-2008 school year. Einstein Fellows spend the school year in Washington, D.C., sharing their expertise with policymakers. Fellowships are served with Congress or one of several government agencies such as the Department of Energy, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The goal of the program is to provide an opportunity for teachers to inform national policy and improve communication between the K-12 STEM education community and national leaders. The application deadline is January 8, 2007.
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SchoolsMovingUp will be hosting a webinar on November 30, 2006, that addresses ways to differentiate science instruction for English language learners. The focus of this webinar was middle and high school, but included upper elementary grades, as well.
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The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (NCCTQ) has developed the Model Components for Revised State Highly Qualified Teacher Plans, which help states working to improve their revised state HQT plans. The document captures the components submitted by the nine states who successfully met all six criteria outlined by the U.S. Department of Education.
