The Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence at the George Washington University and the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) have recently released a series of guides, which provide resources, tools, and guidance for creating safe school settings and involving the community in supporting students of all ages. These publications are based on previous work done by the Hamilton Fish Institute and the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. The resources have all been updated with the latest research by leading experts in the fields of school safety and youth mentoring. They provide practitioners with state-of-the-art strategies and concepts for improving school safety and climate, and for providing valuable adult mentors for students who could use some extra support and encouragement.
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June/July 2008 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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School Safety and Mentoring Guides: Strategies for Creating a Safe Learning Environment for Children
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Using data from all 50 states, the Center on Education Policy (CEP). recently released a report addressing two key questions: has student achievement increased and have achievement gaps narrowed since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted in 2002. In addition, a comparison was also made between state test results and results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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The Center on Education Policy (CEP) recently released a report examining the impact of NCLB on student achievement and teacher quality in some rural districts and the challenges those rural districts face in complying with the Act. The findings in this report are drawn from CEP's 2006-07 nationally representative survey of school districts and from interviews with administrators in eight rural districts in various parts of the country.
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The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) recently released a report exploring the nature of micro-budgeting decisions and how they support or hamper districts' reform strategies. The authors provide a framework to help district leaders recognize different kinds of allocations and discuss how different reform strategies work better with some allocation methods.
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The Alliance for Excellent Education recently released this updated brief summarizing the negative economic impact that high school dropouts have on their own earning potential as well as on the nation as a whole over their life time. The brief describes the negative lifetime economic impact that high school dropouts have on the economy by state and uses these data to make the case for high school improvement.
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The National Center for Education Statistics recently released a report presenting information about the educational, home, and community experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN. fourth- and eighth-grade students that was collected during the National Indian Education Study (NIES. of 2007) AI/AN students represent about 1 percent of the student population in the United States. The three major areas of findings that are described in this report include: characteristics of AI/AN students, characteristics of their teachers and schools, and the integration of native language and culture in their homes and schools.
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The Center on Instruction has a new module to their "Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers". This professional development module consists of a PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes and a Facilitator's Guide enhancing the previously released meta-analysis and practice brief on the subject. Taken as a whole, this set of resources is designed to guide instruction for adolescent struggling readers, particularly secondary interventions within the general education context. The collection enhances understanding of selected research-based instructional practices associated with positive effects for adolescent struggling readers and provides a professional development tool to train facilitators on how to implement these research-based practices.
