Education & learning publications
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Individualized Education Programs for English Learners With Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Educators and family members who participate in IEP meetings for English learners with significant cognitive disabilities can use this brief to plan for quality meetings and successful school experiences for…
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Lifewide or School-Only Learning: Approaches to Addressing the Developing World’s Learning Crisis
This cluster randomized controlled trial tested the impact of school-only and lifewide-learning (LWL) approaches to supporting early-grade learning over 2 years in rural Rwanda.
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Linked Learning San Bernardino (LLSB): Accelerating College and Career Readiness in Low-Performing Schools
This technical report provides an independent evaluation examining both the program implementation and the impact of the program on students’ cognitive and noncognitive outcomes.
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The Apple and ConnectED Initiative: Baseline and year 2 findings from principal, teacher, and student surveys
This report presents findings from large-scale surveys conducted with principals, teachers, and students at participating schools.
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Improvement Science in Teacher Preparation at California State University: How Teacher Preparation Partnerships are Building Capacity to Learn to Improve
This paper describes how three principles of improvement science guided reforms at teacher preparation programs (TPPs) participating in the New Generation of Educators Initiative (NGEI).
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Why does the rain fall down instead of up? How parents support science learning, and how media can help
A new study examined the ways that families think about and engage young children in science, and how they use science-related media to support these efforts.
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The challenge of assessing “knowledge in use”: Examples from three-dimensional science learning and instruction
This symposium includes four papers focused on meeting challenges in the design and use of assessments of science proficiency.
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Pathway Schools Initiative: Fundamental evaluation summary
This report summarizes the progress made by the schools that participated in the Pathway Schools Initiative through the 2017–18 school year.
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The Evidence Based Curriculum Design Framework: Leveraging Diverse Perspectives in the Design Process
This paper describes our approach to integrating the learning sciences with best practices in app design: a design framework that involves researchers and developers in a co-development process to create…
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The impact of career and technical education on students with disabilities
We use multiple years of administrative data from Massachusetts to estimate the effect of participating in CTE on the academic outcomes of students with disabilities.
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Chicago’s Pay for Success Program Evaluation: Year 3
For each year of the program, SRI International, the program’s independent evaluator, releases a report of student performance across kindergarten readiness, special education utilization, and third-grade literacy.
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Crowdsourcing Emotional Speech
We describe the methodology for the collection and annotation of a large corpus of emotional speech data through crowdsourcing.