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  Practices for English Language Learners: An Overview of Instructional Practices for English-Language Learners:Prominent Themes and Future Directions

  1/22/07 - Russell Gersten , Scott Baker, Equity Alliance at ASU

  Anyone involved with schools — especially urban schools — knows firsthand how often discussions of bilingual education generate more heat than light. In such a politically charged context, it is often difficult to know where to look for up-to-date and fair summaries of what research is discovering about best practices. We think that the following review by Russell Gersten and Scott Baker brings some needed illumination to this controversial area. Our hope is that educators and...

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  Equity in Special Education Placement: A School Self-Assessment Guide for Culturally Responsive Practice Form A (Administrators)

  1/24/09 - Heraldo V. Richards, Alfredo J. Artiles, Janette Klingner, Ayanna Brown , Equity Alliance at ASU

  An instrument that allows schools to conduct a self-assessment of their programs and practices in five domains: (a) School Governance, Organization, Policy and Climate, (b) Family Involvement, (c) Curriculum, (d) Organization of Learning, and (e) Special Education Referral Process and Programs.

• Learning Academies: Module 2, Mining Data

  1/1/04 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,

  This module was designed by National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI) to help building leadership teams learn the skills required to mine data and use it to make decisions. As principals and teacher leaders become confident in their ability to query their data, they will become strong role models and coaches for the entire faculty. This module takes a serious look at understanding and using data and other evidence of student performance to improve student learning. Participants...

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  On Infusing Disability Studies into the General Curriculum

  1/5/09 - Phil Ferguson, Equity Alliance at ASU

  Teachers and administrators are all familiar with the growing movement toward the inclusion of children with disabilities into general education classrooms. Discussions about how to do this, with which children, at what ages, and with what supports and structural reforms are happening in urban school districts across the country. As a result, there is an increasing amount of information and research about the “how and why” of inclusion. Indeed, some of that information is available from...

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  The Building Leadership Team

  1/5/09 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement, , University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center,, Equity Alliance at ASU

  A Building Leadership Team (BLT) is a school-based group of individuals who work to provide strong organizational process for school renewal and improvement. BLTs orchestrate the work of school professionals, administrators, families, and students through the school improvement process. This process includes the examination of current, successful practices and also those areas that are of concern to the school community. In addition, BLTs plan for progress, achievement, and risk. This...

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  The Mississippi Cultural Responsivity Matrix- A Teachers’ Self-study Guide for Culturally Responsive Practices in Grades K-6: Reading and Mathematics

  1/24/09 - National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems,, Equity Alliance at ASU

  Assists teachers and administrators in assessing the degree to which mandated curricular guides in mathematics and reading curricula and strategies are responsive to the socio-cultural experiences and backgrounds of their students.

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  Choice without equity: Charter school segregation and the need for civil rights standards

  1/9/10 - Erica Frankenberg, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Jia Wang

  "The theory of charters is that they can offer something unique because they are autonomous and can be creative in offering distinctive and excellent educational programs. It is very strange that the Obama Administration has not embraced a larger and older movement, the magnet school movement, which already does this and has a much better civil rights stance. Pilot schools that operate with great autonomy but stay within public school systems have also had considerable success in Boston and...

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  Evaluation of the school administration manager project

  1/26/10 - Brenda J. Turnbull, M. Bruce Haslam, Erikson R. Arcaira, Derek L. Riley, Beth Sinclair, Stephen Coleman

  "From its beginnings in a handful of schools in Louisville, KY, the School Administration Manager Project – supported by Wallace as part of its educational leadership improvement initiative – has sought to help principals delegate some of their administrative and managerial tasks and spend more of their time interacting with teachers, students and others on instructional matters. Often, this has meant hiring a new school-level employee – a School Administration Manager, or SAM – to...

• Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education: What Do We know, How Do We Know It, and What Do We Need to Know?

  1/1/03 - Farkas, George

  This paper reviews what we have learned about racial discrepancies in education, with particular attention to those that might be attributable to discrimination. Empirical studies have found that, on average, African American, Latino, and American Indian children arrive at kindergarten or first grade with lower levels of oral language, prereading, and premathematics skills, as well as lesser general knowledge, than that possessed by White and Asian American children. African American...

• Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education: What Do We Know, How Do We Know It, and What Do We Need to Know?

  1/1/03 - Farkas, George

  This paper reviews what we have learned about racial discrepancies in education, with particular attention to those that might be attributable to discrimination. Empirical studies have found that, on average, African American, Latino, and American Indian children arrive at kindergarten or first grade with lower levels of oral language, prereading, and premathematics skills, as well as lesser general knowledge, than that possessed by White and Asian American children. African American...

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  School-site administrators: a California county and regional perspective on labor market trends

  1/1/10 - Melissa Eiler White, Anthony B. Fong, Reino Makkonen

  "This study explores the differences among California's counties and regions in their needs for new school-site administrators in the coming decade, as driven by a combination of projected administrator retirements and projected student enrollment changes. The projected need for new school-site administrators, based solely on these combined factors, ranges from 9 percent to 71 percent of counties' 2007/08 administrator workforce, with the highest need counties generally in the Central Valley...

• Uncertainty and decision making in teaching: Implications for managing line professionals

  1/1/89 - Bacharach, S., Conley, S., T. J. Sergiovanni and J. H. Moore

  Most of this book's 22 chapters were written as background papers that were presented at a national conference on restructuring schooling held at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, August 18-21, 1987. Framing the chapters of this book is the notion that if rational management systems and theoretical treatises about promoting school excellence do not take into account the realities of the workplace, they will not bring about sustained improvements in our nation's schools. Chapters in...

• "PRACTICING WHAT WE PREACH: AN ARGUMENT FOR COOPERATIVE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATORS"

  1/1/05 - Coke, Pamela K.

  Van Allen (1996) supports a paradigm shift in how Americans think about education, from a view of school as hierarchy to school as continuum. While the relationship between elementary and secondary education is not always visible, teachers can model cooperative learning for students by working as a team across grade levels to solve problems, complete tasks, and accomplish common goals, such as reducing gaps and redundancies in education. Schools could respond more productively to elementary...

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  A child by any other name

  1/16/09 - Kate Scorgie

  "For fifteen years I have been listening to the stories of parents of children with disabilities. Typically these stories begin with accounts of academic struggle or classroom behavior issues, followed by numerous meetings with teachers, administrators and counselors, a barrage of assessments and, finally, a diagnosis-and a label."

• A new wave of evidence

  1/1/02 - Anne T. Henderson & Karen L. Mapp

  Many policymakers, administrators, and funders ask for evidence that parents' involvement helps student achievements, including test scores. This report provides some useful answers.

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  Accounting for resource use at the school-level and below: The missing link in education administration and policy making

  1/5/09 - Dwight Denison, Leanna Stiefel, William Hartman, Michele Moser Deegan

  "In this paper, we analyze the challenges involved in establishing a system to track costs at the school, grade, and subject level that will fit the needs of both internal and external users. To begin, we review the literature on cost accounting that is relevant to micro-level costs and the research that analyzes sub-district level resources. Next, we describe general challenges that arise in reporting at the level of the school and below and we then discuss school-level reporting in...