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  The Color of Discipline: Sources of Racial and Gender

  1/1/00 - Skiba, R.J., Simmons, A.B., Ritter, S., Kohler, K., Henderson, M., Wu, T.

  Disproportionate representation of minority students, especially African Americans, in a variety of school disciplinary procedures has been documented almost continuously for the past 25 years, yet there has been little study of the factors contributing to that disproportionality. Whether disparate treatment of a group can be judged as bias depends largely on the extent to which other hypotheses that could provide a credible alternative explanation of the discrepancy can be ruled out. In...

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  The technical adequacy of assessments for alternate student populations

  1/10/09 - Rabinowitz, S., Sato, E.

  These guidelines are designed to assist developers and consumers of assessments for English language learners in particular and special student populations in general. They are intended to help evaluate the technical adequacy (i.e., validity, reliability, freedom from bias) of assessments used to meet relevant Title I and Title III requirements under No Child Left Behind.

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  Thinking about the students who may qualify to participate in an alternate assessment based on modified academic achievement standards (AA-MAS): A tool for study groups.

  1/5/09 - Berndt, S., Ebben, B.

  This publication describes an activity used by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to learn more about the characteristics of students who may qualify to participate in an alternate assessment based on modified academic achievement standards (AA-MAS).

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  Top Tips for State Dispute Resoultion System Managers

  1/16/09 - Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education,

  "Following an extensive review, CADRE identified four States with exemplary dispute resolution systems that provide effective processes for written complaints, mediation, due process hearings, and alternate dispute resolution. In September 2009, CADRE brought together representatives from each of these States. Dee Ann Wilson of Iowa, Jo Anne Pool Blades of Oklahoma, Kerry Smith of Pennsylvania, and Jack Marker of Wisconsin convened in Eugene, Oregon for a dynamic exchange of ideas and...

• UNDERSTANDING HOW U.S. SECONDARY SCHOOLS SORT STUDENTS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES: ARE ALL STUDENTS BEING SERVED EQUALLY?

  1/1/08 - Mayer, Anysia

  This article reviews the current research literature on how secondary schools sort students for instructional purposes. Current sorting practices are based on early American philosophies of schooling where the goal of school was to provide students with different curricula based on preparation for future occupations. The article reviews the research on the educational consequences of tracking as well as the processes school's use to place students in various courses. The article also...

• Urban School Achievement Gap as a Metaphor to Conceal U.S. Apartheid Education

  1/1/07 - Cross, Beverly E.

  This article uses the metaphor of the achievement gap to make transparent, discuss, and critique the analytical frame/lens used in the articles to analyze urban education. Doing such an analysis is essential to producing an additional lens that has utility in theory and practice. It facilitates a historical analysis of urban education and leads to creating an argument for the new frame in advancing future work in urban education. This will not represent a response to the articles in the...

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  Virtual K-12 Public School Programs and Students with Disabilities: Issues and Recommmendations

  1/28/11 - Müller, Eve

  Virtual education is instruction in a learning environment where the teacher and the student are separated by time, space or both; and the teacher provides course content via course management applications, multimedia resources, Internet, video conferencing or other alternatives to traditional face-to-face education. Terms commonly used to describe particular types of virtual education include ‘distance education,’ ‘online learning’ or ‘e-learning’; and ‘blended,�...

• WEBINAR: Alternate assessments based on modified achievement standards

  1/1/07 - The Advocacy Institute,

  This webinar was onducted October 9, 2007 for the nation's Parent Training and Information Centers & Community Parent Resource Centers. Presenters were: Rachel Quenemoen, Senior Research Fellow, NCEO and Candace Cortiella, Director, The Advocacy Institute

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  Working without a net: How new teachers from three prominent alternate route programs describe their first year on the job

  1/3/09 - National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality,

  Working Without a Net provides additional results from the new-teacher survey conducted by Public Agenda. It focuses on new teachers in high-needs schools, comparing the perspectives of those from traditional teacher education versus those from three alternate-route programs: Teach for America, Troops to Teachers, and The New Teacher Project.

• “The alternative basic certification program in special education: In search of quantity and quality in special education.”

  1/1/96 - Edelen Smith, P. and T. W. Sileo (1996).