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"U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today the upcoming release of the national frameworks for family engagement in which Senior Lecturer Karen Mapp, Ed.M.'93, Ed.D.'99, played an instrumental role developing. In a brief video (see below) played today at the National Family Engagement Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, Duncan thanked Mapp and emphasized the importance of such frameworks."

"Auryn, Inc. Promotes National Reading Month by Offering Complimentary Children's Storybook Apps During the Month of March"

This paper, "Frameworks for Response to Intervention in Early Childhood: Description and Implications," has been jointly developed by the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children, the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and the National Head Start Association. The purpose of the joint paper is to define early childhood response-to-intervention frameworks and to promote a broader understanding and discussion of the topic.

"Cheryl M. Jorgensen, Ph.D., is a member of the affiliate faculty with the National Center on Inclusive Education at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire. In 2008 she received the National Down Syndrome Congress Education Award for her leadership and pioneering research supporting the inclusion of students with Down syndrome. She has written this open letter to Shael Polakow-Suransky, the chief academic officer for New York City schools. "

The broadcast of Dropout Nation and related resources. On Frontline on 9/25/12

"This 18-month Initiative celebrated the work of public school teachers across the country. By recording, sharing, and preserving these stories, we called attention to the invaluable contributions teachers have made to this nation, honored those who have embraced the profession as their calling, encouraged teaching as a career choice, and helped to unify the country behind its teachers."

Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation (SWIFT) is a national K-8 center providing academic and behavioral support to promote the learning and academic achievement of all students, including those with the most extensive needs. SWIFT advances equity and excellence for ALL through the promotion of five core domain areas to support grade level academic and social learning: Administrative Leadership Family and Community Partnership Inclusive Education Framework Inclusive Policy Structure and Practice. Multi-Tiered Systems of Support One of six nationally recognized SWIFT Knowledge Development Sites, the Dr. William W. Henderson Inclusion Elementary School in Dorchester, MA, is featured in this film and highlights some of the SWIFT domains and accompanying features.

"The report, Accountability for College and Career Readiness: Developing a New Paradigm, draws on research, actual practice of states and nations, and input from leading policymakers, researchers, administrators, and practitioners (see list of advisors, below) to develop a vision of this new accountability, which is portrayed in an imagined "51st state." The report was released jointly by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education at Stanford University and the National Center for Innovation in Education (NCIE) at the University of Kentucky. It was authored by Darling-Hammond, NCIE Executive Director Gene Wilhoit, and NCIE staff member, Linda Pittenger."

"A National Online Library of Professional Development Resources Compiled to Help Bridge Research, Policy and Practice. Across states, national organizations and technical assistance investments, an extensive amount of professional development material is available. This library provides local educators with easy access to an array of resources that can be used or customized to meet their needs"

"The State Academic Performance and Improvement Tool allows you to easily see how your state's current performance and improvement over time compare with other states and the national average. The tool uses data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the only assessment with comparable results for all 50 states."

"Using the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks and ACT® test scores, the Condition of College & Career Readiness reports provide national and state snapshots of college readiness of the graduating seniors of the class of 2013 who took the ACT in high school."

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants "The United States' education system is neither coherent nor likely to see great improvements based on its current attempts at reform, a reportRequires Adobe Acrobat Reader released this week by the National Center on Education and the Economy concludes. "

read this just before you posted. thanks! There is a lot to think about...................and change is always inevitable!

"National Center on the Use of Emerging Technologies to Improve Literacy Achievement for Students with Disabilities in Middle School"

"The National Equity Project addresses opportunity gaps to improve learning and education outcomes for all students."

"Since 1994, the National School Reform FacultyTM has created and refined more than 200 protocols and activities to use in Critical Friends Groups®, classrooms, meetings, and beyond. All those familiar protocols which have always been freely available on our website (many of which are found in the NSRF®Resource Book) are still indexed and available below"

"he analysis aims to offer greater insights into reading comprehension. The first-of-its-kind National Assessment of Educational Progress report suggests a consistent relationship between performance on vocabulary questions and the ability of students to comprehend a text, which experts say is consistent with prior research on the subject."

"Please join us on Thursday, March 28th, for the first inaugural School Leadership Summit (SchoolLeadershipSummit.com). This is be a free, global, and online event. We invite school, district, regional, state, national, and other educational leaders to save this date."

SWIFT is a national center focused on providing academic and behavioral support for all students, including those with the most extensive needs. The mission of the SWIFT Center is to assist districts and their schools to engage in a transformational process in concert with their families and communities to achieve equity and excellence for all students.

"Over the past school year, I have had the opportunity to work with educators locally, statewide and nationally who are all in the process of shifting their teaching to meet the requirements of new learning standards, new professional standards and new assessment designs.   I wish that all teachers had the opportunity to experience this kind of collaborative work at so many different levels.  I have done a lot of reflection on what I have learned and would like to share the top 5 ideas with all of you"

"A parody of the Miley Cyrus music video, it examines the love-hate relationship that students have with the national AP exams each May"