Education & learning publications
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Using A Technology-Enhanced Curriculum To Improve The Learning Of Important Mathematics For English Language Learners
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Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom: A practice guide
Designed for elementary school educators and school- and district-level administrators, this guide offers prevention, implementation, and schoolwide strategies that can be used to reduce problematic behavior that interferes with the…
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An Unfinished Canvas: Allocating Funding and Instructional Time for Elementary Arts Education
The study’s aim is to provide California policy-makers and educators with examples and lessons from other jurisdictions that have been more successful in providing all students with access to arts…
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An Unfinished Canvas: Teacher Preparation, Instruction Delivery, and Professional Development in the Arts
Among the major barriers to arts education in California that An Unfinished Canvas identified is the lack of trained and qualified arts specialist teachers, particularly at the elementary school level.
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Contrasting Paths To Small School Reform: Results Of A 5-Year Evaluation Of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s National High Schools Initiative
This article focuses on two contrasting strategies to small-school reform: starting new small high schools, and converting large schools into smaller learning communities.
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Is Alignment Enough? Investigating the Effects of State Policies and Professional Development on Science Curriculum Implementation
This paper focuses on teachers’ perceptions of curricular alignment and on curriculum implementation using empirical data from a statewide systemic inquiry science reform effort targeting students from kindergarten to eighth…
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Development of SRI’s translation systems for broadcast news and broadcast conversations
We present our recent work on developing large-vocabulary Arabic-to-English and Chinese-to-English speech-to-text translation systems for the January 2008 Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) retest evaluation.
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An Unfinished Canvas: A Review of Large-Scale Assessment in K-12 Arts Education
This paper provides a review of the status of large-scale arts assessments and current practice in statewide arts assessment for the purpose of K–12 education accountability.
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Measuring Family Outcomes Considerations for Large-Scale Data Collection in Early Intervention
This article discusses issues and considerations in documenting family outcomes in the context of large-scale assessments involving many families and and describes the initial development of a survey instrument that could…
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The Assistment Builder: Supporting The Life-Cycle Of ITS Content Creation
We present an authoring tool designed to reduce this cost. The ASSISTment Builder is a tool that is designed to effectively create, edit, test, and deploy pseudo-tutor content. The web-based…
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San Francisco Bay Area KIPP Schools, A Study of Early Implementation and Achievement: Final Report
This report describes the implementation and impact of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) in five Bay Area middle schools.
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Poster: Using a Principled Design System to Identify Community College Outcomes
Poster presentation at the annual project manager’s meeting of the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, D.C.