SRI International
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Early Care and Education Is an Essential Component of the Foster Care System: A View From Arkansas
This brief presents findings from a foster parent survey about the impact of ECE on their ability to accept new foster placements and the challenges they face in searching for ECE.
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Dan Reynolds
Senior Education Researcher, SRI Education
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Observing Classrooms Through a Digital Lens: Examining the Reliability and Feasibility of Video Observations in Pre-kindergarten Classrooms
The Early Childhood Classroom Observation (ECCO) study was designed to better understand how video recordings can support high-quality measurement of pre-kindergarten classrooms, using two common measures of early learning programs, CLASS and ECERS-3. The study team compared the reliability of observations gathered through video and live (in-person) classroom observations.
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Success in Action: Four Stories of Early Childhood Instructional Coaching
Effective instructional coaching has long demonstrated positive impacts on teacher practices and early learning outcomes. This case study report highlights stories of four systems (Alabama, AppleTree, Maine, and Washington) that are uniquely implementing instructional coaching at scale, emphasizing practices that align with the Reimagining Instructional Coaching Framework.
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Supun Samarasekera: The future of video analytics and AI for mixed reality applications
Supun Samarasekera, senior technical director for the Center for Vision Technologies, discusses the changing landscape of AI and video analytics for mixed reality applications.
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Pat Lincoln: Improving our collective ability to solve problems
As the president of SRI’s Information and Computing Sciences division, Patrick Lincoln leads a team that creates forward-thinking technology solutions to our most important challenges.
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Julie Bert: Tiny organisms with climate impact
An SRI researcher investigates a microbe that can harvest rare earth elements while also cleaning up mine tailings.




