Monthly Digest – June 2010

The following content was added to the REL-NEI Website in June:

New Video! 

• What’s New @ REL-NEI – July 2010
  View a homepage video newscast of events and news from REL-NEI.
• Janette Klingner of the University of Colorado at Boulder on Quality Indicators for Evaluating Research (May 2010)
• Glenn “Kwabena” Davis’ Dropout Prevention Song, U.S. Virgin Islands (April 2010)
• REL-NEI Governing Board Members Address the Dropout Problem (April 2010)

Webinars

• Upcoming: What Are States’ Requirements for General Education Teachers Teaching Students with Disabilities? (July 14, 2010)
  In this webinar, REL-NEI researchers will present findings from an upcoming Issues & Answers Report that examines how Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the U.S. Virgin Islands prepare their general education teachers to teach students with disabilities.

Events 

• Archive:  Policy Challenges Conference: Bridging Research and Practice: Multiple Measures of Teacher Effectiveness (June 25, 2010)
  This one-day conference in Marlborough, Mass., brought together state teams from across New England to delve deeply into research and share state efforts to develop policies and programmatic support for the complex challenge of measuring teacher effectiveness. 

Reference Desk Weekly Digest

• What Are the Effects of School Start Time on Student Achievement? (June 4, 2010)
• How Can Professional Development Help Teachers to Effectively Use Data? (June 11, 2010)
• How Effective Are Drug Abuse Prevention Programs? (June 18, 2010)
• What Strategies Exist for Equitably Distributing Effective Teachers? (June 25, 2010)

EdEvidence Newsletter (June 2010)

• Letter from the Director: Making Research Relevant, Useable, and Responsive
• How Do We Identify Learning Disabilities in English Language Learners?
• Teacher Effectiveness a Top Topic in New England
• Managing Budgets and Training Teachers in NY: Q&A with Governing Board Member Raymond Kesper

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