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Language considerations in refugee education: languages for opportunity, connection, and roots
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-10-05)
Currently 26 million people live as refugees, 40% of whom are school-aged. As global policy shifts to include refugee children and young people in education systems in settings of exile, language-in-education emerges as ...
Disrupting the Racialized Power Imbalance Between Home and School: Working Toward a New Mental Model for Family Engagement
(2021-10-15)
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally rearranged the boundaries between home and school. Chelsea Public Schools (CPS), which was fully remote for most of the 20-21 school year, sought to make use of this historic opening to ...
The Complexity of Solving for Racial Inequalities in Advanced Courses: How Collective Processes Can Support the Quest for Equity
(2021-10-15)
College credit bearing coursework, such as Advanced Placement and dual enrollment in college classes, provides a variety of benefits to students who take and complete these courses. Students in advanced classes have access ...
Work that Matters: Activating Student Voice to Codesign Antiracist Schools
(2021-10-15)
The story of High Tech High (HTH) is an extraordinary startup story. After opening a single high school in September 2000, HTH has evolved into an integrated network of 16 charter schools, serving approximately 6,350 ...
Developing Novel Approaches to Analyzing Vocabulary, Syntax, and Discourse Structure in Fifth-to-Eighth Grade Argumentative Writing
(2021-05-14)
This dissertation consists of three studies on adolescents’ argumentative writing. Standards, assessments, and most research in the field of adolescent writing development rely primarily on holistic rubrics to analyze ...
It Takes a Team: An Intentional Approach to Increasing Black and Latino Innovators in the NewSchools Portfolio
(2021-10-15)
Philanthropy plays a significant role in our society, wherein large foundations or individuals with significant wealth identify societal needs and use their financial power to address matters they deem important. Philanthropists ...
A Foundation of Trust: Building Bridges Across the District to Support School Leaders in Boston Public Schools
(2021-10-15)
As home to the oldest elementary and high schools in the United States, Boston has always been one step ahead of the rest of the country in education policy. Amid the calamity, strife and uncertainty of 2020, Boston Public ...
Validation Methods for Aggregate-Level Test Scale Linking: A Rejoinder
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2021-03-15)
In Reardon, Kalogrides, and Ho (2021), we developed precision-adjusted random effects models to estimate aggregate-level linking error, for populations and subpopulations, for averages and progress over time. We are grateful ...
Improving reading comprehension, science domain knowledge, and reading engagement through a first-grade content literacy intervention.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2021-01)
This study investigated the effectiveness of the Model of Reading Engagement (MORE), a content literacy intervention, on first graders’ science domain knowledge, reading engagement, and reading comprehension. The MORE ...
Commentary: The Questions We Should Be Asking About Socially Responsible College Admission Testing
(Wiley, 2021-07-16)
While we agree with Koljatic et al. (2021) that the college admission testing industry can and should ensure their products promote educational equity, we do not believe the corporate social responsibility framework for ...