How Do I Write…? Scaffolding Preschoolers' Early Writing Skills | Sonia Q. Cabell
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Sonia Q. Cabell, Laura S. Tortorelli, and Hope K. Gerder discuss how providing preschoolers with rich writing experiences can help to lay a foundation for their later reading and writing success.
Adolescent Literacy Tips for Screening Assessment
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Rebecca and Keisey are learning how to create infographics. In this example, they provide guidance on selecting and implementing screeners and formative assessments to support adolescent literacy.
SES and Response to Treatment: A Quantile Regression Approach
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Cynthia is learning how to create academic posters. In this example, she explores the estimated associations between socioeconomic status and the distribution of intervention responses using the quantile regression approach.
Exploring Teachers’ Influence on Student Success in an Online Biology Course
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The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic has turned a spotlight on K–12 virtual-space learning. This model attempts to directly replicate in the virtual school space many of the teacher–student interactions that occur in the traditional school space.
Beating the odds: Finding schools exceeding achievement expectations with high-risk students
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This study used longitudinal data from the FL DOE on grade 3 public school students for the academic years 2010/11–2012/13 to determine which schools are exceeding student achievement expectations.
Development and examination of an alternative school performance index in South Carolina
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The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which the measures that make up each of the three separate accountability indices of school performance in South Carolina could be used to create an overall, reliable index of school perform
The Hidden Factor of Low Performance
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In this recorded webinar, Dr. Robert Balfanz from John Hopkins University presents work on the often overlooked prevalence of chronic absenteeism in low-performing schools and the role of chronic absenteeism in undermining school reform efforts.
The characteristics and education outcomes of American Indian students in grades 6–12 in North Carolina
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This study compared American Indian students in grades 6–12 in NC to all other students in the same grades both within the same schools and statewide on student demographics, school characteristics, and education
Identifying South Carolina charter schools that are “beating the odds
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The purpose of this report was to determine which South Carolina charter schools performed better than could be predicted, considering demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.

