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Volume 52 Issue 3, June 2015

Section on Social and Institutional Analysis

  • Megan Hopkins
  • Rebecca Lowenhaupt
  • Tracy M. Sweet
Abstract
In the context of shifting demographics and standards-based reform, school districts in new immigrant destinations are charged with designing infrastructures that support teaching and learning for English learners (ELs) in core academic subjects. This ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published June 23, 2016pp. 408–439
  • Erica Frankenberg
  • Kathryn A. McDermott
  • Elizabeth DeBray
  • Ann Elizabeth Blankenship
Abstract
In 2009, the U.S. Department of Education distributed $2,500,000 via a competitive grant program, the Technical Assistance for Student Assignment Plans, to 11 school districts. The grants and their local effects provide an opportunity to examine the new ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published June 1, 2015pp. 440–474
  • Matthew Ronfeldt
  • Susanna Owens Farmer
  • Kiel McQueen
  • Jason A. Grissom
Abstract
This study draws upon survey and administrative data on over 9,000 teachers in 336 Miami-Dade County public schools over 2 years to investigate the kinds of collaborations that exist in instructional teams across the district and whether these ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published June 1, 2015pp. 475–514

Section on Teaching, Learning, and Human Development

  • Russell Gersten
  • Eric Rolfhus
  • Ben Clarke
  • Lauren E. Decker
  • Chuck Wilkins
  • Joseph Dimino
Abstract
Replication studies are extremely rare in education. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) is a scale-up replication of Fuchs et al., which in a sample of 139 found a statistically significant positive impact for Number Rockets, a small-group ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published June 1, 2015pp. 516–546
  • Henry May
  • Abigail Gray
  • Philip Sirinides
  • Heather Goldsworthy
  • Michael Armijo
  • Cecile Sam
  • Jessica N. Gillespie
  • Namrata Tognatta
Abstract
Reading Recovery (RR) is a short-term, one-to-one intervention designed to help the lowest achieving readers in first grade. This article presents first-year results from the multisite randomized controlled trial (RCT) and implementation study under the $...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published June 1, 2015pp. 547–581
  • Robert J. Stevens
  • Xiaofei Lu
  • David P. Baker
  • Melissa N. Ray
  • Sarah A. Eckert
  • David A. Gamson
Abstract
This research investigated the cognitive demands of reading curricula from 1910 to 2000. We considered both the nature of the text used and the comprehension tasks asked of students in determining the cognitive demands of the curricula. Contrary to the ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published June 1, 2015pp. 582–617