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REL Appalachia

• A Descriptive Study of Enrollment in Supplemental Educational Services in the Four REL Appalachia Region States
• Aligning Career and Technical Education with High-Wage and High-Demand Occupations in Tennessee
• Assessing the Likelihood Virginia Public Schools will Meet the Central Goal of No Child Left Behind: Having Every Student Proficient
• Changes in the Cost of Energy in One State's School Districts
• Estimating College Enrollment Rates for 2008 Virginia Public High School Graduates
• Participation During the First Four Years of Tennessee’s Voluntary Prekindergarten Program
• Preparing to Serve English Language Learner Students: School Districts with Emerging English Language Learner Communities
• Registering Students from Language Backgrounds Other Than English
• Superintendent Turnover in Kentucky
• The Relationship Between Changes in the Percentage of Students Passing and in the Percentage Testing Advanced on State Assessment Tests for Kentucky and Virginia
• West Virginia's Progress Toward Universal Prekindergarten

REL Central

• A Study of the Effectiveness of a School Improvement Intervention (Success in Sight)
• Access to Supplemental Educational Services in the Central Region States
• Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Impact on Elementary School Mathematics in the Central Region: Final Report
• Examining American Indian Perspectives in the Central Region on Parent Involvement in Children's Education
• High School Dropout and Graduation Rates in the Central Region
• High School Standards and Expectations for College and the Workplace
• Preparing Teachers to Teach in Rural Schools
• Student Mobility in Rural and Nonrural Districts in Five Central Region States
• Using Strategy Instruction to Help Struggling High Schoolers Understand What They Read
• What States Can Learn About State Standards and Assessment Systems from No Child Left Behind Documents and Interviews with Central Region Assessment Directors

REL Mid-Atlantic

• A Multisite Cluster Randomized Trial of the Effects of Compass Learning Odyssey Math on the Math Achievement of Selected Grade 4 Students in the Mid-Atlantic Region
• Dropout Prevention Programs in Nine Mid-Atlantic Region School Districts: Additions to a Dropout Prevention Database
• Subgroups and Adequate Yearly Progress in Mid-Atlantic Region Schools
• The Predictive Validity of Selected Benchmark Assessments Used in the Mid-Atlantic Region
• The Students with Disabilities Subgroup and Adequate Yearly Progress in Mid-Atlantic Region Schools
• What English Language Arts, Math, and Science Instructional Materials have Districts in the Mid-Atlantic Region States Adopted?
• What Four States are Doing to Support Local Data-Driven Decision-Making: Policies, Practices, and Programs

REL Midwest

• Calculating the Ability of Within-School Teacher Supply to Meet the Demands of New Requirements: The Example of the Michigan Merit Curriculum
• Examining District Guidance to Schools on Teacher Evaluation Policies in the Midwest Region
• Getting the Evidence for Evidence-Based Initiatives: How the Midwest States Use Data Systems to Improve Education Processes and Outcomes
• Methodologies Used by Midwest Region States for Studying Teacher Supply and Demand
• New Data Needed: Improving Survey Research On Two-Year College Experiences
• Parent Involvement and Extended Learning Activities in School Improvement Plans in the Midwest Region
• Snapshots of Indiana's Full-Day Kindergarten Programs Before and After the State's Funding Increase for the Program
• State Policies and Procedures on Response to Intervention in the Midwest Region
• State Policies on Teacher Evaluation Practices in the Midwest Region

REL Northeast & Islands

• A Description of Foundation Skills Interventions for Struggling Middle-grade Readers in Four Urban Northeast and Islands Region School Districts
• A Descriptive Analysis of State-Supported Formative Assessment Initiatives in New York and Vermont
• A Second Follow-up Year for Measuring how Benchmark Assessments Affect Student Achievement
• Access to Algebra I: The Effects of Online Mathematics for Grade 8 Students
• An Analysis of State Data on the Distribution of Teaching Assignments Filled by Highly Qualified Teachers in New York Schools
• Analyzing Performance by Hispanic High School Students on the Massachusetts State Assessment
• Developing the "Compendium of Strategies to Reduce Teacher Turnover in the Northeast and Islands Region": a Companion to the Database
• Do States Have Certification Requirements for Preparing General Education Teachers to Teach Students with Disabilities? Experience In the Northeast and Islands Region
• Features of State Response to Intervention Initiatives in Northeast and Islands Region States
• Five States' Efforts to Improve Adolescent Literacy
• Gender Gaps in Assessment Outcomes in Vermont and the United States
• How Eight State Education Agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region Identify and Support Low–Performing Schools and Districts
• How State Education Agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region Support Data-Driven Decision Making in Districts and Schools
• How Student and School Characteristics are Associated with Performance on the Maine High School Assessment
• Impact of the Thinking Reader Software Program on Grade 6 Reading Vocabulary, Comprehension, Strategies, and Motivation
• Math Education Practices for Students with Disabilities and Other Struggling Learners: Case Studies of Six Schools in Two Northeast and Islands Region States
• Measuring How Benchmark Assessments Affect Student Achievement
• New Measures of English Language Proficiency and Their Relationship to Performance on Large-Scale Content Assessments
• Parent Involvement Strategies in Urban Middle and High Schools in the Northeast and Islands Region
• Performance Patterns for Students with Disabilities in Grade 4 Mathematics Education in Massachusetts
• Performance Patterns for Students with Disabilities in Grade 4 Mathematics Education in New York State
• Piloting a Searchable Database of Dropout Prevention Programs in Nine Low-Income Urban School Districts in the Northeast and Islands Region
• Processes and Challenges in Identifying Learning Disabilities Among English Language Learner Students in three New York State Districts
• Updating a Searchable Database of Dropout Prevention Programs and Policies in Nine Low-Income Urban School Districts in the Northeast and Islands Region
• What Characteristics of Bullying, Bullying Victims, and Schools are Associated with Increased Reporting of Bullying to School Officials?

REL Northwest

• "Coach" Can Mean Many Things: Five Categories of Literacy Coaches in Reading First
• Achievement Gap Patterns of Grade 8 American Indian and Alaska Native Students in Reading and Mathematics
• An Experimental Study of the Project CRISS Reading Program on Grade 9 Reading Achievement in Rural High Schools
• An Investigation of the Impact of the 6+1 Trait® Writing Model on Grade 5 Student Writing Achievement
• Analysis of the Developmental Functioning of Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education Populations in Oregon
• Analysis of Title IIB Mathematics and Science Partnerships in the Northwest Region
• English Language Proficiency Levels of Limited English Proficient Students in Idaho
• How Northwest Region States Are Responding To Schools In Need of Improvement
• How Well Prepared and Supported are New Teachers? Results for the Northwest Region from the 2003/04 Schools and Staffing Survey
• Indian Education Policies in Five Northwest Region States
• Models of Response to Intervention in the Northwest Region States
• New and Experienced Teachers in a School Reform Initiative: The Example of Reading First
• Parent Involvement Activities in School Improvement Plans in the Northwest Region
• Student-Reported Overt and Relational Aggression and Victimization in Grades 3–8
• Supplemental Educational Services and Implementation Challenges in the Northwest Region States
• What are the Characteristics, Qualifications, Roles, and Functions of School Support Teams? An Examination of Survey Results for Four Northwest Region States

REL Pacific

• A Status Report on Middle School Mathematics Assessment and Student Achievement in the Pacific Region
• Comparing the Achievement Patterns of Native Hawaiian and Non-Native Hawaiian Grade 8 Students in Reading and Math
• English Language Proficiency Assessment in the Pacific Region
• Nutrition and Physical Education Policy and Practice in the Pacific Region
• Preparing and Licensing High Quality Teachers in Pacific Region Jurisdictions
• The Status of Large-Scale Assessment in the Pacific Region
• The Status of the Preparation and Hiring of School Principals in the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Region

REL Southeast

• A Review Of Methods and Instruments Used In State and Local School Readiness Evaluations
• Characteristics of Career Academies in 12 Florida School Districts
• Effectiveness of a Program to Accelerate Vocabulary Development in Kindergarten (VOCAB): First Grade Follow-up Impact Report and Exploratory Analyses of Kindergarten Impacts
• Evidence-Based Decisionmaking: Assessing Reading Across the Curriculum Interventions
• Levers For Change: Southeast Region State Initiatives To Improve High Schools
• Measuring Student Engagement in Upper Elementary through High School: A Description of 21 Instruments
• Plans to Adopt and Implement Common Core State Standards in the Southeast Region States
• Preparing Elementary School Teachers in the Southeast Region to Work with Students with Disabilities
• Reducing Stereotype Threat in Classrooms: A Review of Social-Psychological Intervention Studies on Improving the Achievement of Black Students
• Replication of a Career Academy Model: The Georgia Central Educational Center and Four Replication Sites
• State Policies and Procedures and Selected Local Implementation Practices in Response to Intervention in the Six Southeast Region States
• The Effectiveness of a Program to Accelerate Vocabulary Development in Kindergarten
• Title III Accountability Policies and Outcomes For K–12: Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives for English Language Learner Students in Southeast Region States

REL Southwest

• A Review of Avoidable Losses: High Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis
• A Systematic Comparison of the American Diploma Project College Readiness Standards with those of the ACT, College Board, and Standards For Success
• Aligning Mathematics Assessment Standards: Arkansas and the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Aligning Mathematics Assessment Standards: Louisiana and the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Aligning Mathematics Assessment Standards: New Mexico and the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Aligning Mathematics Assessment Standards: Oklahoma and the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Aligning Mathematics Assessment Standards: Texas and the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Aligning Science Assessment Standards: Louisiana and the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Aligning Science Assessment Standards: New Mexico and the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Aligning Science Assessment Standards: Oklahoma and the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Aligning Science Assessment Standards: Texas and the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Aligning Science Standards: Arkansas and the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
• Alternate Assessments for Special Education Students in the Southwest Region States
• Applying an On Track Indicator for High School Graduation: Adapting the Consortium on Chicago School Research Indicator for Five Texas Districts
• Are Texas' English Language Arts and Reading Standards College Ready?
• Examining Context and Challenges in Measuring Investment in Professional Development: A Case Study of Six School Districts in the Southwest Region
• Formative Assessment Policies, Programs, and Practices in the Southwest Region
• How Prepared are Students for College-Level Reading? Applying a Lexile-Based Approach
• How Prepared Are Subgroups of Texas Students for College-Level Reading?
• How the Government Defines Rural has Implications for Education Policies and Practices
• La Frontera: Student Achievement In Texas Border and Nonborder Districts
• Reviewing the Evidence On How Teacher Professional Development Affects Student Achievement
• The Impact of Collaborative Strategic Reading on the Reading Comprehension of Grade 5 Students in Linguistically Diverse Schools

REL West

• A Multistate Review of Professional Teaching Standards
• Accommodations for English Language Learner Students: The Effect of Linguistic Modification of Math Test Item Sets
• Achievement Trends of Schools and Students in Arizona’s Title I School Improvement Program
• An Analysis of Utah's K–3 Reading Improvement Program
• Characteristics of Arizona School Districts in Improvement
• Characteristics of California School Districts in Program Improvement
• Characteristics of California School Districts in Program Improvement: 2008 Update
• Comparing Achievement Trends in Reading and Math Across Arizona Public School Student Subgroups
• Course-taking Patterns and Preparation for Postsecondary Education in California's Public University Systems Among Minority Youth
• Do Schools in Rural and Nonrural Districts Allocate Resources Differently? An Analysis of Spending and Staffing Patterns in the West Region States
• Effects of Problem Based Economics on High School Economics Instruction
• Examining Independent Study High Schools in California
• Examining the Links Between Grade 12 Mathematics Coursework and Mathematics Remediation in Nevada Public Colleges and Universities
• Implementation of the Weighted Student Formula Policy in San Francisco: a Descriptive Study of an Equity-Driven, Student-Based Planning and Budgeting Policy
• Measuring Resilience and Youth Development: The Psychometric Properties of the Healthy Kids Survey
• Patterns of Student Mobility Among English Language Learner Students in Arizona Public Schools
• Projected School Administrator Needs through 2017/2018 in California
• School-site Administrators: a California County and Regional Perspective on Labor Market Trends
• The Distribution of Teaching and Learning Resources in California's Middle and High Schools
• The Reenrollment of High School Dropouts in a Large, Urban School District
• The Relationship Between English Proficiency and Content Knowledge for English Language Learner Students in Grades 10 And 11 in Utah
• The Status of State-level Response to Intervention Policies and Procedures in the West Region States and Five Other States
• Training Early Intervention Assistants in California's Community Colleges
• Trends in California Teacher Demand: A County and Regional Perspective
• Updated Multistate Review of Professional Teaching Standards
• Where Do English Language Learner Students Go to School? Student Distribution By Language Proficiency in Arizona