Regional Needs  |  Projects

Mid-Atlantic: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.

Educators in the mid-Atlantic region have very real questions about how to improve student learning. In its first year, REL Mid-Atlantic moved research to practice by focusing on the following needs:

1. Meeting the No Child Left Behind targets for the performance of students in the Black, Hispanic, Limited English Proficiency, and Disabilities sub-groups.
2. Identifying evidence-based interventions for helping students with high-incidence disabilities in inclusive classrooms.
3. Understanding how data-driven decision-making is being used across the region, in both mandated and in optional ways.
4. Understanding the concept of Value-Added Assessment, that identifies not only the progress made by individual students but also the extent to which individual teachers, schools, and districts have contributed to that progress.