Allan Porowski

This infographic provides an overview of the Evidence and Gap Map (EGM) developed by REL Pacific in partnership with the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Public School System to support the selection of effective K–3 reading interventions. It provides an excerpt of the EGM and explains how to interpret improvement indices, ESSA evidence tiers, and literacy domains.

In response to a request from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Public School System (PSS), REL Pacific conducted a systematic review of Tier 2 literacy interventions for students in grades K-3. In this review, a Tier 2 literacy intervention is defined as a supplemental instructional program delivered to students who require support in addition to the Tier 1 core reading program. REL Pacific identified 267 studies on Tier 2 literacy interventions, and 20 of these studies...

This study provides an overview of similarities and differences in how states and state education agencies define alternative education, as well as which states have alternative education standards and what those standards entail. The study reviewed information on alternative education definitions and programs from state and federal websites and from local school system websites in Maryland. Findings show that 43 states and the District of Columbia have formal definitions of alternative educa...

In the United States exclusionary discipline (suspension and expulsion) is commonly used to remove disruptive students from the classroom or school. While any disciplinary action should be applied fairly and consistently to all groups, for more than 35 years the research literature has highlighted a discipline gap between racial/ethnic minority students and White students. Recently, the literature has identified a gap in the rates of exclusionary discipline between students in special educati...