Sarah Ryan

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Supporting Students, Families, and Schools Toward Academic Recovery

This blog post discusses efforts underway to support students, families, and educators in the process of post-pandemic healing and recovery and the importance of focusing on students' and families' assets.
Date published:
Jan 01, 2023
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Looking Back and Preparing for the Road Ahead

I was delighted to join REL Northeast & Islands in June to lead our applied research initiatives. Since that time, I have had the opportunity to reflect on the robust body of work our researchers and technical support experts engaged in over this past year in partnership with stakeholders from across the region. It is an understatement to say that our 10 research alliances and partnerships like all of you, have been navigating uncharted territory. Yet, in looking back on the critical work we ...
Date published:
Sep 02, 2021

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Exploring District-Level Expenditure-to-Performance Ratios

State education budgets have shrunk since the economic recession of 2007-09. During the 2012-13 school year 35 states provided less funding for education than they had five years earlier (Leachman, Albares, Masterson, & Wallace, 2016; Levin et al., 2012; Oliff, Mai, & Leachman, 2012). As a result, districts across the country are seeking ways to increase their efficiency by using fewer resources while maintaining or even improving education outcomes. This study examines the expenditure-to-per...
Mar 01, 2017
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A Guide to Calculating District Expenditure-to-Performance Ratios Using Publicly Available Data

Districts across the nation are seeking ways to increase efficiency by maintaining, if not improving, educational outcomes using fewer resources. One measure that is sometimes used as a proxy for school district efficiency is an expenditure-to-performance ratio, for example a ratio of per pupil expenditures to student academic performance. This guide shows states and districts how to use publicly available data about district-level expenditures and student academic performance to create six e...
Feb 01, 2017
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Guide to the Competency-based Learning Survey for Students

Many states are moving away from approaches that base student advancement on credits and "seat time" toward competency-based learning approaches that provide schools with the flexibility to link a student's advancement to mastery of content. Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, in partnership with the Northeast College and Career Readiness Research Alliance, has developed a new survey--the Competency-based Learning Survey for Students--to help high schools and school districts...
Aug 01, 2016