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REL Northeast & Islands: Putting Research into Action
The Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands translates research to practice in partnership with policymakers and practitioners in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Vermont.
The ten Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) work in partnership to conduct applied research and trainings with a mission of supporting a more evidence-based education system. Learn more about the REL Northeast & Islands region.
What's New at REL Northeast & Islands
Setting Up for Success: Preparing High School Students for College-level Math
This webinar presented research on efforts to reduce rates of student placement in college remedial mathematics. » More info
This webinar presented research-based language models for dual language learners in pre-kindergarten (preK), with a particular focus on models that incorporate the use of home languages. » More info
Latest from the REL Northeast & Islands Blog
Partnership Project Supports New Data Coaches in Puerto Rico
We partnered with the Puerto Rico Department of Education to provide training for new data coaches hired to work with school leaders and teachers to help build their capacity to analyze and use their own classroom data to plan lessons and differentiate instruction.
How Can We Better Translate Education Research into Action?
Despite the growth in the number of education researcher-practitioner collaborations, gaps in knowledge remain about how to translate research into action effectively.
Research Study Examines Relationship Between Teacher Induction Program and Teacher Retention
Teacher turnover is a problem across the United States, with about 17 percent of teachers leaving within the first five years in the profession. This turnover rate costs states and districts money and time, and negatively affects student outcomes.
Featured Video
REL Northeast & Islands developed a series of three complementary guides that describe the survey research process educators can use to create, administer, and analyze their own surveys, in order to have data they need to inform policy and pedagogical decisions.
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Ask a REL
Ask A REL is a collaborative reference desk service provided by the ten Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) and functions much in the same way as a technical reference library.
Works in Progress
Learn more about the research projects currently underway.
Featured Publication
A guide to calculating district expenditure-to-performance ratios using publicly available data
This guide shows states and districts how to use publicly available data about district-level expenditures and student academic performance to create six expenditure-to-performance ratios, a measure that is sometimes used as a proxy for school district efficiency. To learn more, see this recent blog post.
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Identifying English Learners with Disabilities (656 KB)
Learn more about how the REL Northeast & Islands is collaborating with stakeholders to meet the diverse needs of English Learners.