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WestEd's Gallagher Helping Massachusetts Evaluate Assessments 7 Aug 2013 | 05:37 am
Under the direction of principal investigator Carole Gallagher, WestEd is partnering with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to identify and evaluate a range of assessm...
Growing Into Equity: Professional Learning and Personalization in High-Achieving Schools 1 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
What makes a Title I school high achieving? Professional learning and leadership that support personalized instruction makes the difference, as captured in the groundbreaking research of authors Sonia...
A Leader's Guide to Mathematics Curriculum Topic Study 1 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
Designed for mathematics leaders, this guide provides a robust set of professional development materials to strengthen mathematics programs, enhance teachers' content knowledge, and improve mathematic...
The Culturally Proficient School: An Implementation Guide for School Leaders, 2nd Edition 1 Aug 2013 | 10:13 pm
The Culturally Proficient School opened new dialogue about diversity and cultural dignity that had an immediate impact on educators, becoming the go-to resource for ideas about how to serve all studen...
WestEd 2012 Year-In-Review 31 Jul 2013 | 03:48 am
The WestEd Year-In-Review describes our agency's broad scope of work in the year 2012. It includes brief highlights of our accomplishments and resources. Produced in the first half of each year, the ...
Beyond Scared Straight: Still on the Air, Still Not Helping Kids 30 Jul 2013 | 06:46 am
The "Beyond Scared Straight" TV series begins another season this week, despite any evidence that the program helps keep youth out of criminal activity and prison. The Scared Straight program feature...
Beyond the Workshop: Interactive Online Learning for Charter School Teachers 30 Jul 2013 | 02:36 am
Goals of the Service The Beyond The Workshop team at WestEd offers high-quality online professional development courses for charter school teachers teaching grades K-12 in reading comprehension and m...
Transitions from High School to College 26 Jul 2013 | 03:07 am
The vast majority of high school students aspire to some kind of postsecondary education, yet far too many of them enter college without the basic content knowledge, skills, or habits of mind they nee...
WestEd's Jaeger Co-Authors Article on Transition to College 20 Jul 2013 | 06:16 am
How prepared for college are high school graduates in the United States? WestEd's Laura Jaeger recently co-authored an article examining exactly this question. As stated in the article, according to ...
California Healthy Kids Survey Supports Anti-Bullying Efforts 2 Jul 2013 | 11:03 pm
The U.S. Department of Education is proposing that schools collect data about anti-gay bullying. The California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS), developed by WestEd for the California Department of Educati...
