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Brown-Chidsey, Rachel; Steege, Mark W. – Guilford Publications, 2010
This bestselling work provides practitioners with a complete guide to implementing response to intervention (RTI) in schools. The authors are leading experts who explain the main components of RTI--high-quality instruction, frequent assessment, and data-based decision making--and show how to use it to foster positive academic and behavioral…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Intervention, Reprography, Federal Legislation
Brown-Chidsey, Rachel; Steege, Mark W. – Guilford Publications, 2005
Meeting a key need, this is the first comprehensive guide to implementing a schoolwide response to intervention (RTI) program. The book is geared to helping practitioners understand and respond to No Child Left Behind and to the new special education eligibility guidelines outlined in IDEIA 2004. Presented are the theoretical and empirical…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Training, Research Design, Learning Problems
Shavelson, Richard J., Ed.; Towne, Lisa, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2002
Researchers, historians, and philosophers of science have debated the nature of scientific research in education for more than 100 years. Recent enthusiasm for "evidence-based" policy and practice in education now codified in the federal law that authorizes the bulk of elementary and secondary education programs have brought a new sense…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Educational Research, Evidence, Educational Policy
Kauffman, James M., Ed.; Hallahan, Daniel P., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Special education is now an established part of public education in the United States--by law and by custom. However, it is still widely misunderstood and continues to be dogged by controversies related to such things as categorization, grouping, assessment, placement, funding, instruction, and a variety of legal issues. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational History, Educational Research, Research Design