Over the past several years, policymakers across the country have enacted and updated policies designed to address safe data use in modern and evolving classrooms; now, changes in teaching practice are happening on an unprecedented scale and pace following the rapid transition to online learning. States will need to move quickly to provide student…

Researchers, policymakers and educators are increasingly focused on the accurate identification, assessment, and referral of English learners (ELs) with disabilities, stemming in part from both the under- and over-identification of ELs for special education services, as compared to non-ELs identified for these services. Appropriate decision making…

The purpose of this study was to determine what is happening in the day-to-day operation of learning and reading disability programs in various school systems and to survey reading personnel's feelings about existing practices and organizational structures. A questionnaire, designed to discover procedures for helping children with reading or…

Materials are presented to assist local school personnel in the adoption of successful programs and services for gifted and talented pupils. Articles offering solutions to problems in, or suggesting ideas and guidelines for, educational programing include the broadening concepts of giftedness, by E. Paul Torrance; justification for special…

This handbook, made possible through a Title V grant from the Connecticut State Department of Education, contains job descriptions for teachers and principals and evaluation instruments which serve as initial exemplary models for the school systems throughout Connecticut seeking to improve their staff evaluation programs. Part I contains a section…

Describes a statewide attempt launched in Connecticut in 198l, designed to improve school effectiveness through a systematic process using valid assessment methods founded on emerging research and sound practice. Also summarizes findings of the project's first major evaluation. (Author/GC)