Educators are faced with many decisions regarding supporting students' writing. While writing achievement and curriculum-based measure scores provide numbers that are important for high-stakes decisions like determining special education eligibility, they do not provide educators with information on a student's explicit instruction needs. Written…

This report presents findings from the first American Pre-K Teacher Survey, a nationally representative survey of pre-kindergarten (pre-K) teachers in public schools across the United States. The authors focus on structural characteristics of pre-K programs, such as the curriculum and assessment materials that pre-K teachers used most frequently…

Parents want to work with their children's teachers to help them succeed in school. "What Brain Research Says about Student Learning" provides parents and teachers the most recent findings in brain research and learning theory in a very approachable way. The reader will see how the child's brain develops, learns, remembers, and creates…