The share of at-risk students has increased post pandemic requiring a response that matches the magnitude of the impact. High dosage tutoring has been one strategy to address the needs. If implemented effectively and at the proper scale, accelerated academic growth is possible. This brief reviews the collection of research on high dosage tutoring,…

In order to meet the needs of today's knowledge economy, education needs to move beyond the industrial age approach of treating all learners as if they are the same and adopt a learner-centered model of education suitable for the information age. To support this model, a new and transformative technology is needed that focuses on mastery and…

Personalized learning (PL) is spotlighted as a way to transform K-12 educational systems. PL customizes learning pace, instructional methods, and learning content to individual students. As much as PL sounds promising and complex, little guidance is available to educators and policymakers about how to effectively design PL. Five essential features…

In 2012, senior fellow at the Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence Grant Lichtman visited dozens of schools and interviewed hundreds of educators about what they see as the future of learning and of schools and published his findings in "#EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education" (Jossey-Bass, 2014). Since then, he has been…

This study investigated how parents' views on important aspects of integration correlate with parents' actual experiences concerning the integration into mainstream education of their child with special education needs. It was assumed that the degree of discrepancy between perceived importance and corresponding actual experience contributes to the…

Our country has been trying to address the graduation crisis in many ways. We are seeing the impact of the efforts to improve graduation rates over the past twenty years including agreement among states to implement a common cohort-based graduation rate, research-based efforts to improve the transition to 9th grade, increased academic and social…

This interpretive study examines the outcomes of using a social justice service-learning field experience in a social foundations course to help illuminate for teacher candidates the often "invisible" institutionalized inequities of public schools. The findings demonstrate how social justice service-learning can be used as a field…

Reviews the requirements of Individualized Educational Programs (IEPs) for handicapped students. Proposes an ideal counselor role that includes developing, implementing, and evaluating IEPs in the affective domain. Counselors receive suggestions for their involvement in defining annual goals, objectives, devising appropriate educational…

An adjustment period in the transition from group instruction to individualized approaches is suggested as partly contributing to the decline in achievement scores in mathematics. (MP)

Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small group of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike. This book explores in 10 chapters how school leaders can develop responsive, personalized, and differentiated classrooms: (1) "Understanding…

This study examined the instructional contexts of six students with severe disabilities and six peers without disabilities enrolled in the same general education classes. The disabled students were much more likely than typically developing peers to have instruction focused exclusively on them and to receive one-to-one instruction. (Contains…

Proposes a strategy employing challenge, functionalism, high-order learning, and originality to achieve high-quality individualization in course work. Asserts that individualized instruction better prepares students to solve problems, make decisions, and produce original ideas. (MM)

A Canadian program, the Learning Assistance Teacher (LAT), which provides regular classroom teachers with help for their handicapped students, is examined. (PHR)

To serve those students for whom inclusion in regular classrooms is appropriate, collaboration is needed between the science and special education teacher. Science teachers, using a four-step plan, allows themto become contributors to the way in which inclusion will be implemented in their classrooms before decisions are made and become part of…

The type of study proposed by Cronback for studying aptitude-treatment interactions (ATIs) has proved to be disappointing in several respects: it produces ATIs that do not replicate, that are not especially interesting, and that are difficult to use in practice. Glass's meta-analysis methodology, although developed for a different purpose,…