All Kinds of Minds offers information to
help students who struggle with learning measurably improve their
success in school and life
http://www.allkindsofminds.org
Center
on Accelerating Student Learning (CASL) is designed to accelerate
learning for students with disabilities in the early grades and
thereby to provide a solid foundation for strong achievement in
the intermediate grades and beyond.
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/CASL/
Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement
(CIERA) is a national center for research on early reading.
http://www.ciera.org/
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
supports and promotes a reoriented national preparedness to foster
the development and the adjustment of children with or at risk of
developing serious emotional disturbance.
http://www.air.org/cecp/
Current Practice Alerts series is a joint
initiative sponsored by two divisions of the Council for Exceptional
Children-the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) and the Division
for Research (DR). Alerts provide timely and informed judgments
regarding professional practices in the field. http://teachingld.org/ld_resources/alerts/default.htm
ERIC/OSEP
Special Project tracks and disseminates federally funded
special education research for practitioners through various publications
and conferences. Publications include Research
Connections,a biannual review of OSEP-sponsored research on
topics in special education, Newsbriefs,
which summarize some of the most recent research from OSEP, Topical
Briefs, short publications that are intended to increase awareness
and understanding of specific subjects, and special public awareness
campaigns such as Learning
to Read, Reading to Learn.
http://ericec.org/osep-sp.html
Institute for Academic Access (IAA) is a
collaborative project uniting researchers from the University of
Kansas and the University of Oregon in an effort to dramatically
improve the success of high school students with disabilities.
http://www.academicaccess.org/
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) –
replaces the former Office of Educational Research and Improvement,
which had formerly been responsible for education research and statistics
and reflects the intent of the President and Congress to advance
the field of education research, making it more rigorous in support
of evidence-based education.
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/index.html
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
provides national leadership in the participation of students with
disabilities in national and state assessments, standards-setting
efforts, and graduation requirements.
http://education.umn.edu/NCEO/
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities
engages in research, develops recommendations, and provides training
to help administrators, teachers, parents, and policy makers address
the complex issues surrounding the proper identification of students
with learning disabilities who need special education services.
http://www.nrcld.org/
TeachingLD is a service of the Division
for Learning Disabilities (DLD) of the Council for Exceptional Children.
http://teachingld.org/
What Works
Clearinghouse (WWC) was established in 2002 by the U.S.
Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences
to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public
with a central, independent, and trusted source of scientific evidence
of what works in education.
http://www.w-w-c.org/
|