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Senate Report Hints at a Definition for What Works

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Language buried in a report on a Senate appropriations bill may provide a glimpse of the bar Congress will set for judging the effectiveness of school improvement interventions in the next iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

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#1 by nitajo posted ago

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Under i3-style school improvement criteria, administrators looking to offer proof for a mathematics tutoring program in their school improvement plan would have to show, using evidence that met the “strong” or “moderate” bar laid out in i3, that the program significantly improved the performance of students like those being targeted in the district improvement plan.

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#2 by nitajo posted ago

+3 apples

Educators have strong beliefs about what is effective, without research, and it’s often a situation of people finding research to justify your decisions rather than being guided by the research. -- Steve Fleischman

Research, research, research ....

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