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NECC Staffer Describes New Hampshire Work in New Handbook

"Working Sma-tah, Not Ha-dah in New Hampshire" highlights the New England Comprehensive Center's work with the New Hampshire Department of Education to strengthen its statewide system of support. Written by Adam Tanney, a Research Associate at RMC Research Corporation and NECC staff member, the story appears as a chapter in the Center on Innovation and Improvement's Handbook for Statewide Systems of Support.
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NECC Calls for Concerted Regional Effort

PORTSMOUTH, NH: "Talking About a Revolution: Looking to the Past to Save Our Future" by Charles Desmond, a collaborator on the NECC's work on Advancing Student Literacy and Numeracy, and NECC staffer Elizabeth Goldman appears in the Spring 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Higher Education. In the article, Desmond and Goldman call on New England's land-grant universities to lead the region in reinventing education for a diverse student body in a globally competitive world.

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[provided with permission from The New England Journal of Higher Education]

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Principals' Network to Create Research-Based Literacy Tools for School Improvement

PORTSMOUTH, NH: In one of the first such ventures of its kind, the NECC's Principals' Literacy Leadership Network is engaging principals and state and district education leaders in creating a tool that will allow secondary school principals to design and evaluate literacy programs in their schools.
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REL Northeast and Islands Releases First Report

NEWTON, MA: The REL Northeast and Islands has released the first of its "Fast Response" studies funded by the U.S. Institute of Education Sciences. The Impact of Benchmark Assessments Aligned to State Standards on Student Achievement was undertaken by this Regional Educational Laboratory in response to strong regional interest in benchmark and formative assessments and the lack of independent studies of their effect.
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National Center on Response to Intervention Opens

WASHINGTON, DC: The newly created National Center on Response to Intervention provides technical assistance and dissemination about proven and promising models for Response to Intervention (RTI) and Early Intervening Services (EIS) to state and local educators, families, and others. Funded by a five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education office of special education programs, the Center's work encompasses knowledge production through independent, technical review of RTI models and components; implementation supports through training and follow-up support; information dissemination through communities of practice; and formative assessment through evaluations of the quality, implementation, impact, and cost effectiveness of the services offered.
To learn more, visit www.rti4success.org >

 

State news

Connecticut   www.state.ct.us/sde/

Massachusetts   www.doe.mass.edu/news.asp

Maine   www.maine.gov/education/news.htm

New Hampshire   www.ed.state.nh.us/education/news.htm

Rhode Island   http://www.ride.ri.gov/Headlines.aspx

Vermont   www.state.vt.us/educ/new/html/mainnew.html

NCLB news

New and archived NCLB news from the U.S. Department of Education
www.ed.gov/nclb/

 

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