Teacher Looping Improves Student Outcomes

Research on students from Tennessee shows repeat teachers improve student behavior and academic performance in math and reading in grades three through 11. This type of classroom structure, known as teacher looping, is touted as a low-cost way to improve student achievement.
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What We Learned When We Implemented Dyslexia Screening in Missouri: Takeaways for New York

Amanda McCaleb, the Literacy Intervention Specialist for the largest school district in Missouri, details key lessons to be learned from that state's rollout of universal dyslexia screening.
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What Medications Are Used in Medication-Assisted Treatment?

With the growing evidence suggesting its effectiveness, medication-assisted treatment is now gradually embraced by many. However, medication can be used for different purposes (detoxification, treatment), for different durations, and with different results. This analysis aims to help people better understand medication-assisted treatment.
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U.S. Electricity Net Generation and Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 1990-2018

Explore electricity net generation by source, share of renewable electricity, and carbon dioxide emissions per capita for every state in the United States over a 29-year period from 1990 to 2018.
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Deconstructing Mass Shootings: Exploring Opportunities for Intervention

Research on mass public shootings has focused almost exclusively on either the characteristics of offenders or the causes leading to these massacres. In this policy report, we argue that prevention requires us to refocus our attention from why to how mass public shootings happen.
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Judges on the Frontlines: What Courts and the Criminal Justice System Need to Know

The criminal justice system is an important part of the push to curb opioid use. As much as state court judges are doing to address opioids, however, they don’t always have easy access to the information they need to make decisions.
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Déjà Vu AI: What Can We Learn from the Digital Revolution?

At the dawn of the digital revolution, economists questioned whether or not we were entering the next industrial revolution. They forecasted dramatic leaps in our personal productivity, automation of mundane tasks, changes in the workforce, globalization, and self-employment. These are many of the same predictions being made today as artificial intelligence lays on the horizon.
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Our long-term, in-depth examination of the opioid epidemic in rural New York, and how communities are responding.
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Achieving a Complete 2020 Census Count in New York

We detail the challenges New York State is likely to face in the 2020 census, providing a guide for stakeholders to target resources and outreach efforts to ensure that every resident is counted.
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Teacher Looping Improves Student Outcomes

November 21, 2019

Research on students from Tennessee shows repeat teachers improve student behavior and academic performance in math and reading in grades three through 11. This type of classroom structure, known as teacher looping, is touted as a low-cost way to improve student achievement.

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What We Learned When We Implemented Dyslexia Screening in Missouri: Takeaways for New York

November 14, 2019

Guest writer Amanda McCaleb, a literacy intervention specialist in Missouri's largest school district, details key lessons to be learned from that state's rollout of universal dyslexia screening.

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