Research is helping guide policymakers and educators on how best to identify and support English learners who may also have learning disabilities.
Lessons learned from the challenges and successes of a five-year initiative to scale up WestEd’s signature approach to improving literacy in secondary schools.
Research that disaggregates data by disability category is building a knowledge base to more effectively target supports for students with disabilities.
The idea that secondary English learners students can master rigorous content quickly and deeply goes against much accepted wisdom in the field. But Aida Walqui and her colleagues have spent more than 15 years developing and helping educators implement an instructional approach with exactly that goal.
The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without a paid-leave policy for parents at or around the birth of a child. WestEd’s J. Ronald Lally says we can — and must — do better.
A WestEd study adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting school climate is an important factor for school success. The study found that schools that substantially outperformed demographically similar schools over a multiyear period had much more positive levels of school climate.