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This report raises a critical question facing educators today: Have efforts to raise student test scores come at the expense of basic supports for student well-being — for example, nutrition and school safety — that motivate and facilitate learning?
This book synthesizes ten years of research, detailing how best to incorporate resiliency research to help young people thrive in school and in their communities.
This book examines how teacher induction systems located within five countries shape the early career learning of beginning teachers.
This summary report, produced by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd, provides data and projections on the teacher shortage in California and the continuing concentration of the state's underprepared teachers in schools serving poor and minority students.
This report, written by Camille Esch, Patrick Shields, and Viki Young for the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd, argues that California needs improved coordination of separate agency efforts to link these datasets.
School board associations in four states — California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas — commissioned this broad-based report about K-12 education along La Frontera, the United States/Mexico border, to identify common issues and questions facing the region's school districts.