REL West Research Digest: December 2011
Description
This issue of the REL West Research Digest highlights evaluation’s key role in developing school leaders.
Also in this issue:
- REL West regional alliances focused on data-based decision making
- Utah’s decision to push forward its dropout prevention agenda
- An overview of select fast-response and technical assistance projects and reports
Published throughout the year, each REL West Research Digest contains information about research being conducted by the Regional Educational Laboratory West (REL West) at WestEd.
Additional information from REL West is available at http://relwest.wested.org.
Information about the REL system and other REL publications can be found at the national Regional Educational Laboratory Program website.
Resource Details
Product Information
Copyright: 2011Format: PDF
Pages: 4
Publisher: WestEd
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