“Fundamentally, we have to get away from thinking that ‘we’ know what is better for ‘them’ than they do.” WestEd experts discuss representation, shared ownership, and equity in evaluation.
Dr. Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino, one of the world's leading experts on hate crimes, discusses the nation's history of anti-Asian bias and violence and offers suggestions for combatting it.
The Certificate of Appreciation acknowledges Mandinach’s many contributions to the Special Interest Group in the form of leadership, ongoing support, guidance, and mentorship.
The NextGenScience project at WestEd today announced the addition of seven new members to its Science Peer Review Panel to continue its work evaluating lesson sequences and units designed for the Next Generation Science Standards.
Promising new findings are validating the effectiveness of Healthy U, an innovative, app-based sexual health program that addresses high rates of pregnancy among teens involved with the justice system.
Approximately ten new REL West partnerships are launching in 2022, each of which have a distinct set of short, medium, and long-term goals to achieve measurable educator or student outcomes.
The theme of this year’s conference is “From Reckoning to Racial Justice: Centering Underserved Communities in Research on Educational Effectiveness.”
WestEd is pleased to announce Dr. Marianne Perie is the agency’s new Director of Assessment Research and Innovation. In this role, she will significantly shape the agency’s psychometrics and assessment research, providing deep measurement expertise and drawing on her experience to improve educational equity through high-quality research.
WestEd is pleased to present new findings from a recent randomized controlled trial led by the agency to examine the efficacy of the widely available Amplify Science Middle School (ASMS) curriculum for advancing seventh grade students’ learning in relation to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) performance expectations.