Comprehensive, authoritative, and designed for practical utility, this handbook presents evidence-based approaches for helping struggling readers and those at risk for literacy difficulties or delays. Leading experts explain how current research on all aspects of literacy transl…
This user-friendly volume provides evidence-based tools for meeting the needs of the approximately 15% of k-6 students who would benefit from more support than is universally offered to all students but do not require intensive, individualized intervention. With a unique focus o…
After years of applying more pressure on schools to raise achievement levels for all students, particularly those who underperform their mainstream peers, the achievement gap today remains virtually unchanged. But the reality is that there's proof that, under the right condition…
This guide has helped put executive skills on the map for school-based clinicians and educators. The book explains how these critical cognitive processes develop and why they play such a key role in children's behavior and school performance. Provided are step-by-step guidelines…
How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political and social power? Putting forward a robust "science of performance" model of school change based on a speci…
"Black Men in College" provides vital information about how to effectively support, retain, and graduate Black male undergraduates. This edited collection centers on the notion that Black male collegians are not a homogenous group; rather, they are representative of rarely ackno…
This dissertation offers a collection of works examining the measurement and use of treatment integrity in the context of tiered systems, with a particular focus on comprehensive, integrated, three-tiered (Ci3T) models of prevention. We begin with a history of treatment integrit…
The purpose of this action research study was to measure the impact of a social and emotional learning program on the academic and behavior of at-risk ninth-grade students. To address the purpose of this action research study, the following research questions guided this inquiry…
Equity in educational outcomes, particularly reading, is an important policy issue in countries around the world. This dissertation used data from PIRLS 2006 to explore an approach to measuring equity in reading achievement internationally at the fourth grade. Relative risk rati…