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Developing the "Compendium of Strategies to Reduce Teacher Turnover in the Northeast and Islands Region": a companion to the database (Nov 3)
This report provides state-, regional-, and district-level decision makers in the Northeast and Islands Region with a description of the Compendium of Strategies to Reduce Teacher Turnover in the Northeast and Islands Region, a searchable database of selected profiles of retention strategies implemented in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont. » more info

NCES just released the 2006-07 Nonfiscal CCD Local Education Agency Data Files (Oct 29)
The data files provide a listing of all agencies providing free public elementary and secondary education in the United States and its jurisdictions, along with basic descriptive statistical information on each agency listed. » more info

Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the First Year of a Randomized Controlled Study (Oct 28)
The report, Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the First Year of a Randomized Controlled Study, presents implementation and impact findings after one year of induction services. » more info

WWC Releases New Middle School Math Report (Oct 21)
The latest intervention report looks at studies of MathThematics, a curriculum for grades 6 through 8 that combines activity-based, discovery learning with direct instruction. » more info

Data Products From PEELS: CD-ROM Data Set Available for Waves 1-4 (Aug 20)
NCSER has released a CD-ROM that contains documentation, an electronic codebook, and restricted-use data files for the first, second, third, and fourth waves of data collection for the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study. » more info

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The Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (PDF 166 KB) established the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) within the U.S. Department of Education. IES brings rigorous and relevant research, evaluation and statistics to our nation's education system. Grover J. (Russ) Whitehurst was appointed as the first Director of IES in November 2002.

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