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This brief was developed by SEDL's Texas Comprehensive Center to answer the question, "What strategies can be implemented to aid students and their parents in the transition from eighth grade into high school?" The transition from eighth grade to high school results in a higher drop-out rate and more grade retentions than any other grade. However, when districts and schools develop and implement a sound transition program, the outcomes for ninth graders are improved.

A Practitioner's Guide: Building and Managing Quality Afterschool Programs is designed to share with you the practices that can help you cover it all—great programming, terrific staff, positive relationships, and plenty of resources to lead and sustain successful afterschool programs.

Designed for educators who are implementing Title I, Part A parental involvement provisions, this toolkit includes detailed explanations of the provisions and 33 tools to help states, districts, and schools meet the requirements.

This FOCUS, describes the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange’s (CIRRIE) bibliographic database of International Rehabilitation Research. The database is useful for conducting systematic reviews. It includes research conducted in most geographic regions of the world as well as citations to articles originally published in languages other than English.

In 2003, SEDL developed the Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI) for the National Staff Development Council (NSDC), based on the NSDC's standards which reflect the theoretical foundations and promising practices in school-based professional development literature. This research brief summarizes SEDL's research and development on the SAI to date, with specific emphasis on its psychometric properties, and presents the latest evidence on how teacher professional development contributes to student achievement.

The Library of Knowledge Translation Resources is designed to provide information to researchers and interested members of the public about a wide spectrum of knowledge translation and evidence-based resources.

This paper was produced by SEDL’s Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) in response to the request, “What are states in the southeastern region using as assessment tools for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) eighth-grade technology literacy?” The SECC conducted a comparative study of 16 states to address the question.

This paper was produced by SEDL’s Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) in response to a request for information about how many states are allowing high school students who complete the General Educational Development (GED) tests to receive a high school diploma instead of a GED, thereby increasing the high school graduation rates.

In 2007, a state department of education (SDE) served by the Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) requested information regarding state policies on RtI. SECC staff consulted the scholarly literature on education policy in the United States in order to provide a backdrop for discussion of state policies focused on RtI. Staff also reviewed the resources identified in the previous rapid response on this issue and conducted searches of SDE Web sites for revised or additional information regarding formal RtI policy.

In 2007, two state departments of education (SDEs) served by the Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) requested information on monitoring tools or instruments to assess the quality of district/school implementation of response to intervention. This rapid response offers an update to the information previously provided.