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	How Do We Identify Learning Disabilities in English Language Learners? (June 2010) About 80 ESL teachers, special education teachers, school psychologists, speech pathologists, district administrators, and other New York educators met on May 25th in New Paltz, N.Y., to learn more about identifying learning disabilities in English language learners (ELLs).
	Managing Budgets and Training Teachers in NY: Q&A with Governing Board Member Raymond Kesper (June 2010) Dr. Raymond Kesper has spent more than 30 years working at the New York State Education Department (NYSED) in policy development, research, and as senior staff to the senior deputy commissioner for elementary, middle, and secondary education. His education career began when he joined the Peace Corps and taught English to elementary school students in the West Pacific Island of Pohnpei.
	REL-NEI Researchers Consult to New York, Maine (June 2010) REL-NEI researchers provide research support on a range of education topics and issues to state education departments across the Northeast and Islands Region. Here are two recent projects.
	Connecting to Practice: REL-NEI Liaisons Take to the Road in 2009! (Jan/Feb 2010) In 2009, REL-NEI state liaisons and researchers participated at more than 40 education-related conferences and meetings across the Northeast and Islands Region, often staffing booths and providing overviews of REL-NEI.
	How Are States Approaching Response to Intervention? (Jan/Feb 2010) A new REL-NEI Issues & Answers Report finds that the six New England states and New York support response to intervention, or RTI, for overall school instructional improvement and for determining special-education eligibility at the local level.
	Low-Performing Schools Report Kicks Off Cross-State Conversation in New York (Nov/Dec 2009) A March 2009 webinar on REL-NEI’s Issues & Answers Report on state supports for low-performing schools led to a cross-state conversation among NYSED and several other state education agencies (SEAs) on models and approaches to district-level intervention.
	REL-NEI Researchers Take Evidence to New York Regents (Sep/Oct 2009) REL-NEI staff provided research support to a New York Board of Regents Work Group charged with examining strategies and policies to improve the recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers working in high-need, urban schools.
	Data on the Minds of REL-NEI Governing Board Members (Jul/Aug 2009) A winter Governing Board meeting in Albany, New York, includes a panel discussion on regional experiences with data-driven decision-making and longitudinal data systems.
	Region Logs On to REL-NEI Dropout Programs Database (May/Jun 2009) Since its February launch, more than 40 state education officials, school superintendents, policy analysts, education researchers, and technical assistance providers have requested access to REL-NEI’s electronic database of dropout prevention policies and programs at nine midsize, high-poverty urban school districts in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.
	Spend Stimulus Funds Wisely — Use the Reference Desk! (May/Jun 2009) The REL-NEI Reference Desk is a free resource for education stakeholders seeking answers. Modeled after a library reference desk, Ask A REL, as it is called, quickly provides responses (typically in one to two weeks) to research-related education questions. Want to know what the research says about effective teaching training, or how states are developing their data systems? The Reference Desk can point you toward evidence-based journal articles, policy studies, and organizations that can inform your decision-making.
	Webinar Links Teacher Quality and Retention Research to Regional Needs (Jan/Feb 2009) A December 2008 webinar presents findings from a REL-NEI Issues & Answers Report that analyzes the distribution of highly qualified teachers (HQTs) in rural, urban, and suburban New York school districts. The report shows that New York rural schools have a considerably higher percentage of HQTs than do New York City schools.
	NY, MA Studies Track Performance Among Fourth-Graders with Disabilities (Nov/Dec 2008) Two REL-NEI Issues & Answers Reports analyzing the performance of fourth-graders with disabilities on statewide math assessments in New York and Massachusetts use similar methods to examine publicly available test data, but the reports’ authors caution against comparing the two.
	Math and Students with Disabilities: Support Time, Teacher Teamwork Highlighted (Nov/Dec 2008) A REL-NEI Issues & Answers Report finds that six schools perceived by education leaders as exemplary in math teaching and learning—including three in New York—use both math-specific interventions, such as additional math support time, and schoolwide practices, such as teacher collaboration, to enhance math education for students with disabilities.
	Harouna Ba: Pinning Down New York Education Issues (Nov/Dec 2008) Describing his role as New York liaison for REL Northeast and Islands, Harouna Ba speaks with energy about the enormity of his task: “I don’t shy away from big challenges that might help the system, help the kids,” he says.
	“Struggling Reader” Report Looks at Literacy Interventions in Four Urban Districts (Jul/Aug 2008) The report, titled “A Description of Foundation Skills Interventions for Struggling Middle-Grade Readers in Four Urban Northeast and Islands Region School Districts,” concluded that all four districts were in the beginning stages of both testing and providing foundation skills programs. The type of diagnostic assessment that was used in each district varied, as did the number of students that were included in each district’s intervention program. If programs existed, progress monitoring was built in.