There has been a long-standing debate over the best way to educate students who come to school speaking a language other than English. Many programs have been used to meet these students' needs and one of them, Two-Way/Dual Immersion (TW/DI), is the f . . .

This project was intended to educate general educators about special education and is an inservice plan for teachers to experience as a half-day informational training. The general educators learn about the different categories of disabilities, progra . . .

This study investigated how teachers might make better use of student thinking to design instructional practices that challenge students' misconceptions in ways that create cognitive conflict and growth in understanding. The primary research questions . . .

Special education law continues to put emphasis on developing appropriate transition plans that provide effective instruction in the areas of transitioning students in to adulthood. As a result, there is a growing need to analyze current transition pr . . .

Governor Pete Wilson signed the California Class Size Reduction (CSR) Initiative into law on July 15, 1996. CSR reduced the class size in California's kindergarten through third grade classrooms to 20 students in hopes of improving student test scores . . .

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of two different eighth-grade algebra support programs. Algebra Topics is a year-long elective math course in which students enroll in addition to their eighth grade algebra course. The Algeb . . .

The purpose of this project was to identify the effects of collaboration with a general education teacher and a special education teacher to include sixth grade students with cognitive disabilities in the Social Studies curriculum. One goal was to dis . . .

This project, entitled "Standards-Based Intervention: Using a Standards-Based SelfDirected Project to Reduce Problem Behaviors of Students with Emotional and Behavior Disorders," was conducted with seven 7th and 8th grade students with who were eligib . . .

African American students consistently lag behind their Asian, Hispanic and white counterparts in multiple measures of academic achievement. Since the granting of the first charter in 2001, African American students have enrolled in charter schools na . . .

The purpose of the study was to define parent participation among Latino parents of one Southern Riverside County elementary school. The researcher used a maximal variation sampling for this study. The objective of the study was not to oversimplify a . . .