News Briefs

Pierson A. Hodara M. Luke J. (2017, March). Earning college credits in high school: Options, participation, and outcomes for Oregon students (REL 2017-216). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, national Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest. Retrieved from http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs

Zubrzycki J. (2017, March). More students take AP tests—And more are low-income. Education Week, 36(23), 6.

The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program & The Council of Chief State School Officers. (2017). Leading for equity: Opportunities for state education chiefs. Washington, DC.

Brown E. (2016). State policies related to program and curriculum. In Lord E. W. Swanson J. D. (Eds.), A guide to state policies in gifted education, second edition (pp. 71-95). Washington, DC: National Association for Gifted Children.

Gewertz C. (2017). What tests does each state require? An interactive breakdown of states’ 2016-17 testing plans. Retrieved from http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/what-tests-does-each-state-require.html

Lord E. W. Swanson J. D. (Eds.). (2016). A guide to state policies in gifted education, second edition. Washington, DC: National Association for Gifted Children.

Steenbergen-Hu S. Makel M. C. Olszewski-Kubilius P. (2016). What one hundred years of research says about the effects of ability grouping and acceleration on K-12 students’ academic achievement: Findings of two second-order meta-analyses. Review of Educational Research, 86, 849-899. doi:10.3102/0034654316675417