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CRL researcher wins grant to evaluate health insurance option
Monday, April 26, 2010
Dr. Jean Hall, an associate research professor at the KU Center for Research on Learning Division of Adult Studies, has been awarded a grant from The Commonwealth Fund to evaluate high-risk pools as a health insurance option for people with preexisting conditions. This study is part of The Commonwealth Fund’s Affordable Health Insurance program.
New publication delves into CLC®
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Don Deshler and Jean Schumaker discuss how to integrate research-based interventions into a schoolwide framework for improving academic performance of secondary students in a new book published by the National Association of School Psychologists. They draw extensively on Strategic Instruction Model® and Content Literacy Continuum® research and summarize several SIM studies.
Complete citation:
Schumaker, J.B., & Deshler, D.D. (2010). Using a tiered intervention model in secondary schools to improve academic outcomes in subject-area courses. In Interventions for achievement and behavior problems in a three-tier model including RTI (pp. 609-632). Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists.
Project Profile: Technology Rich Classrooms
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Click to read a new profile about the Technology Rich Classrooms project at the KU Center for Research on Learning.
CRL in the news
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
An April 3, 2010, article in the Lawrence Journal-World features the KU special education department. The article lists, among other strengths, the department’s “great faculty,” including CRL’s Don Deshler.
Soaring to New Heights nominated for Innovations Award
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Soaring to New Heights, a semester-long course that helps high school students with disabilities stretch beyond preconceived notions about their futures and construct realistic post-high school goals for themselves, has been nominated for the Council of State Governments’ 2010 Innovations Awards.
Soaring to New Heights is a collaboration among the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning’s Division of Adult Studies, Unified School District 259 in Wichita, the Kansas Rehabilitation Services vocational rehabilitation agency in the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, and the Medicaid Infrastructure Grant in the Kansas Health Policy Authority. The Innovations Award nomination came from the governor’s office.
Participating students are high school juniors who have high-incidence disabilities, such as learning disabilities, behavior disorders, or mild cognitive disabilities other than LD. The study sites—seven public high schools in Wichita, Kan.—represent an urban environment in which two-thirds of students across the district receive free and reduced lunches. The course is built around the concept of students learning to see themselves as capable and competent while developing the skills they need to make a successful transition from high school to work or more education.
The Council of State Governments’ Innovations Awards bring greater visibility to exemplary state programs and facilitate the transfer of those successful experiences to other states. CSG receives hundreds of nominations every year and selects just two award-winners in each of its four regions. Programs are judged on their newness, creativity, effectiveness, transferability, and significance.
Read more about Soaring to New Heights in our project profile.
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