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Striving Readers webinar
Friday, March 11, 2011
If you missed Don Deshler’s Striving Readers webinar on March 9, watch the video here.
Deshler, Mellard present at RTI Leadership Forum
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Don Deshler, KUCRL director, presented the opening keynote address for NCLD’s RTI Leadership Forum, December 8, 2010, in Washington, D.C. Daryl Mellard, director of KUCRL’s Division of Adult Studies, participated in a panel titled Meeting the needs of struggling learners - How is RTI addressing the needs of students with disabilities, other students who need differentiated instruction, and students who need adequate instruction?
Don Deshler keynote
Daryl Mellard panel
Learn more about the forum and find links to Don’s handouts and transcript of the address here. More information about Daryl’s panel, including links to handouts and transcripts, may be found here.
New publication
Friday, December 03, 2010
We’ve added a new article to our publication list: RTI Tier Structures and Instructional Intensity by Daryl Mellard, Melinda McKnight, and Joanna Jordan, published in Learning Disabilities Research & Practice. Visit our Research page for a comprehensive list of CRL publications. You can search the list by author or topic.
Moving the needle on adolescent literacy
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The Harvard Graduate School of Education website features a story about Don Deshler’s presentation of the sixth annual Jeanne S. Chall Lecture.
Deshler presents Harvard lecture
Friday, October 22, 2010
Don Deshler, director of the Center for Research on Learning, discussed adolescent literacy in the sixth annual Jeanne S. Chall Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Education yesterday. Read the story in the Harvard Crimson.
Expert on health insurance and preexisting conditions to brief federal officials
Friday, October 22, 2010
Jean P. Hall, associate research professor in the Center for Research on Learning’s Division of Adult Studies, analyzed a provision of the recently passed federal health reform law that establishes a national pool to provide basic health coverage to people who have been turned down in the individual insurance market because of pre-existing conditions. Hall meets with key congressional staff and administration officials to discuss her findings today. Read the press release.
Affordable Care Act Options for People with Preexisting Conditions
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Commonwealth Fund blog features a post by CRL’s Jean Hall.
KU press conference announcing $22 million grant
Friday, October 15, 2010
Watch the KU press conference announcing a $22 million grant to develop a new assessment system for special education. KU officials on hand to make the announcement: Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, School of Education Dean Rick Ginsberg, and Neal Kingston, a faculty member in the Department of Psychology and Research in Education and director of KU’s Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation. Kingston will lead the grant.
Computer game teaches middle-schoolers to weigh scientific claims
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
“The Evidence Game” will teach students several components of scientific argumentation: making claims or statements; identifying and evaluating types of evidence; challenging claims or statements; backing up claims with logical reasoning tied to evidence; criticizing reasoning; and preparing to rebut counter arguments. Read the press release..
The Nexus of Health, Disability, and Work
Friday, September 17, 2010
A new University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning study will take a close look at the interaction of health, disability, and work among low-income people with disabilities. The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research in the U.S. Department of Education awarded $486,000 for the study, which will begin in October. Jean Hall, associate research professor at the Center, will lead the project.
Unemployment rates for low-income people with disabilities are much higher than for the general population, at least in part because individuals can lose federal disability cash benefits and health care coverage through Medicare or Medicaid if they are employed. However, some states offer a work incentive program (Medicaid Buy-In) that allows people to work and accumulate assets without endangering their Medicaid coverage. The new study will examine health disparities between the 1,100 people enrolled in the Kansas Medicaid Buy-In program, Working Healthy, and 1,200 low-income Kansas Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities who are not enrolled in Working Healthy.
One of the goals of the study is to understand how work—especially participation in a work incentive program such as Working Healthy—affects the health and quality of life of low-income people with disabilities. Hall and her colleagues will identify implications for health care policy and will develop recommendations for policymakers.
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