Most of you are familiar with and probably use on a regular basis the information from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), which is part of the US Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). You may not be as familiar with the other centers associated with IES - National Center for Education Research (NCER), National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), and National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER). Even if you are aware of these centers it can be difficult to keep up with their activities.
To help you stay abreast of what is being published by these centers IES has developed IES Newsflash. This is an e-mail-based alert service designed to inform you about all new content posted to the IES website including news from its four Centers and programs within Centers such as the Regional Educational Laboratory Program. Simply enter your e-mail address to receive alerts in the areas of interest you select.
Alerts from NCEE include updates from the What Works Clearinghouse, Regional Education Laboratory Program and ERIC. Recent evaluation postings included reports on intervention practices for elementary reading, the striving readers program for struggling adolescent readers, and implementation of recovery act reforms. You can even drill down to and only receive alerts from specific data products within NCES such as early childhood surveys or international comparisons.
I realize this means more incoming mail to be sorted through, but you can set up a fold to receive these alerts and peruse them at your leisure. The alerts themselves are brief, providing only a quick summary and a link to the complete report.
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