WestEd staff will lead, present, chair, or serve as discussants in 38 sessions and meetings at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, April 11–14, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Our Assessment Research and Innovation team will participate in sessions at the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Meeting, which meets concurrently with AERA.
View a list of WestEd’s activities, attend our annual reception, and visit us in the exhibition hall to chat with our staff and learn about emerging research and career opportunities.
Join us on Wednesday, April 24, for the second session of our new webinar series hosted by the National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners.
Join us at a two-day conference in Portland, Oregon, convened by the National Research & Development Center. Learn about current research and develop plans to improve education for English Learners.
While school-based law enforcement has become a standard intervention for reducing school violence, new evidence indicates that it falls short of fulfilling this objective and, instead, can lead to adverse outcomes.
Disproportional identification and placement in special education is a pervasive issue for students of color, English Learners, and students from nondominant cultures. However, leaders can begin to address disproportionality in special education by taking action in four key areas.
WestEd researchers identified frameworks, tools, and strategies that educator preparation programs can use to develop culturally responsive teachers and leaders.
State of the States, an interactive mapping tool from the Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability at WestEd, provides a snapshot of states’ standards, assessments, and high school graduation initiatives.
WestEd is working with Texas A&M University researchers to scale its innovative, evidence-based reading comprehension program, KATE. The study, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, is seeking districts to participate starting in the 2024/25 school year.
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