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Academic Exchange Quarterly

http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/index.htm

Academic Exchange Quarterly, a peer-reviewed print journal, is 10 years old.  See the link for on-line reading of all articles published.

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How Teachers Can Use Scientifically Based Research to Make Curricular & Instructional Decisions

http://www.centeroninstruction.org/files/ResearchAndReason.html

Authors
Paula J. Stanovich and Keith E. Stanovich
University of Toronto

In the recent move toward standards-based reform in public education, many educational reform efforts require schools to demonstrate that they are achieving educational outcomes with students performing at a required level of achievement. Federal and state legislation, in particular, has codified this standards-based movement and tied funding and other incentives to student achievement.

At first, demonstrating student learning may seem like a simple task, but reflection reveals that it is a complex challenge requiring educators to use specific knowledge and skills. Standards-based reform has many curricular and instructional prerequisites. The curriculum must represent the most important knowledge, skills, and attributes that schools want their students to acquire because these learning outcomes will serve as the basis of assessment instruments

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The Partnership for Reading

http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/

The Partnership for Reading offers information about the effective teaching of reading for children, adolescents, and adults, based on the evidence from quality research. The Partnership invites you to explore this site for information on the research, principles about reading instruction suggested by the research, and products for parents, teachers, administrators, and policy-makers.

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Literacy Journals

http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/litjrnl.htm

This is a link to all of the literacy journals that are beginning to carry their publications on-line. 

“Many publishers have begun to transform their publications into online versions to increase the timeliness of content and to enhance their issues with electronic resources and tools (ie. search functions, integrated audio clips, hypertext links, animations) available with online documents.”

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