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This study tested the effectiveness of Project CRISS (Creating Independence through Student-owned Strategies), a professional development intervention for high school teachers of core subjects.

This report—published in late December 2010— analyzes the characteristics, qualifications, roles, and functions of school support team members in four Northwest Region states in 2009/10.

This Institute of Education Sciences guide identifies practices that can improve the performance of chronically low-performing schools—a process commonly referred to as creating “turnaround schools.”

The most comprehensive effort to date to study Indian education policies, the report categorizes the Indian education policies of the five Northwest Region states based on 13 key policies identified in the literature and describes the legal methods used to adopt them.

This study reports on the developmental functioning levels of children from birth through age 2 in early intervention services and children ages 3–5 in early childhood special education services at the time of entry into services, using data from the Oregon Early Childhood Assessment System.

This descriptive study examines the systems of technical assistance that Northwest Region states implemented during 2005/06 for schools in need of improvement.

Under NCLB, Title IIB Mathematics and Science Partnerships provide the main support for professional development for math and science teachers. This report looks at what types of activities are being funded in the Northwest and how they impact teacher knowledge and practice.

Focusing on student proficiency in reading and math from 2003/04 to 2006/07, this report compares gaps in performance on state achievement tests between grade 8 American Indian and Alaska Native students and all other grade 8 students in 26 states serving large populations of American Indian and Alaska Native students.