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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Culturally Responsive Practices for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Learning Disabilities
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Utley, Cheryl A.; Obiakor, Festus E.; Bakken, Jeffrey P. – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2011
This article discusses culturally responsive frameworks, principles, pedagogy, and curriculum for general and special educators who work with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students with learning disabilities (LD). Culturally responsive teaching has critical features that could benefit CLD students with LD. For example, culturally…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education, Cultural Differences
A Psychometric Investigation of the Multicultural and Special Education Survey: An Exploratory Factor Analysis
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Utley, Cheryl A. – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2011
An exploratory factorial analysis of the Multicultural and Special Education Survey (MSES) evaluated the professional development training needs of general and special educators in a midwestern state. Survey items were selected from the culturally and linguistically diverse multicultural, bilingual and special education literature bases (CLD). The…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Disabilities, Factor Analysis, Community Relations
The Effects of Modified Classwide Peer Tutoring Procedures on the Generalization of Spelling Skills of Urban Third-Grade Elementary Students
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Hashimoto, Kazunari; Utley, Cheryl A.; Greenwood, Charles R.; Pitchlyn, Carol L. – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2007
A single-subject reversal design with counterbalanced phases across two classrooms was used to measure the effects of peer tutoring on the retention and generalization of spelling words in two third-grade general education classrooms. The results revealed that the mean pretest-posttest gain scores during all the peer tutoring phases of the two…
Descriptors: Spelling, Generalization, Peer Teaching, Tutoring