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50 Years of ERIC
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The Continuum of "Troubling" to "Troubled" Behavior: Exploratory Case Studies of African American Students in Programs for Emotional Disturbance
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Hart, Juliet E.; Cramer, Elizabeth D.; Harry, Beth; Klingner, Janette K.; Sturges, Keith M. – Remedial and Special Education, 2010
This article discusses the construction of the "emotional disturbance" (ED) category in the cases of four African American elementary students. These cases represent a sub-set of data from a three-year ethnographic study of the special education process in a large, culturally/linguistically diverse school district. Based on interviews,…
Descriptors: African American Students, Emotional Disturbances, Academic Achievement, Ethnography
Improving the Reading Comprehension of Middle School Students with Disabilities through Computer-Assisted Collaborative Strategic Reading
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Kim, Ae-Hwa; Vaughn, Sharon; Klingner, Janette K.; Woodruff, Althea L.; Reutebuch, Colleen Klein; Kouzekanani, Kamiar – Remedial and Special Education, 2006
This study investigated the effects of computer-assisted comprehension practice using a researcher-developed computer program, Computer-Assisted Collaborative Strategic Reading (CACSR), with students who had disabilities. Two reading/language arts teachers and their 34 students with disabilities participated. Students in the intervention group…
Descriptors: Intervention, Disabilities, Mastery Tests, Effect Size
African American Families Under Fire: Ethnographic Views of Family Strengths
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Harry, Beth; Klingner, Janette K.; Hart, Juliet – Remedial and Special Education, 2005
This article focuses on the discrepancy between school personnel's negative stereotyping of African American families and the family information gleaned by ethnographic research. Using findings from a 3-year ethnographic study of the special education placement process in a culturally diverse urban school district, we describe the general…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Caregivers, Urban Schools, Special Education
Collaborative Strategic Reading: "Real-World" Lessons From Classroom Teachers
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Klingner, Janette K.; Vaughn, Sharon; Arguelles, Maria Elena; Hughes, Marie Tejero; Leftwich, Suzette Ahwee – Remedial and Special Education, 2004
The present study extends 8 years of previous research using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR), a set of comprehension strategies designed to improve understanding of expository text. We examined teachers' year long implementation of CSR. Five intervention and five control teachers from five schools participated along with their students.…
Descriptors: Teachers, Intervention, Inferences, Reading Comprehension
Collaborative Strategic Reading as a Means To Enhance Peer-Mediated Instruction for Reading Comprehension and Content-Area Learning.
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Vaughn, Sharon; Klingner, Janette K.; Bryant, Diane P. – Remedial and Special Education, 2001
This article summarizes studies conducted with Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR), a program designed to enhance reading comprehension and content-area reading for diverse learners. It describes the stages of CSR development and discusses the role of peer-mediated learning in improving the social and academic outcomes of participating students.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Peer Teaching
Sustaining Research-Based Practices in Reading: A 3-Year Follow-Up.
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Klingner, Janette K.; Vaughn, Sharon; Hughes, Marie Tejero; Arguelles, Maria Elena – Remedial and Special Education, 1999
Three years after seven teachers had participated in an intensive year-long professional development experience in three multilevel reading practices (partner reading, collaborative strategic reading, and making words), all but one teacher sustained one or more of the practices at a high rate, as determined by classroom observation and interviews.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Followup Studies, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Effectiveness