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Top tier: Special education faculty pioneer responsiveness to intervention

Spring 2007, Camilla Meek, Ideas In Action

RTI provides increasingly intensive interventions in a three-tier system to students who are not achieving to academic expectations

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No Child Left Behind: Who's accountable?

Summer 2007, Lisa A. DuBois, Peabody Reflector

A look at No Child Left Behind through the Peabody lens

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Kids find fresh produce is peachy

The Tennessean

Darcy Freedman, a doctoral student in the Community Research and Action Program, is leading a combined effort to combat childhood obesity and enhance nutrition education by bringing market-fresh produce to underserved communities in the Nashville area.

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Institute strives to keep promising black students on track

July 16, 2007, Vanderbilt Register

The two-week Summer Scholar Identity Institute, developed by Donna Ford, Betts Chair of Education and Human Development and a professor of special education, and Gilman Whiting, assistant professor of African American and diaspora studies and human and organizational development, strives to close the achievement gap between young black males and other students.

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New research project to provide parental training for children at risk for autism

July 3, 2007, Vanderbilt Register

A new study designed to examine the benefits of a parent training intervention for improving social and communication skills in young children at risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is looking for children between 15 and 24 months who are at risk for ASD.

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