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Students participate more if they are trained in self-directed IEPs
If they receive specific instruction on how to lead the meeting, students play a more active role in their Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings and are more invested in the process.

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RETENTION Question to ask in grade retention debate: Will student have different experience Study questions belief that retaining students in early grades does less harm than good STUDENT MOBILITY Dept. of Defense schools model for helping mobile students New intervention strategies needed to help "excessively mobile" students UNDERACHIEVERS/MOTIVATION Fear of failure key to understanding underachieving students, psychological study says Factors promoting math achievement among at-risk elementary students Academic motivation of African American students Increasing at-risk students' achievement Peers, parents and teachers influence amotivation in teenage students

DROPOUT PREVENTION Four indicators to identify potential dropouts in 6th grade In dropout prevention, effective teaching practices are first line of defense Dropouts reflect on why they left school, how schools can help students graduate In pool of dropouts are persistent strugglers Ninth-grade success is critical for preventing school dropouts READING AND BEHAVIOR Interventions for reading or behavior improves both Language impairments related to reading and behavior problems INCOME GAP Experiential education narrows gap between low- and high-income students

LITERACY Tutoring improves reading among struggling first graders The slippery slope of an early literacy gap Students make gains in literacy by seeing themselves read fluently on edited videos INTERVENTIONS Intervention on social skills expanded to academic motivation and responsibility Responsive Classroom shows promising results Group interventions harmful for delinquent teens Early intervention for behavior problems 4th-grade summer reading program