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Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL-ED) to be tested in 300 schools
New tool gauges principal effectiveness
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Learning Sciences Institute: Local connections for national impact
Building a community of scholarship in the learning sciences is paramount for LSI investigators
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Spanning the Achievement Gap
Two Vanderbilt faculty members have created the Vanderbilt University Achievement Gap Project to ameliorate the academic problems of minority students in the nation's K-12 schools.
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Becoming ExpERT
David Cordray leads the cross-disciplinary ExpERT program for pre-doctoral students
In studying common problems of learning, achievement, and education, Vanderbilt's ExpERT program gives students the opportunity to engage in rigorous, field-based, experimental research, along with interdisciplinary discussion and study of important educational problems to ask better questions and find better answers to today's pressing issues in education.
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