31 None 2008 <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'">The august American Educational Research Association is known for its weighty research journals, where the articles are screened by serious scholars and written in a style that isn't -- how shall we put it? -- terribly &quot;reader friendly.&quot; Now comes AERA's &quot;Research Points,&quot; a four-page quarterly newsletter that offers a crisp summary of research around important policy issues. So far, this publication dedicated to &quot;Essential Information for Education Policy&quot; has covered class size, alignment of standards and tests, and most recently, boosting academic achievement of English Language Learners. This link leads to the newsletter archive page.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'"><o:p></o:p></span>  http://www.aera.net/publications/?id=314