Where to Find NCEO's Latest News and Publications

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NCEO's latest news and publications are collected in the "Latest News and Publications" section of its homepage at nceo.info. That section is the fastest way to see what the National Center on Educational Outcomes has just released: recent briefs, newsletter issues, and highlighted resources. Use it when you want current material on including students with disabilities—including English learners with disabilities—in instruction and assessments; use the site's Quick Links when you already know which toolkit or data resource you need.

What the Latest News and Publications Section Shows

The section is a running feed of new work rather than a full archive. Recent entries described on the site include:

  • "Resources Supporting Statewide Assessment Participation" — a brief in the "Participation Matters" series that connects policymakers with NCEO resources for ensuring students with disabilities fully participate in statewide assessments. It is aimed at state and local agencies improving assessment policies.
  • "More Than a Score: Asking about Assessment When Choosing a School for Your Student with a Disability" — a family-facing brief on why to ask about assessment during school choice, with suggested questions about how a student's learning will be measured and reported, definitions of key assessment terms, and links to more information.
  • The NCEO June 2026 Newsletter — covers NCEO's June NCSA conference sessions and a post-conference assessment forum on process data, and highlights five recently published NCEO publications and resources.

Two things follow from this. First, the feed mixes audiences—policymakers, state and local agencies, and families—so check the brief's framing before forwarding it. Second, newsletter issues are themselves publication announcements, which makes them a good periodic catch-up if you don't want to monitor the page.

Quick Links: When You Need a Specific Resource

If your question is "where is the tool for X" rather than "what's new," the Quick Links list on the homepage points directly to NCEO's standing resources:

Quick Link Likely use
1% Toolkit Alternate assessment participation and the 1% cap
Accommodations Toolkit Assessment accommodations for students with disabilities
Annual Performance Reports (APR) State performance reporting
Assessment Snapshot Data / Data Analytics Assessment data views and analysis
Participation Communication Toolkit Communicating about assessment participation
School Leader Series Resources aimed at school administrators
Searchable Research Summaries Finding research by topic
AA-AAAS Bibliography Literature on alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards
Accommodations Bibliography Literature on accommodations
Special Education Directors Toolkit Resources for special education directors
ELs with Disabilities Toolkit English learners with disabilities
Videos Multimedia resources

The site describes NCEO's scope as accessibility across the comprehensive assessment system—formative, classroom-based, diagnostic, interim, and summative assessments—so expect new items to land anywhere in that range rather than only on large-scale testing.

A Practical Way to Keep Up

  1. Check the homepage feed first. Open nceo.info and read the Latest News and Publications entries; each names the publication and its purpose in a sentence or two.
  2. Open the newsletter for the roundup. A newsletter issue bundles conference sessions, a featured topic (such as process data), and a list of newly published resources—useful if you've been away for a month.
  3. Follow the link from the brief to the underlying resource. Briefs in series like "Participation Matters" are entry points; the linked NCEO tools are where the operational detail sits.
  4. Fall back to Quick Links once you know the resource category you need.

A common snag: the feed highlights only recent items, so an older toolkit won't appear there even though it's still live. Go through Quick Links or the searchable research summaries instead of scrolling for it. Also note that the site does not state pricing or access terms for its publications on the pages described here—if you need to confirm reuse permissions or availability, check the individual publication page rather than assuming.