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Closing
the Achievement Gap: Two Views from Current Research
The Color of Discipline: Understanding Racial Disparity in School Discipline Practices
(pdf,
116kb)
Differentiation
of Instruction in the Elementary Grades
To meet the needs of a diverse student population, many teachers differentiate instruction.
How
do I use all this data?
A few tips -- derived from a thorough review of the latest research on data-driven decision making and our personal work with more than 1,000 school executives over the past year -- to help you through crunch time
How
lifestyle factors and classroom culture affect black-white differences: An
Interview with Ronald Ferguson
Ronald Ferguson, a professor of public policy at Harvard University discusses recent research on the achievement gap.
National
Center for Culturally Responsive Education Systems (NCCRESt)
Develops several kinds of evidence-based publications designed to assist students,
families, school professionals, researchers and policy makers in understanding
and developing solutions to disproportionality.
Schools
More Separate: Consequences of a Decade of Desegregation
school segregation was unconstitutional and "inherently unequal," statistics from the 1998-99 school year show that segregation continued to intensify throughout the 1990s.
Schools
See IB Degree as Way to Boost Minority Achievement
A decade ago, Mount Vernon High School installed the International Baccalaureate program -- an obscure and difficult curriculum created in Switzerland -- because it needed something to save its plummeting academic reputation.
What
Do We Know About Raising Minority Academic Achievement?
A new American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) report, supported by the William T. Grant Foundation, details a two-year effort to find, summarize and analyze evaluations of school and youth programs that show gains for minority youth across a broad range of academic achievement indicators.