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  The State of Equity in Public Schools Webinar

  1/13/10 - Equity Alliance at ASU,, Kathleen King

  We will start by focusing on understanding the contexts and outcomes of disparities in access and achievement for students in the United States, and then move onto looking at how these contexts play out as de/segregation and equity issues in Arizona, California, and Nevada. Then we’ll move on to and talk about some efforts being made to address these disparities. Finally, we’ll provide some tools and information for schools as they examine their own policies and practices in their...

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  The State of Preschool

  1/5/09 - W. Steven Barnett , Dale J. Epstein , Allison H. Friedman, Judi Stevenson Boyd, Jason T. Hustedt

  The 2008 State Preschool Yearbook is the sixth in a series of annual reports profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. This latest Yearbook presents data on state-funded prekindergarten during the 2007-2008 school year. The first report in this series focused on programs for the 2001-2002 school year and established a baseline against which we may now measure progress over seven years. Tracking these trends is essential, since changes in states' policies on...

• Thinking Carefully About Equity and Accountability

  1/1/00 - Scheurich, James Joseph, Skrla, Linda, Johnson, Joseph F.

  Focuses on education in the United States and how children from low-income families, particularly minority families, do not perform as well as children from middle class families. How standardization efforts have met with criticism and approval in their attempts to decrease the learning gap; Suggestion that many educators have given up on children from lower income families; Proposal of ways to deal with the problem using various criteria to develop an effective state program.

• Uncertainty and decision making in teaching: Implications for managing line professionals

  1/1/89 - Bacharach, S., Conley, S., T. J. Sergiovanni and J. H. Moore

  Most of this book's 22 chapters were written as background papers that were presented at a national conference on restructuring schooling held at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, August 18-21, 1987. Framing the chapters of this book is the notion that if rational management systems and theoretical treatises about promoting school excellence do not take into account the realities of the workplace, they will not bring about sustained improvements in our nation's schools. Chapters in...

• Understanding Trends in the Black-White Achievement Gaps during the First Years of School

  1/1/06 - Murnane, Richard J., Willett, John B., Bub, Kristen L., McCartney, Kathleen

  The article examines the research conducted by Ronald G. Fryer and Steven D. Levitt, focusing on differences by grade in the black-white test score gap in reading and mathematics, based on analyses of data on the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K) in the U.S. The types of school quality indicators used are discussed. A comparison between the data sets of ECLS-K and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is also presented.

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  Using student achievement data to support instructional decision making

  1/28/10 - Hamilton, L., Halverson, R., Jackson, S., Mandinach, E., Supovitz, J., & Wayman, J.

  Recent changes in accountability and testing policies have provided educators with access to an abundance of student-level data, and the availability of such data has led many to want to strengthen the role of data for guiding instruction and improving student learning. The U.S. Department of Education recently echoed this desire, calling upon schools to use assessment data to respond to students’ academic strengths and needs.5 In addition, spurred in part by federal legislation and...

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  Using the right data to determine if high school interventions are working to prepare students for college and careers

  1/22/10 - Chrys Dougherty

  "This report focuses on identifying students who have large academic preparation gaps entering high school and developing databases that can be used to identify promising interventions for those students. Section 2 discusses how to disaggregate poorly prepared students based on the size of their academic preparation gaps relative to college and career readiness targets on state and national tests. Section 3 reports on research at the National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA) on the...

• What's on Your Nation's Report Card?

  1/1/07 - Norton Iii, Anderson H.

  The article discusses the mathematics problems used on the U.S.'s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card. The author focuses on a constructed-response item, designed to reveal students' problem-solving abilities and conceptual understanding, and uses it to illustrate how a different interpretation of students' responses can reveal more about their reasoning and lead to a different assessment. He discusses aspects of student responses that...

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  Whatever it takes: How twelve communities are reconnecting out-of-school youth

  1/24/10 - Martin, N., Halperin, S.

  The report focuses on two questions related to recovery programs: “What can be done to recover and reconnect our young people to opportunities for building useful lives in work, family, and citizenship; and “Who is doing what, and where, to reengage out-of-school youth while working to strengthen the communities in which they live?”. The report summarizes a variety of programs from around the United States and includes information about participants, costs of implementation, and...

• Why the gap between Black and White performance in school?: A report on the effects of race on student achievement in the St. Louis public schools

  1/1/97 - Trent, William T.

  Presents the report submitted to the court during the 1996 Liddell hearings, which is divided into 2 parts and revised to incorporate points raised during W. T. Trent's testimony on March 19, 1996. Part 1 analyzes the effects of race on student achievement and is based on data supplied by the St. Louis Public School District, cohort files covering 4 cohorts of students, and call-in enrollment data files. Data for the effects of race, student background, prior test scores, school...

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  Working Dads: Final Report of the Fathers at Work Initiative

  1/23/09 - Shayne Spaulding, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Dee Wallace

  "During the past several decades, many efforts have focused on the crisis that lies at the intersection of proliferating single-parent households, absent fathers and poverty. In 2001, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation launched Fathers at Work to test approaches for helping young low-income noncustodial fathers provide for themselves and their children; the project was designed to inform practitioners and policymakers about effective interventions for this population. Six community-based...

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  Working without a net: How new teachers from three prominent alternate route programs describe their first year on the job

  1/3/09 - National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality,

  Working Without a Net provides additional results from the new-teacher survey conducted by Public Agenda. It focuses on new teachers in high-needs schools, comparing the perspectives of those from traditional teacher education versus those from three alternate-route programs: Teach for America, Troops to Teachers, and The New Teacher Project.

• “The Information Gap?”

  1/1/06 - Teske, Paul, Fitzpatrick, Jody, Kaplan, Gabriel

  While the “achievement gap” generally and appropriately focuses upon gaps in test scores and other outcome measures, there may also be an “information gap” between higher and lower income parents that creates a disadvantage for lower income families in choosing good schools. In this article, we examine the extent to which there is such a gap, with a focus on data from a new survey of low- and moderate-income parents who have made school choices. We find that, at least in relatively...