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• Family Education and Community Power: new structures for new visions in the educational village

  1/1/02 - Breitborde, Mary-Lou, Swiniarski, Louise Boyle

  Noting that differences and inequality of education exist in the United States of America, this paper presents two model educational programs that address the iniquities in American public education. The first model is a collaborative effort of a public school in an urban northeast community, the Robert L. Ford Elementary School of Lynn, Massachusetts, USA and a public supported college of higher education, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts, USA, whose joint venture is known as The...

• Family Village: A Global Community of Disability-Related Resources

  Information, resources, and internet communities for communication are combined here for anyone involved with people who deal with disabilities. The website is designed as a mini-village, including a school secction where there are topics devoted just for kids. Within education, the site links up to sources with information about how to communicate with schools, be an advocate for students, inclusive education resources, and disability awareness education materials.

• Framing African American Students' Success and Failure in Urban Settings

  1/1/08 - Lewis, Chance W., James, Marlon, Hancock, Stephen, Hill-Jackson, Valerie

  Grounded in critical race theory, this article seeks to frame the ideological positions of success and failure for African American students in urban school settings. First, we revisit national data and research literature that illustrate the ongoing urban Black-White achievement gap. Second, the Matrix of Achievement Paradigms is shared in an attempt to advance the conversation on African American students' achievement. It provides a serviceable organizational tool for framing African...

• From Research to Policy and Practice: The School of the 21st Century

  1/1/07 - Zigler, Edward, Finn-Stevenson, Matia

  Current education reform policies focus on raising academic achievement and ensuring that all students have access to high-quality education. Because the achievement gap is apparent even before children enter school, the authors believe that education reform must encompass the early childhood years. The current dialogue about universal preschool presents an opportunity to address the need for a national system for early care and education. The authors believe this system should provide...

• Gap or Gaps: Challenging the Singular Definition of the Achievement Gap

  1/1/06 - Carpenter Ii, Dick M., Ramirez, Al, Severn, Laura

  For decades, researchers examined the ‘achievement gap’ between minority and nonminority students. This singular definition of achievement gap ignores important within-group differences. This article uses National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS:88) data to examine within-group differences and compares those across Latino, African American, and White populations. Results question the singular definition of achievement gap. Given the importance of how issues are defined, a singular...

• Gender Differences and Similarities in PISA 2003 Mathematics: A Comparison between the United States and Hong Kong

  1/1/09 - Liu, Ou Lydia, Wilson, Mark

  Differential gender performance in standardized mathematics assessment has long been a heated topic. Gender gaps of varied magnitude have been identified on large-scale assessments in the United States. To continue the investigation, this study examined male and female performance on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003 mathematics along four in-depth dimensions (strand, content topics, competency cluster, and item format). Furthermore, to identify the shared and...

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  Helping Children Express Their Wants and Needs

  1/18/09 - M.M. Ostrosky, M. L. Hemmeter , J. Murry, G. Cheatham

  This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments. In early childhood settings, each moment that...

• Helping Struggling Middle School Literacy Learners Achieve Success

  1/1/09 - Palumbo, Anthony, Sanacore, Joseph

  Teachers can help minority children close the academic achievement gap in intermediate and middle school by combining literacy instruction and content-area material. This connection improves reading achievement and increases curriculum knowledge, even if students have previously experienced difficulty with primary school reading. Fortunately, upper-elementary and middle-level learners are still naturally curious, are developing cognitively, and have acquired some basic reading skills...

• How Large an Effect Can We Expect from School Reforms?

  1/1/08 - Konstantopoulos, Spyros, Hedges, Larry V.

  Background/Context: Determining the effectiveness of reform strategies is a major part of the current and future educational research agenda. Effects of education reforms will be evaluated largely quantitatively, and an important aspect of this work will be judging how well reform strategies work. The rhetoric of contemporary school reform suggests two somewhat different solutions to the problem of the interpretive frame. One solution is derived from the idea that the goal of school reform...

• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning with Additional Materials

  Bransford, J. D.

• Identity, Belonging, and Achievement: A Model, Interventions, Implications

  1/1/08 - Cohen, Geoffrey L., Garcia, Julio

  In this article we discuss how social or group identities affect achievement. We also present a model of identity engagement that describes how a salient social identity can trigger psychological threat and belonging concerns and how these can produce persistent performance decrements, which through feedback loops can increase over time. The character of such processes may be revealed only over time because they are recursive in nature and interact with other factors in chronically...

• Immigration from Mexico into the Math/Science Pipeline in American Education

  1/1/04 - Crosnoe, Robert, Lopez-Gonzalez, Lorena, Muller, Chandra

  The purpose of this study was to explore generational differences in math/science enrollment and achievement among Mexican-American students and the role of family and school contexts in these differences.We applied survey regression techniques to data from 12,020 adolescents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.Native-born Mexican-American students had lower math/science enrollment than their peers, especially after differences in family and school contexts were taken...

• Immigration, Language, and Education: How Does Language Policy Structure Opportunity?

  1/1/09 - GÁNdara, Patricia, Rumberger, Russell W.

  Background/Context: According to U.S. Census figures, 11 million elementary and secondary students of immigrant families were enrolled in the public schools in October 2005, representing 20% of all students, and this figure is expected to grow in the coming years. Most of these students enter school as English learners (ELs), and most ELs have exceptionally low performance on measures of academic achievement and attainment. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: This article...

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  Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade

  1/28/11 - Shanahan, T., Callison, K., Carriere, C., Duke, N. K., Pearson, P. D., Schatschneider, C., &, Torgesen, J.

  The fundamental assumption in this guide is that the objective of reading instruction is to give young readers the tools they need to understand increasingly sophisticated material in all subjects from elementary through later years of school. The practices recommended in this guide are therefore not an end in themselves, but the means to developing sound ability in reading comprehension. With this principle in mind, teachers should prepare their reading lessons in a way that encourages...

• INCREASING PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG ADOLESCENT AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES

  1/1/07 - Martin, Don, Martin, Magy, Gibson, Suzanne Semivan, Wilkins, Jonathan

  African American adolescents disproportionately perform poorly compared to peers in both behavioral and academic aspects of their educational experience. In this study, African American male students participated in an after-school program involving tutoring, group counseling, and various enrichment activities. All students were assessed regarding their behavioral changes using attendance, discipline referrals, suspensions, and expulsions reports. The Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (KBIT...

• Interculture Communication: A reader

  1/1/94 - Samovar, L & Porter , R

  This book contains materials that are broadly based, comprehensive, and suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students.