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  Practices for English Language Learners: An Overview of Instructional Practices for English-Language Learners:Prominent Themes and Future Directions

  1/22/07 - Russell Gersten , Scott Baker, Equity Alliance at ASU

  Anyone involved with schools — especially urban schools — knows firsthand how often discussions of bilingual education generate more heat than light. In such a politically charged context, it is often difficult to know where to look for up-to-date and fair summaries of what research is discovering about best practices. We think that the following review by Russell Gersten and Scott Baker brings some needed illumination to this controversial area. Our hope is that educators and...

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  School Improvement Survey

  1/26/07 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,, Equity Alliance at ASU

  This survey helps schools measure how individuals associated with the school disclose their perspectives of how an ideal school would operate and compare it to the degree to which the school accomplishes the statement. Questions are categorized into: teacher and school practices, school climate, and school/community partnerships. This survey tool is also available to take online at http://niusi.edreform.net/login.html.

• Legal and educational perspectives of equity in assessment

  1/1/08 - Cumming, J. Joy

  Equity in assessment concerns all educational authorities and practitioners. While educators commonly consider issues of equity in terms of accommodations for students with special needs, or addressing cultural difference, equity issues in educational assessment have emerged outside these bases. This paper examines equity assessment issues, drawing predominantly on case history from the United States of America (US) with examples from Australia and England, to demonstrate areas that may draw...

• Neuroscience Perspectives on Disparities in School Readiness and Cognitive Achievement

  1/1/05 - Noble, Kimberly G., Tottenham, Nim, Casey, B. J.

  This article allows readers to look at racial and ethnic disparities in school readiness from a neuroscience perspective. Although researchers have traditionally measured gaps in school readiness using broad achievement tests, they can now assess readiness in terms of more specific brain-based cognitive functions. Three neurocognitive systems--cognitive control, learning and memory, and reading--are essential for success in school. Thanks to recent advances in brain imaging, it is now...

• The impact of the academic achievement gap on the African American family: A social inequality perspective

  1/1/07 - Leach, Monica T., Williams, Sheara A.

  The academic achievement gap impacts the African American family in various ways. It can influence how African American children experience school; and it has implications for their high school dropout and graduation rates, college attendance, and college completion rates. For parents, the academic achievement gap may influence their own socioeconomic status via their educational attainment, which then has direct implications for their children. The purpose of this article is to present a...

• The Impact of the Academic Achievement Gap on the African American Family: A Social Inequality Perspective

  1/1/07 - Leach, Monica T., Williams, Sheara A.

  The academic achievement gap impacts the African American family in various ways. It can influence how African American children experience school; and it has implications for their high school dropout and graduation rates, college attendance, and college completion rates. For parents, the academic achievement gap may influence their own socioeconomic status via their educational attainment, which then has direct implications for their children. The purpose of this article is to present a...

• "Postmodern Practice: Perspectives and Prospects.

  1/1/93 - Freed, Richard C., Nancy Roundy Blyler and Charlotte Thralls.

• Entre la Espada y la Pared: Critical Educators, Bilingual Education, and Education Reform

  1/1/05 - Olivos, Edward M., Quintana de Valladolid, Carmen E.

  From the perspective of two practitioners who have been influenced by work in the area of critical pedagogy and critical theory, this article examines bilingual education, education reform, and the achievement gap in relation to Latino English Language Learners. The authors integrate personal experiences as they examine underlying assumptions of class, race, and asymmetrical power relations in current education policy and classroom practice. They argue that, despite feelings of being...

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  A developmental perspective on college & workplace readiness

  1/3/09 - Lippman, L., Atienza, A., Rivers, A., Keith, J.

  This report provides a developmental perspective on what competencies young people need to be ready for college, the workplace, and the transition to adulthood. National hand-wringing about the lack of preparedness of high school graduates for college and the workplace has catalyzed researchers, educators, and policymakers to define the skills and competencies students need in order to be successful. These prescriptions tend to focus either on college readiness or on workplace readiness. At...

• A parental perspective on stress and coping.

  1/1/85 - Lipsky, D. G.

• A sociocultural perspective on learning and learning disabilities.

  1/1/97 - Keogh, B. K., Gallimore, R., & Weisnet, T.

• Acquisition of simple and complex knowledge: a knowledge gap perspective [computer file]

  1/1/05 - Le Heron, Judy, Sligo, Frank

  This paper assesses university students' acquisition of simple and complex knowledge, in exploring whether the knowledge gap hypothesis (KGH) with its origins in community-based research into people's informal learning from mass media, provides insights into students' acquisition and retention of information. The KGH posits that attempts to equalise knowledge within a community by releasing new information into it often either has no such effect, or even worsens knowledge inequities. The...

• African American educators' perspectives on the advanced placement opportunity gap

  1/1/08 - DeVance Taliaferro, Jocelyn, DeCuir-Gunby, Jessica T.

  This study examines perspectives of educators on the advanced placement opportunity gap for African American students. Using interviews with 11 educators from 10 high schools, we explored their perceptions regarding the impact of a local academic achievement program on the enrollment of African American students in honors and advanced placement courses. Results of the analysis suggest that there is a perceived and real gap in the participation of African American students in AP courses...

• African American Male Adolescents, Schooling (and Mathematics): Deficiency, Rejection, and Achievement

  1/1/06 - Stinson, David W.

  The academic achievement gap, particularly the mathematics achievement gap, between Black students and their White counterparts has been well documented with numerical facts. As mathematics education researchers attempt to develop theories and practices that assist in eradicating the gap, they would serve mathematics education well if they would expand the sphere of their research into the sociocultural arena. To assist in expanding the sphere, this article presents a review of key...

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  An early look at the Economic Stimulus Package and the public schools: Perspectives from state leaders

  1/7/09 - Center on Education Policy,

  "This report looks at the early efforts of states to implement the elementary and secondary education provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The findings are drawn from a survey of officials in state education agencies and governors’ offices in 44 states and the District of Columbia. Key findings concern the financial condition of state education budgets, progress toward meeting the reform assurances, interest in national content standards and the Race to the Top...

• Bridging the Gaps in Perspectives on Equity in Mathematics Education

  1/1/08 - Luienski, Sarah Theule, Guiterrez, Rochelle

  In this rejoinder, the authors further detail their positions on the role of gaps analyses in mathematics education research as outlined in the previous 2 articles. They clarify areas of agreement and probe areas of disagreement, focusing on the benefits and dangers they see in either emphasizing educational disparities between groups or shifting the focus to the advancement of particular groups. The authors discuss ways in which their backgrounds have shaped their differences in...