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• Learning Academies: Module 6, Assessment

  1/1/05 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,

  Conducting sound assessments is a necessary part of exemplary teaching. Assessments not only evaluate student learning, they serve to guide subsequent instruction. This module looks at the construction of both quality assessments and student learning outcomes, examines multiple ways to assess learning, explores the use of rubrics for assessing student work, and highlights key elements of performance assessment tasks.

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  Living the Dream in the Promised Land: Features of Highly Successful Schools that Serve Students of Color

  1/1/07 - Nancy J. Harris-Murri, Equity Alliance at ASU

  Millions of children historically have failed in American school systems, particularly children of color from urban and rural low socioeconomic status (SES). Schools cannot change poverty or the living conditions of those children, however schools can change ways to reach and teach all children. This exemplar summarizes the High Performance All Students Success Schools Model (HiPass Model), which describes features of highly successful high-poverty elementary schools as documented by Dr. Jim...

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  Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions

  1/5/09 - Shernaz B. García, Alba A. Ortiz, Equity Alliance at ASU

  This practitioner brief deals with culturally and linguistically responsive prereferral interventions for preventing disproportionate representation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students in special education. It applies to all parents and teachers of CLD students. Disproportionate representation of students from CLD backgrounds in special education has been a persistent concern in the field for more than 30 years. A key question in dealing with disproportionality in special...

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  Principals of Inclusive Schools

  1/10/09 - Christine Salisbury , Gail McGregor, Equity Alliance at ASU

  School leaders play an important role in promoting and sustaining change in schools. Without their efforts, schools cannot change or improve to become places where all students are welcome, and where all students learn essential academic and non-academic lessons in preparation for life in the community. Nowhere is this initiative more important than in urban schools where many students have been left behind, shunted aside, or asked to learn with poor or inadequate buildings, materials, and...

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  Understanding English Language Learners' Needs and the Language Acquisition Process

  1/10/09 - Alicja Rieger, Ewa McGrail, Equity Alliance at ASU

  This OnPoint tackles the complexity of English language learners’ needs from our point of view. We are native Polish-speaking teacher educators who use our own experiences and knowledge as English language learners in methods courses that we teach in teacher education programs in the United States. We both were born and raised in Poland, and share our passion for our native language and culture with our students, who are either already practicing public school teachers or in the process of...

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  Key issue: Recruiting teachers for schools serving english language learners

  1/5/09 - Garcia, P., Potemski, A.

  As the number of ELLs continues to grow in a more diverse range of districts, education leaders will have to develop creative and comprehensive recruitment strategies to ensure that all ELLs in the district can be served by highly qualified teachers. This Key Issue includes strategies and resources that can help.

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  Learning from the Youth Opportunity Experience: Building delivery capacity in distressed communities

  1/3/09 - Harris, L.

  In 2000, the U.S. Department of Labor awarded significant Youth Opportunity (YO) Grants to 36 high-poverty urban, rural, and Native American communities. The grants were designed to serve all young people in these areas, regardless of income or connection to school or work. The YO grants provided the resources to establish comprehensive approaches at considerable scale. They were catalytic in launching important collaborations in these communities to connect systems, to leverage resources...

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  A guide to analyzing data from the Family Outcomes Survey

  1/18/09 - Melissa Raspa, Kathleen Hebbeler, Don Bailey

  The Family Outcomes Survey (FOS) provides a way for state and local programs serving young children to assess the extent to which families have achieved a variety of outcomes. This document provides suggestions on how to analyze the data from the survey; the analyses can then be used to plan for program improvement. The document is written for state agency staff, but many of the suggested analyses could be carried out at the local level as well.

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  Access to Pre-K education under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act

  1/31/10 - Education Law Center,

  "Under federal law, states are required to ensure that homeless children have equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as provided to other children and youths. This policy brief provides an overview of the law and its limitations and describes policies that can help increase the number of homeless children included in pre-k programs. It is intended to serve as a resource for state policy makers and advocates seeking to maximize...

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  Achieving Gender Equity in Public Education: A Scenario Planning Resource for Advocates, Policymakers and Practitioners

  1/16/10 - Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation, The Schott Center for Public and Early Education

  "This report reflects our recent efforts to understand how to ensure that the next generation of girls and boys enjoy respectful schools and classrooms in which they can grow and succeed. We want all children to have the benefits of an education that provides them with a full range of life options and helps them become decisionmakers and leaders. We hope this publication will serve as a useful discussion tool for organizations, foundations, and individuals interested in creating more...

• 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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  America's private public schools

  1/9/10 - Michael F. Petrilli, Janie Scull

  "In this report, we identify public schools whose doors are effectively closed to poor children. These institutions—generally found in wealthy urban enclaves or well-heeled suburbs—educate many of the children of America’s elite while proudly waving the “public school” flag. But they hardly embody the “common school” ideal. In fact, by exclusively serving well-off children, they are arguably more private—certainly more exclusive—than many elite private schools, which, after...

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  And the journey continues...Achieving cultural and linguistic competence in systems serving children and youth with special health care needs and their families

  1/2/09 - Tawara D. Goode, Wendy Jones, Clare Dunne, Suzanne Bronheim

  The following “postcards from the road” provide snapshots of the accomplishments of state and territorial programs in infusing cultural and linguistic competence in policies, practices and structures. Complete stories are presented in the section entitled, “How are the States and Territories Traveling?”

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  Answering Questions About What Works in Improving Low-Performing Schools and Districts

  1/16/09 - Ryan, Molly

  This report serves as a review of six research studies addressing school improvement.

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  Arrested Development: Addressing the School Discipline Crisis in Florida

  1/3/09 - Florida State Conference NAACP,

  Arresting Development: Addressing the School Discipline Crisis in Florida reveals the findings of these public hearings, which were held in five cities and covered six school districts: Pinellas/Hillsborough (St. Petersburg, FL), Duval (Jacksonville, FL), Palm Beach (West Palm Beach, FL), Broward (Fort Lauderdale, FL), and Miami-Dade (Miami, FL). This report is intended to document the compelling and informative discussions that occurred among the hundreds of hearing participants—parents...

• Barriers to School Involvement: Are Immigrant Parents Disadvantaged?

  1/1/09 - Turney, Kristin, Kao, Grace

  Parental involvement at school offers unique opportunities for parents, and this school-based involvement has important implications for children's academic and behavioral outcomes. The authors used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (National Center for Education Statistics, 2001) to examine race and immigrant differences in barriers to parental involvement at school. Minority immigrant parents, compared with native-born parents, reported more barriers to...