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  Facilitating transformation: A framework for culturally responsive cognitive coaching in schools

  1/5/10 - Mulligan, Elaine, Kozeski, Elizabeth B., Equity Alliance at ASU

  "This coaching framework provides the intent, structure, and processes for providing coaching support to participating NIUSI-LeadScape principals. NIUSI-LeadScape is a federally-funded grant project to support the transformative work of inclusive schools. This project works to provide school leaders with the tools, professional learning, and ongoing dialogue necessary to transform school practices so that all students have full access to educational opportunities. The NIUSI-LeadScape...

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  Addressing Diversity in Schools: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

  1/24/09 - Heraldo Richards, Ayanna Brown, Timothy Forde, Equity Alliance at ASU

  This practitioner brief deals with how to address educational needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. It applies to all parents and teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children. The authors of this article suggest that as more and more students from diverse backgrounds populate 21st century classrooms and efforts mount to identify effective methods to teach these students, the need for pedagogical approaches that are culturally responsive intensifies...

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  Systemic Change Framework – Rubrics Assessment Handbook

  1/4/07 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,, Equity Alliance at ASU

  The rubrics in this publication have been designed to help your inclusive schools network assess their current status and identify specific goals for the coming year. Based on the systemic change framework and vignettes from the National Institute for Urban School Improvement’s (NIUSI) network of schools, these rubrics provide a yardstick for measuring your improvement efforts.

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  Diversity: School, Family, & Community Connections

  1/5/09 - Martha Boethel

  This is the third in a series of reports to help local school, community, and family leaders obtain useful research-based information about key educational issues. This synthesis focuses specifically on three categories: race or ethnicity, culture (including language), and socioeconomic status. The report also explores barriers to involvement for minority and low-income families, strategies that have been used to address those barriers, and recommendations that local educational leaders can...

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  Interventions for adolescent struggling readers: A meta-analysis with implications for practice

  1/10/09 - Scammacca, N., Roberts, G., Vaughn. S. , Edmonds, M. , Wexler, J., Reutebuch, C. K., Torgesen, J. K.

  This 2007 brief is a meta-analysis of thirty-one studies on interventions targeting adolescents struggling with reading. Specifically, it looks at how effective interventions are for struggling adolescent readers, what the specific impact of reading interventions are on reading comprehension, and what specific impact reading interventions have for students with learning disabilities. The analysis further categories study findings depending on the type of reading intervention, the grade...

• A "Gap-Gazing" Fetish in Mathematics Education? Problematizing Research on the Achievement Gap

  1/1/08 - Guiterrez, Rochelle

  A substantial amount of research in mathematics education seeks to document disparities in achievement between middle-class White students and students who are Black, Latina/Latino, First Nations, English language learners, or working class. I outline the dangers in maintaining an achievement-gap focus. These dangers include offering little more than a static picture of inequities, supporting deficit thinking and negative narratives about students of color and working-class students...

• A "gap-gazing" fetish in mathematics education? Problematizing research on the achievement gap

  1/1/08 - Gutiérrez, Rochelle

  A substantial amount of research in mathematics education seeks to document disparities in achievement between middle-class White students and students who are Black, Latina/Latino, First Nations, English language learners, or working class. I outline the dangers in maintaining an achievement-gap focus. These dangers include offering little more than a static picture of inequities, supporting deficit thinking and negative narratives about students of color and working-class students...

• A "Gap-Gazing" Fetish In Mathematics Education? Problematizing Research on the Achievement Gap

  1/1/08 - Gutiérrez, Rochelle

  A substantial amount of research in mathematics education seeks to document disparities in achievement between middle-class White students and students who are Black, Latina/Latino, First Nations, English language learners, or working class. I outline the dangers in maintaining an achievement-gap focus. These dangers include offering little more than a static picture of inequities, supporting deficit thinking and negative narratives about students of color and working-class students...

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  A Child Outcome Framework for the Early Childhood Transition Process

  1/19/09 - Beth Rous, Gloria Harbin, Katherine McCormick

  "One of the major service componenets under IDEA for young children with disabilities and their families is specific planning and support for transition as children exit Part C services and enter other programs."

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  A parent's guide for response to intervention (RTI)

  1/5/09 - Cortiella, C.

  This 2006 brief provides an overview of the RTI process and describes how it is implemented in schools. This resource would be useful to parents who are looking for more information about the RTI process and provides specific questions that parents can ask at their children's schools.

• A Reading Program to Narrow the Achievement Gap

  1/1/08 - Erickson, Elizabeth

  Due to the No Child Left Behind legislation (PL 107-110, reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act), schools are looking for reading programs that will push students into reading proficiency on standardized tests. Programs tend to be expensive, require specific training, and often require buying that company's materials. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

• Academic achievement of low birthweight children at age 11: The role of cognitive abilities at school entry

  1/1/01 - Breslau, N., Johnson, E. O., Lucia, V. C.

  Examined the extent to which deficits in academic achievement in low birthweight (LBW) children at age 11 are explained by deficits in cognitive abilities at school entry. Data come from a longitudinal study of a stratified sample of LBW and normal birthweight (NBW) children from an innercity and middle class suburbs in the Detroit area. Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery--Revised was used to measure reading and math at age 11. WISC-R and specific neuropsychologic tests were...

• Accountability Standards, and the Growing Achievement Gap: Lessons from the Past Half-Century

  1/1/06 - Harris, Douglas N., Herrington, Carolyn D.

  The rise of accountability policies during the early 1990s coincided with an increase in the achievement gap between white and minority students, reversing decades of steady improvement in outcome equity. This article explores the policies that helped to reduce the achievement gap before 1990, the effects of the subsequent shift toward accountability, and what can be learned from past successes to guide the future development of accountability systems. An extensive review of research...

• Accountability, Standards, and the Growing Achievement Gap: Lessons from the Past Half-Century

  1/1/06 - Harris, Douglas N., Herrington, Carolyn D.

  The rise of accountability policies during the early 1990s coincided with an increase in the achievement gap between white and minority students, reversing decades of steady improvement in outcome equity. This article explores the policies that helped to reduce the achievement gap before 1990, the effects of the subsequent shift toward accountability, and what can be learned from past successes to guide the future development of accountability systems. An extensive review of research...

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  Alternative Schools and Programs for Public School Students At Risk of Educational Failure: 2007-08

  1/31/10 - Priscilla Rouse Carver, Laurie Lewis

  "This First Look report presents data from a recent district Fast Response Survey System (FRSS) survey about alternative schools and programs available to students during the 2007-08 school year. Alternative schools and programs are specifically designed to address the educational needs of students at risk of school failure in a setting apart from that of the regular public school. They can be administered by the district or an entity other than the district. The study includes information...

• An Early Gap in Black-White Mathematics Achievement: Holding School and Home Accountable in an Affluent City School District

  1/1/03 - Hughes, Sherick A.

  This article uses descriptive statistics and regression modeling to test effects of ethnicity and socioeconomic status on third-graders. Results implicate ethnicity and socioeconomic status as a significant influence on third-graders' mathematics scores. Findings suggest that strong social forces sustain the Black-White mathematics achievement gap even when affluent school resources are available. Results also suggest a need for the observed affluent districts and Black families in them to...