Achievement Gap Websites

4 Steps to Closing the Achievement Gap
http://www.ncrel.org/gap/library/text/schoolsmatter.htm
An article that outlines effectively closing the gap

Closing the Achievement Gap Requires Multiple Solutions
http://www.nwrel.org/cnorse/infoline/may97/article5.html
An article that lists ways to address the achievement gap

The Critical Period for Second Language Acquisition

http://www.stanford.edu/~hakuta/Publications/(1999)%20-%20CONFOUNDED%20AGE%20LINGUISTIC%20AND%20COGNITIVE%20FACTORS%20IN%20.pdf.
Effects of Poverty on Teaching and Learning
http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/poverty/7/
Behaviors of students who experience poverty and strategies for working with them.

Eliminating Racism in the Classroom
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/racism_morgan.html

Help Students Put on their Thinking Hats
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/voice/voice102.shtml

“It Takes More than Testing….Closing the Achievement Gap…”
http://www.masb.org/pdf/spreportsum.pdf
An article on effectively closing the achievement gap

Meet Einstein
http://www.readaloudva.org/einstein.htm
Resources on reading aloud and why it works

“Scaffolding Learning”
http://www.myread.org/scaffolding.htm
Adapted from Strategic Reading: Guiding Students to Lifelong Literacy by Jeffrey Wilhelm, Tanya Baker, and Julie Dube.

“A Stark Race Gap – in Kid’s Books”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0817/p11s01-legn.html
An article on how the increase of African American authors sparks African American students to read because they can better relate to the stories

Strategies for Teaching Reading in the Middle School
http://www.myread.org/scaffolding.htm

Achievement Gap of English Language Learners

The Critical Period for Second Language Acquisition
http://www.stanford.edu/~hakuta/Docs/Critical%20Evidence.pdf

English Language Learners: Boosting Achievement

http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Journals_and_Publications/Research_Points/RP_Winter04.pdf