Achievement Gap Websites
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
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
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/pubs/rp/RP_Winter04.pdf
Hakuta and August, editors; National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1998. The entire text is available online.
The Education of Language Minority Students
http://www.stanford.edu/~hakuta/Docs/CivilRightsCommission.htm
An article on the advantages of bilingual education
Key Policy Milestones in the Education of English Language Learners
http://www.stanford.edu/~hakuta/Docs/rockefeller/Rockefeller.htm
Ways to improve the education of language minority students