Closing the Achievement Gap
Briefs
- 09/28/2007
- Achievement Trap: The Success and Struggle of America's High-Achieving Lower-Income Students with Kati Haycock, Director, Education Trust, Susan Traiman, Director of Education and Workforce Policy, Business Roundtable, Joshua Wyner, Vice President, Programs, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (forum brief)
- 06/22/2007
- The Role of Career and Technical Education in High School Reform: State Efforts to Integrate CTE with Rigorous Standards with Patrick Ainsworth, Assistant Superintendent for Secondary, Postsecondary & Adult Education, California Department of Education, Kathy Oliver, Assistant State Superintendent, Maryland Department of Education, and Alex Harris, Senior Policy Analyst, National Governors Association (Forum Brief and webcast)
- 05/10/2007
- The Role of Career and Technical Education in High School Reform: Career and Technical Education Responding to Industry Needs with Phyllis Eisen, Vice President, The Manufacturing Institute and Executive Director, The Center for Workforce Success, Duane Crum, California State Director, Project Lead the Way (forum brief and webcast)
- 04/13/2007
- Opening the Door to the American Dream: Increasing Higher Education Access and Success for Immigrants with Wendy Erisman, Senior Research Analyst and Director of Evaluation, Institute for Higher Education Policy, and Deborah A. Santiago, Vice President for Policy and Research, Excelencia in Education, and Margie McHugh, Co Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Migration Policy Institute (forum brief)
- 09/22/2006
- Citizen Schools: Putting Students on a Pathway to Academic and Social Success with Eric Schwarz, President and Co-Founder of Citizen Schools, Lara Fabiano, Senior Researcher, Policy Studies Associates, and Chris Harris, Campus Director, Citizen Schools, McKinley Middle School, New Brunswick, New Jersey (forum brief)
- 05/19/2006
- Career and Technical Education's Role in High School Reform with the Association for Career and Technical Education (Forum brief)
- 03/17/2006
- The Toolbox Revisited: Paths to Degree Completion from High School Through College with Cliff Adelman, Senior Research Analyst, Department of Education (forum brief)
- 06/13/2003
- Education Retention Issues for Latino High School and College Aged Youth, with Roberto Suro, Director of the Pew Hispanic Center, Richard Fry, Senior Research Associate, Pew Hispanic Center, Harry Holzer, Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Center. (Forum Brief)
- 06/6/2003
- Diverse Schools: Building Strong Communities, In-School and Beyond, with Eileen Kugler, Author, Donald Clausen, Principal, Annandale High School, Virginia, and Michael Hanna, Principal, Storm Lake High School, Storm Lake, Iowa. (Forum Brief)
- 11/22/2002
- Minority Student Achievement Network, with Robert Smith, Superintendent, Arlington Co. VA Public Schools, Allan Alson, Superintendent, Evanston, IL Public Schools, and Rossi Ray-Taylor, Superintendent, Ann Arbor, MI Public Schools. (Forum Brief)
- 9/23/2002
- Racial Inequality In Special Education: Implications For Idea’s Reauthorization, is a briefing on issues confronting minority youth in special education with an emphasis on implications for the upcoming reauthorization of IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act). The briefing features research from The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University called, Racial Inequity in Special Education. Featured speakers include Gary Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project (CRP), and Daniel J. Losen, CRP Legal and Policy Research Associate, Darren Woodruff, Senior Research Analyst, American Institutes for Research, and Harvard Law Professor and CRP co-director Christopher Edley Jr. (Forum Brief)
- 6/7/2002
- Closing The Achievement Gap in Urban Schools, with Mike Casserly, Executive Director, Council of Great City Schools and Fred Doolittle and Jason Snipes Manpower Development Research Corporation. (Forum Brief)
- 4/26/2002
- March Toward Excellence: School Success and Minority Student Achievement in Department of Defense Schools, Claire Smrekar and Debra Owens, Peabody Center for Education Policy, Vanderbilt University, and Taffy Corrigan, Assistant Associate Director for Education, U.S. Department of Defense Education Activities. (Forum Brief)
- 2/14/2002
- Learning through Teaching in an After-School Pedagogical Laboratory, Presenter Michèle Foster, Professor, Center for Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University, discussed effective research-based teaching and learning practices and literacy development for African American middle and high school students. (Forum Brief)
- 11/19/2001
- Repeat of The Release of Raising Minority Academic Achievement: A Compendium of Education Programs and Practices , with Donna Walker James, American Youth Policy Forum; and Precious Jackson, an AVID graduate and current undergraduate at Howard University. (Forum Brief)
- 5/14/2001
- It Takes A City: Getting Serious About Urban School Reform, with Paul Hill, Research Professor in the University of Washington's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. (Forum Brief)
- 3/2/2001
- New Research on Minorities and Special Education: Implications for Federal Law and Policy, with Darren Woodruff, Senior Research Analyst at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), Tom Parrish, Managing Research Scientist, AIR, Jay Heubert, Associate Professor of Education at Columbia University, Teacher's College, Tom Hehir, Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Gary Orfield, Co-Director, The Civil Rights Project. (Forum Brief)
- 11/29/2000
- The Psychology and Education of African American Children and Youth, with Dr. Thomas A. Parham. (Breakfast Meeting)
- 1/7/2000
- The Impact of High Stakes Testing Policies On Minority and Disadvantaged Students: Legal and Policy Implications of New Research, with Lauren Resnick, Director, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh; Linda McNeil, Director, Center for Education at Rice University; and Gary Natriello, Professor of Education, Columbia University; and Christopher Edley and Gary Orfield, Co-directors of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, and Jay Heubert, Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. (Forum Brief)
- 2/27/1998
- The Retention and High Stakes Testing: Will They Result in Improvements in Urban Student Achievement? with Mitchell Chester, Executive Director of Accountability and Assessment for the School District of Philadelphia; Stephanie Robinson, Principal Partner, The Education Trust; Richard Wenning, Director of Educational Accountability, District of Columbia Public Schools; and Dennis Doyle, education consultant and writer. (Forum Brief)
- 3/14/1997
- Can Current Education Reform Efforts Close the Growing Achievement Gap? with Kati Haycock, Director, The Education Trust. (Forum Brief)
- 6/2/1995
- Myths about International Test Score Comparisons, with Iris Rotberg, Program Director for Research, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation. (Forum Brief)
Trip Reports
- 11/7/2007-
11/9/2007 - State Policy Trip to Little Rock, AR, November 7-9, 2007: Expanding Advanced Placement Participation and Building Public Will. Highlights from this trip include meetings with T. Kenneth James, AR Commissioner of Education; Senator Jim Argue, Chair of the AR Senate Education Committee; Kathryn Hazelett, Governor Mike Beebe's Education Policy Advisor; Steve Floyd, Director of the AR Department of Higher Education; as well as other policy and education experts at the state level. In addition, we visited the historic Little Rock Central High School and the Wilbur Mills University Study School. (Trip Report)
- 4/22/2005
- Latin American Youth Center's YouthBuild Program. One day field trip in Washington, DC to explore the work of this dynamic, multi-faceted community-based organization and its impact on young people. (Trip Report)
- 3/17/2003 -
3/19/2003 - Education, Community and Workforce Development in Rural Mississippi, Field Trip to the Delta Region of Mississippi (Trip Report)
Publications
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RAISING MINORITY ACADEMIC
ACHIEVEMENT This report is the culmination of a detailed, two-year effort to find, summarize and analyze evaluations of school and youth programs that show gains for minority youth across a broad range of academic achievement indicators. The report provides an accessible resource for policymakers and practitioners interested in promoting the academic success of racial and ethnic minorities from early childhood through advanced postsecondary study. |
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THE FORGOTTEN HALF
REVISITED: American Youth and Young Families, 1988-2008 Updates the 1988 reports of the William T. Grant Foundation Commission on Work, Family and Citizenship. Includes essays and the latest data on employment, youth and community development, school reform, higher education, service. Essayists include Thomas Bailey (Teacher's College, Columbia University), Martin Blank (Institute for Educational Leadership), Carol Emig (Child Trends), Lawrence Gladieux and Watson Scott Swail (The College Board), Samuel Halperin (American Youth Policy Forum), Harold Howe II (former U.S. Commissioner of Education), John F. Jennings and Diane Stark Rentner (Center on Education Policy), Karen Pittman (International Youth Foundation), Shirley Sagawa (The White House) and Daniel Yankelovich (Public Agenda). |