The Achievement Gap

What is the Achievement Gap? The goal of this site is to provide a short overview of research and policy around the achievement gap. The links are aimed to give a jump-start to those seeking research and strategies, rather than to provide a complete resource. | A short introduction | Tutorial from ASCD | What Can Schools Do |
About Data
	What does it look like? What does it show us?			Conferences and Topical Information Resources on Raising Achievement and Closing the Gap, in North Carolina: March 26-28, 2007. Closing the Achievement Gap in America's Public Schools: The No Child Left Behind Act - Testimony by Kati Haycock (2005). Closing the Gap: Keeping Students in School, from ASCD (2006).
	NCLB and Data
Factors which Correlate with the Achievement Gap
	General Information		ELL
	Ethnicity		Gender
	SES		Special Education
Solution Strategies
	Formative Assessment		Instructional Strategies
	Restructuring		Class Size
	Leadership		Tracking
	ELL/ESL		Tools
	Ethnicity		Special Education
	SES

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