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Video Library
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The Critical Importance of Staying On Track: Findings from CCSR and MDRC Studies
Janet Quint
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2006 Conference
Category: Practice
Tags: transition to high school, 9th grade, drop-out, instruction
Social and Educational Equity:Three Exciting New Campaigns
Leslie Cornfeld, Mark Edwards, Ralph Smith
Nov 2012
tags: youth, truancy, literacy, opportunity
Campaigns can be bridges from research to policy and practice. This forum highlights the work of three exciting new campaigns for social and educational equity: the NYC Mayorâs Interagency Task Force on Truancy, Chronic Absenteeism & School Engagement, Opportunity Nation, and the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading.
Envisioning a System: A Pathways to Prosperity Forum
Ronald Ferguson, Keith Westrich, Susan Lange, Christyanna Egun and Melissa Scibelli.
May 2011
tags: supports, community, employment
Massachusetts efforts to engage employers and promote opportunities for multiple education pathways and work-based learning. A panel moderated by Ronald Ferguson featuring: Keith Westrich, Susan Lange, Christyanna Egun and Melissa Scibelli.
Helping Parents Manage Stress And Promoting Healthy Child Development
William Beardslee, Harvard Medical School
June 2011
tags: parenting, poverty, heathcare, mental health, stress
William Beardslee discusses early interventions by developmental phase to promote mental health. He highlights the importance of policies that support parents and communities and the inextricable links between poverty and healthcare injustice. Beardslee also stresses the need to help parents become partners in their child's wellbeing and to minimize their role as simply receivers of information from doctors and healthcare professionals.
Home Visiting & Enabling Effective Parenting
Robert Ammerman, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center
tags: parenting, hospital home visitation, poverty,
Robert Ammerman discusses home visiting programs from the lens of one organization, Every Child Succeeds. These programs help high-risk parents, by promoting and assisting with healthy pregnancies, proper child development, and effective parenting. He discusses field work, new developments, and implications.
HomeWorks:The Teacher Home Visit Program
Karen Kalish, Teacher Home Visit Program, St. Louis
tags: parenting, teacher home visitation
Karen Kalish discusses a teacher home visit program, which aims at getting parents involved in their child's education and addresses the skills gap plaguing the U.S. economy. The program measures attendance, parental involvement, and test scores, and focuses on getting parents and teachers talking about academics. Kalish gives tips for teachers giving home visits including etiquette and safety.
Documentary Project: America's Promise
Michele Stephenson and Joseph Brewster, Rada Film Group
tags: parenting, race, education
What does it take to overcome the racial achievement gap? Michele Stephenson and Joseph Brewster discuss this question in their documentary film, Achievement Gap. This film follows two African American boys in Brooklyn and looks at what it takes to overcome the racial achievement gap in education. The filmmakers also discuss the powerful role of documentary film in social movements.
Framing Public Discourse on Parenting
Tiffany Manuel, Frameworks Institute
tags: parenting, community, social change, public policy
Tiffany Manuel discusses framing parental practice for public engagement and social change. She highlights key challenges to framing parental practice, including the fact that discourse related to education is often times myopic, looking only at extremes. Manuel also believes a key to framing is to draw back the lens and enable people to understand the full context of parental practice; this context includes not just the parents but also the housing situation, healthcare, and community resources available.
Synthesis and Remarks
Heather Weiss, Harvard Family Research Project
tags: parenting, community
Heather Weiss discusses the importance of parent, family, and community engagement to enhance learning and strategies to achieve systemic change. She reframes the definition of PFCE to include shared responsibility, continuity, and context.
The typical and atypical reading brain
Nadine Gaab, Harvard Medical School and Childrens Hospital, Boston
tags: parenting, cognitive ability, cognitive development, early childhood, literacy, instructional improvement, reading, remediation
Because of links between early brain development and later reading success, Nadine Gaab makes the case for running brain measures on young children, to identify dyslexia, improve remediation methods, inform education policy, and allow children to reach their "intellectual potential."
Research on Racial Differences in Learning
Richard Nisbett, University of Michigan
tags: parenting, IQ, heritability, social class, intelligence, environment, family background, intervention, race
Nisbett argues that IQ is determined in part by genetics and in part by the environment in which a child is reared, citing several twin studies as evidence. He also asserts that the heritability of IQ is dependent on the child' social class, but heritability places no limits on malleability of intelligence. Consequently, the environment is especially crucial since it can be directly affected by programs, teachers, and parents.
What Parents Should Know about Adolescent Development: The Influence of Schools on Adolescent Behavior and Risk-Taking
Stephanie Jones, Harvard Graduate School of Education
tags: parenting, adolescence, development, school, environment, adults, relationships, risk-taking, transitions, middle school, peers, supervision, stress, regulation, socialization, social norms
Stephanie Jones discusses the fundamental developmental tasks of adolescence, the influence of schools on adolescent behavior and risk-taking, and the implications of her research on parenting. She narrows-in on the context of the school environment and the relationships that adolescents build with adults as especially critical factors in adolescence.
Lessons from Youth Development Research
Richard Lerner, Tufts University
tags: parenting, youth culture, adolescence, contribution, life skills, leadership, relationships, engagement, school
Richard Lerner summarizes findings of the 4H Study of Positive Youth Development. Based on the study, he highlights five characteristics that define a thriving young person. When a young person develops high levels of these characteristics, he or she becomes more engaged in school, less prone to problem behaviors, and able to make a positive contribution to the world.
What Parents Should Know About Adolescent Development: The Role of Schools
Steven Sheldon, Johns Hopkins University
tags: parenting, adolescence, school, development, influence, communication, expectation, attainment, homework, practice, advisor
Steven Sheldon discusses the roles of parents and schools for adolescent students. He argues that parents still matter in adolescence, but their role shifts from involvement at school to involvement at home. He also suggests practices for connecting parents and schools through interactive homework and evening advisements.
Racial Dynamics in Multiracial High Schools
John Diamond, Harvard Graduate School of Education
tags: parenting, race, performance expectations, oppositional culture, white hypothesis, peer dynamics, status beliefs, tracking, social capital, hierarchy, classes
John Diamond discusses how race matters in the experiences of high school students and how students internalize and respond to status beliefs and expectations. He suggests mechanisms to affect race dynamics in schools such as rethinking tracking systems and building social capital in students and parents.
Helping Families Support the Language and Literacy Skills of English Language Learners: Effective Practices and Future Directions
Mariela Paez, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
tags: parenting, intervention, ELL, bilingual, reading, language, linguistic, Spanish, literarcy, language
Mariela Paez describes a research-based intervention to improve oral language development for ELL students. Her program combines the English language classroom with the Spanish language home using mechanisms to support both parents and teachers.
Empowering Parents: Sustaining the Gains of Early Childhood Education
Portia Kennel, Ounce of Prevention Fund, Chicago
tags: parenting, disadvantage, engagement, health, implementation, poverty, school quality, early childhood, school readiness
Portia Kennel discusses how Educare early learning centers help low-income parents provide their young children the skills, knowledge, and experiences they need to succeed in school. Educare works to enhance the parent-child relationship, the parent's role in the child's development, and the parent's role in advocating for quality schooling.
Mobilizing partners, communities and families to build family strengths, promote optimal development and reduce child abuse and neglect
Judy Langford, Center for the Study for Social Policy
tags: parenting, cognitive development, funding, early childhood
Judy Langford talks about efforts to disseminate among states and localities the Strengthening Families framework, which is based on promoting family protective factors to help reduce child maltreatment and improve child outcomes.
The Strengthening Families framework
Jamilah R. Jordan, Chicago State University
tags: parenting, engagement, family background, immigrant youth, implementation, minority students, mobility, network, poverty, Hispanic, early childhood
Jamilah Jor'dan discusses implementation of the Strengthening Families framework in Illinois. In line with her challenge to the audience--to deliver information to parents in a language they understand so ideas can become "beneficial" to families--Jor'dan relates such successes as "parent cafes," confabs, and online communities.
How Childrens Hands Can Help Them Learn Language
Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago
tags: parenting, cognitive ability, poverty, early childhood
Susan Goldin-Meadow presents research that the amount children gesture--for example, point to objects, is strongly related to their language development. She encourages parents to gesture as a model to their children, and to directly encourage their children to gesture.
The Three-to-Third Program
Kara Lysy, Harvard Graduate School of Education (Three-to-Third)
tags: parenting, community, cultural groups, engagement, immigrant students, immigrant youth, minority students, early childhood
Longtime Boston Public Schools teacher Kara Lysy shares the challenges and possibilities of teacher home-visiting in the Three-to-Third Program.
Introducing College Bound
William Jackson, Great Schools, Inc.
tags: parenting
Bill Jackson talks about--and shows examples of--the emerging College Bound initiative to promote parent knowledge and skills through practical mini-lessons delivered by digital media.
Mechanisms by which Parent Behaviors Mediate Child Outcomes
Ursula Johnson, University of North Texas
tags: parenting, early childhood, cognitive development, literacy
Ursula Johnson discusses a home-based play and learning strategy intervention program that teaches parents how to develop a more responsive interactive style with their young children. By learning how to identify and appropriately respond to their child's signals during playtime, parents are able to positively affect their child's language and early literacy skills.
The role of parent input in early numeracy
Elizabeth Gunderson, University of Chicago
tags: parenting, early childhood, cognitive development, numeracy
Elizabeth Gunderson discusses her research on parent involvement in early numeracy, and explains that numerical development begins at home, before a child starts school. Parents can support this development by using "number talk" that involves counting and labeling real objects.
Positive Care of Infants and Toddlers: A Cornerstone for addressing the Achievement Gap
Carol Leitschuh, University of Minnesota
tags: parenting, early childhood, cognitive development
Carol Leitschuh talks about the importance of movement and children's delight in their early developmental accomplishments. She explains how movement and play are how young babies learn, and shares best practices for how parents and caregivers should intervene to best develop the minds of young children.
New Directions in Family Engagement in Education
M. Elena Lopez, Harvard Family Research Project
tags: parenting, engagement, implementation, lack of information, school resources, trust
M. Elena Lopez discusses new directions for creating family-school relationships, focusing specifically on how to best share student data with families. She outlines three core principles for how data is best shared: 1) access, 2) understanding, 3) action, and uses information from a college and career readiness framework in use by New Visions for Public Schools to show what good data sharing can look like in practice.
Lets Talk It Makes a Difference: An Oral Language Development Campaign that Empowers Parents
Jennifer Baily, Agenda for Children Literacy Initiative, Cambridge
tags: parenting, early childhood, literacy
Jennifer Baily shares information on the Let's Talk Campaign, whose goal is to ensure all children and families in Cambridge will be able to read. The key messages that the campaign stresses are that learning begins at birth, and parents need to talk with their children and read with them as much as possible. She outlines several techniques on how to best accomplish these goals, and ends by discussing specific components of the program.
Communication Strategies for Reaching Parents
Rocio Galarza, Sesame Workshop
tags: parenting, engagement, family background, lack of information, early childhood
Rocio Galarza discusses the Sesame Workshop model of parent outreach, explaining how it starts with a needs assessment to figure out what issues researchers and parents think should be highlighted. She then focus on several specific outreach initiatives that Sesame Workshop has developed to help meet the needs of parents, including the Learning is Everywhere initiative and others that empower both children and their families.
SES and Neural Function in Childhood
Margaret Sheridan, Harvard Medical School and Childrens Hospital, Boston
tags: parenting, socioeconomic status, stress, health, prefrontal cortex, brain development
In her research Sheridan explores the impact of early life experiences that are a product of socioeconomic status on the prefrontal cortex, which controls behavior, working memory and inhibition. She asks two specific questions in her research: Is there an association between neural function in the prefrontal cortex and socioeconomic status in childhood? Does language exposure mediate those findings if they exist?
Rethinking the Importance of Early Developmental and Academic Skills in Predicting Achievement Gaps and Childrens Outcomes
David Grissmer, University of Virginia
tags: parenting, achievement gap, environment, development, myelination, academic outcomes, neural mechanisms
Grissmer seeks to answer three key questions in his presentation through consideration of neuroscience, environment and development: 1. What are the most important early skills for parents, out of school programs and schools to develop in their children that will improve their long term outcomes? 2. What neural mechanisms might explain the link between these early skills and later outcomes? 3. How might these skills be developed in a cost-effective manner?
Family Processes that Support School Readiness
Susan Landry, University of Texas, Houston
tags: parenting, poverty, health, attachment relationships, socio-cultural theory, proximal development, contingent responsiveness, reciprocal parenting
Landry explains the findings of a descriptive longitudinal study focused on school readiness skills (language, attention, etc), which uses data from the first 8 of 16 consecutive years that children were followed. Landrys team is particularly interested in the role of the environment in poverty-homes, looking for positive influences in childs longitudinal outcomes. They evaluate whether the role of the environment is different for children who were born biologically healthy, full-term into poverty homes verses those born at-risk biologically. Can positive, stimulating, nurturing home environment support each equally well?
Nutrition for Healthy Child and Youth Development
Steven Gortmaker, Harvard School of Public Health
tags: parenting, health, nutrition, physical education, parenting, curriculum
How do you create healthier environments in all the settings where kids spend time? Gortmakers research is focused on improving nutrition and physical activity in whole populations not individuals. He discusses programs developed for preschool, middle school and communities, as well as policy and program interventions that make it easier for parents and children to make choices around food and physical activity.
Marian Edelman, Children's Defense Fund and Ronald Ferguson, The Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University
The Power of Play
John Ratey, Harvard Medical School
tags: parenting, television, computers, youth, social media, engagement
John Ratey of the Harvard Medical School discusses how exercise, play, and movement are essential ingredients to helping children develop social, behavioral, and cognitive skills. In particular, he highlights the school system in Naperville, Illinois, which has created a rigorous physical education system to improve fitness for all students.
What Parents Should Know from Brain Research Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: William Dickens, Northeastern University and the Brookings Institution
Fostering Young Childrens Spatial Thinking
Susan Levine, University of Chicago
tags: parenting,spatial thinking, spatial knowledge, geometry, mathematics, early learning, malleable
Susan Levine discusses young childrens development of spatial thinking (sometimes referred to as geometry) as an important and often neglected aspect of early mathematics. She explains that the math knowledge that a child enters school with is a predictor of ability as far out as fifth grade and that strong spatial skills is important to a variety of stem disciplines including science, technology, and engineering. She argues that spatial thinking is malleable and that we can all become better in our spatial skills and the ways in which this can impact our lives. She discusses the findings and implications of a study examining parents' and children's knowledge and ability with spatial language.
What Parents Should Know about Developing Literacy & Mathematics Skills Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: Richard Murnane, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Helping Parents Manage Stress and Promoting Healthy Child Development Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: James Quane, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Based on the paper: An Empirically Derived Parenting Typology; Presentation delivered by Ron Ferguson for Jelani Mandara
Ronald Ferguson, The Achievement Gap Initiative
tags: parenting, parenting strategies, frameworks, race, parent-child relationship measures, parenting styles
Ron Ferguson presents the work of psychologist, Jelani Mendara, who wanted to find the best black way of parenting. He found, despite his predictions, that the same parenting strategies were best practices for black children as for white children, concluding that the traditional conception of authoritative parenting may be optimal for all American ethnic groups, even if it is not culturally normative for some.
What Parents Should Know about Adolescent Development Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: Rick Weissbourd, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Parenting Initiatives in the Boston Public School System
Michele Brooks, Parent University, Boston Public Schools
tags: parenting, family engagement, parent education, supporting student learning, partnerships
Michele Brooks defines herself as a practioner who seeks to implement and breathe life into research. She is the Assistant Superintendent for Family and Student Engagement in Boston Public Schools. Here she is providing overview of where Boston Public started and where they are with family engagement. The office does not engage families and does not plan programs, they are about practice and believe that engaging families is the job of every person in the entire system. The role of the office is to build the capacity to engage families in a meaningful and respectful way, to build the capacity of parents as partners. For example: For every instructional strategy there is a family engagement strategy to accompany it, i.e. when teacher teaches phonemic awareness there is a strategy for parents to use at home. Parent University is specifically focused on empowering parents in the role of their childrens education.
Organizational Structures for Reaching Parents Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: Ronald Ferguson, The Achievement Gap Initiative
Early Words a ReadBoston program
Theresa Lynn, ReadBoston, Boston
Theresa Lynn discusses Read Boston's Early Words program, whose goal is to increase language development in children from birth to four. She outlines the program's three approaches (increasing public awareness of the importances of talking with young children, model practices that encourage verbal exchange, and provide supports to specific populations). Specific strategies for increasing verbal interactions are also briefly discussed.
Parent Talk Panel Discussion
Home Visitation Programs Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: Julie Boatright Wilson, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Communication Strategies for Reaching Parents Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: Joe Blatt, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Faith Based Delivery of Social & Child Welfare Services: A Strength-Based Approach
Darrell Armstrong, Institute for Clergy Training (IFCT), Trenton
tags: parenting, community, family, engagement, childhood, home-visits, religion, faith, family, worship
Darrell Armstrong discusses the role of faith-based organizations in supporting parents. In his own practice, he uses relevant sermons, evidence-based programs, home visits, and baby blessing rituals to partner with parents in the development of their babies.
An American Promise? The documentary project and interactive website
Joe Brewster and Michelle Stephenson
January 2010
tags: parenting, network
Filmmakers and husband and wife, Joe Brewster and Michelle Stephanson, preview their powerful and personal documentary "An American Promise". The film chronicles the paths of two black boys growing up in New York, one of whom is their son.
The New Media /Social Networking Universe
Chris Hastings
tags: parenting, network, new media, social media, youth engagement
Hastings describes the wave of information that is a part of our daily lives. He offers suggestions on how to handle information overload and social media.
Content + Intent = Change: A formula for catalyzing social change using documentary film
Anna Lee
tags: parenting, network, community
Working Films activist, Anna Lee describes how documentary films can be used to as catalysts for social change by engaging audiences and motivating people to take action.
C.A.L.M. Society: Committed Advocates Leading Many
Andrea Lawful-Trainer
tags: parenting, network, advocacy, community
Community advocate, Andrea Lawful-Trainer, shares her experience in creating C.A.L.M. (Committed Advocates Leading Many). She discusses the challenges parents face when responding to assumptions and stereotypes associated with educational systems.
Brockton High School
Susan Szachowicz, Maria LeFort
April 2010
tags: High School, Instruction, literacy
The instructional leaders from Brockton High School attribute success to their literacy initiative supported by literacy charts in every classroom. They also focused on open response drills and fostered student engagement.
Whittier Technical High School
Katrina Hunter-Jensen, Kelly Fay, Patricia Lowell
tags: High School, Instruction
Whittier Technical High School leaders Hunter-Jensen, Fay, and Lowell share the details of their programs that significantly raised student achievement.
Randolph High School
William Conard, Laura Sullivan, Stephen LeClair
Randolph High School leaders Conard, Sullivan, and LeClair share the details of their programs that significantly raised student achievement.
High School Success Stories: How Did Some Exemplary High Schools in Greater Boston Raise Achievement and Narrow Test-Score Gaps?
Ronald Ferguson, Mary Skipper, Sharon Wolder
September 2010
tags: High School, Instruction, test score gaps
Ferguson presents key findings from the 2009 AGI report How High Schools Become Exemplary. Two leaders at featured schools, Skipper, TechBoston Academy and Wolder, Brockton High School shared their perspectives.
A Conversation with Accenture CEO Bill Green: Business Roles in Preparing a Future Workforce
Bill Green, Robert Schwartz
April 2009
tags: community, business, pathways, employment
Schwartz and Accenture CEO Green discuss workforce trends in the 21st century global economy, the role of business, and the importance of education. Green shares his personal philosophy of education: the need for accessibility, affordability, and accountability.
Generating Workforce Opportunity: How YEAR UP Enriches Businesses and Youth
Stacy Childress, Casey Recupero, Robert Schwartz
Recupero describes the YEAR UP program; a YEAR UP employer partner and employee alum share their different perspectives. Panelists discuss the challenges of scaling up a social enterprise like YEAR UP to meet the needs of employers and workers.
Building Capacity to Serve English Language Learners in U.S. Schools
Jana Echevarria, Nonie K. Lesaux, Donna Dooley, Paul Reville
tags: ELL, instruction
The panelists discuss how to meet the practice and policy challenges of educating English language learners, the fast growing segment of the k-12 student population. Lesaux argues that teachers are not adequately prepared to meet this challenge.
Yes We Can! A Panel on Closing the Achievement Gaps
Jane Waldfogel, Richard Nisbett, Ron Ferguson
March 2009
tags: Achievement gaps, test score gaps
Waldfogel examines the steady gains (1971-1988), stalled progress (1988-1999), and renewed progress (2000-2004) in closing achievement gaps. She links these trends to parental education, school segregation, and teacher quality patterns. Nisbett presents evidence that challenges the conclusions presented in the 1994 book "the Bell Curve". Ferguson summarizes key points from his book "Excellence with Equity".
Conference Welcome from Co-Chairs Ron Ferguson and Stacey Childress
June 2009
Welcome from Conference Co-Chairs Ronald Ferguson and Stacey Childress
Seven Strategic Propositions from the June 2008 AGI Conference
Ronald Ferguson
tags: School District Reform, leadership
Ferguson outlines seven strategic propositions for closing achievement gaps distilled from research and practice presentations at the 2008 AGI conference on district-wide education reform.
Why Improving High School Instruction is so Difficult
Jon Saphier
tags: High school, Instruction
Saphier contends that the central engines of instructional improvement require cohesive, long-term focus from a school leader and a leadership team that has the improvement of teaching and learning in each and every classroom as its mission.
Problems in High Schools that Attempt to Improve
Karin Chenoweth
Chenoweth shares observations from her work with two high schools: Elmont in a middle class neighborhood in New York state and Granger a high poverty school in Washington state.
Profiles of Progress and Performance at the Conference's Featured High Schools
Ferguson describes the characteristics of the fifteen exemplary high schools presented at the 2009 AGI conference. He shares their impressive gains in English Language Arts and Math.
Discussion and Q&A
Payzant adds his perspectives on school improvement to those presented by Ferguson, Saphier and Chenoweth.
Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School, Cincinnati, OH
Anthony Smith
The instructional team at Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School describes several key initiatives that have helped the school narrow its achievement gaps.
Naperville Central and North High Schools, Naperville, IL (session 1)
Jodi Wirt and Nina Menis
The Associate Superintendent and the Science Department Chair at Naperville Central and North High Schools describe how they developed and implemented a new curriculum to raise achievement.
Manor New Technology High School, Manor, TX
Steve Zipkes
tags: High school, Instruction, Project Based Learning
The school team from Manor New Technology High School describes how their project based learning model supports nine learning outcomes linked to specific skills.
Saphier and Murnane explore further the methods used by Robert Taft Information Technology High School, Naperville Central and North High Schools, and Manor New Technology High School to raise student achievement.
Brockton High School, Brockton, MA
Maria Lefort
Brockton High School leaders Szachowicz and LeFort share the details of their programs that significantly raised student achievement.
Worcester Technical High School, Worcester, MA
Sheila Harrity
The math team led by the principal share the results of Worcester's SUCCESS campaign which focuses on mastering open response and uses curriculum maps with target dates to guide instructional progress.
Brighton High School, Boston, MA
Joyce Campbell
tags: High School, Instruction, ELA
Brighton High School instructional leaders explain how they raised achievement by targeting incoming 9th graders in the "Bubble". Their ELA instruction focuses on seven types of thinking skills.
Saphier and Murnane explore further the methods used by Brockton, Worcester Technical, and Brighton high schools to raise student achievement.
Randolph High School, Randolph, MA
Bill Conard
tags: High school, Instruction, ELA, English Language Arts
The instructional leadership team at Randolph High School describes the school's shift to student-centered instruction and a focus on developing higher-order thinking skills supported by professional development.
Amherst Regional High School, Amherst, MA
Kristen Iverson
A team of English teachers from Amherst Regional High School describe how heterogeneous classes, writing across the curriculum, and trust among the faculty raised ELA achievement.
Boston Latin Academy, Boston, MA
Lydia Francis-Joyner and Miranda Lutyens
The instructional team from Boston Latin Academy, a public exam school, attributes its exemplary ELA achievement gains to its rigorous common curriculum and test preparation.
Chenoweth and Payzant explore further the methods used by Boston Latin Academy, Randolph and Amherst Regional high schools to raise student achievement.
TechBoston Academy High School, Boston, MA
Mary Skipper
tags: High school, Instruction, Math
The TechBoston Academy leadership team describes the central role technology plays at this young school both as a tool and as content.
Lynn English High School, Lynn, MA
Kathy Bonnevie
A math team from Lynn English High School describes how a focus on improving instruction and professional development raised achievement.
Naperville Central and North High Schools, Naperville, IL (session 2)
Two leaders in the Math department from Naperville describe how implementing the Charlotte Danielson model for teacher evaluation led to a focus on improving student engagement in the classroom.
Chenoweth and Payzant explore further the methods used by TechBoston Academy, Lynn English, Naperville Central and North high schools to raise student achievement.
Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter School, Washington, DC
Alexandra Pardo
tags: High school, Instruction, poverty
A team from Thurgood Marshall Academy describes the school's high standards and ambitious mission to deliver success in one of the poorest neighborhoods in DC.
Paint Branch High School, Montgomery County, MD
John Haas
tags: High school, Instruction, AP
Two AP World History teachers and the Assistant Principal describe how professional development and active recruiting increased AP participation at Paint Branch High School.
Lee High School, Houston, TX
Steve Amstutz
A team from Lee High School led by Principal Amstutz describes three core strategies used to raise achievement in this high minority, high poverty school.
Murnane and Connell explore further the methods used by Thurgood Marshall Academy, PaintBranch and Lee highs schools to raise student achievement.
Wrapup: Marian Brooks, Karin Chenoweth, Jim Connell, Richard Murnane
Marian Brooks, Karin Chenoweth, Jim Connell, Richard Murnane
tags: High school Instruction
Brooks, Chenoweth, Connell, and Murnane emphasize the centrality of moral conviction, courage, and earned authority in pressing colleagues for commitments to the hard work required to raise student achievement.
Encouraging Family Literacy in Ethnically Diverse and Immigrant Families
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
September 2009
tags: parenting, network, immigrant
Yoshikawa shares research on ethnic and racial differences in use of language with children. He suggests two approaches to improving family literacy to support parent achievement goals for their children.
A New Approach to Old Challenges in Shaker Heights, Ohio: An Emerging Model of Comprehensive Community-Based School Reform
Mark and Melani Joseph
tags: community, network
Mark Joseph , a professor at Case Western Reserve and his wife Melan'i describe the creation of "One Shaker", a new parent network designed to support "excellence with equity" in the racially diverse suburban school district of Shaker Heights.
The EdWorks Model for High School Improvement
Randall G. Sampson
tags: community, network, School Reform
Randall outlines the basic principles and success of the EdWorks school reform model. He argues that relationships in the classroom and the community are what make or break the transformation process.
What is a Family-School Partnership Supposed to look like?
Karen Mapp
tags: school, family, parenting
Mapp provides examples of parent engagement and partnerships that exist within schools with AYP scores ranging from below basic, to basic, proficient, and advanced. She identifies the core beliefs of each of the school environments. She details the value of joining families, communities, and schools together to build trusting and respectful relationships among school staff, community members, students and families.
Conceptualizing Whole-District Strategic Reform
Ellen Foley
June 2008
tags: School District Reform
Foley and Sigler describe CORRE (Central Office Review for Results and Equity), a framework for examining and influencing how district administrators support teaching and learning developed by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
TechBoston Academy High School
tags: dropout, at risk students, student data, instruction, School District Reform
Skipper, headmaster of TechBoston Academy, shares how the school uses data to identify student risk levels and reduce dropout rates.
Murphy Elementary School
Mary Russo
tags: instruction, School District Reform
Murphy Elementary School Principal, Russo describes three strategies they use to improve instruction.
Wrap Up: What is the State of the Field?
James Connell
Connell describes the four core strategies of "First Things First", a district-wide reform framework developed by the non profit Institute for Research and Reform in Education (IRRE).
Quint offers her comments on School District Reform.
Richard Murnane
Murnane offers his comments on School District Reform.
Jason Snipes
Snipes offers his comments on School District Reform.
Nelson Gonzalez, June Rimmer
Rimmer and Gonzalez present two tools the Stupski Foundation has developed to facilitate district-wide reform. They also described several new tools in development.
Setting District-Level Conditions for Successful Turnarounds
Andrew Calkins
tags: School Turnarounds
Calkins describes three attributes and three conditions found in high-performance, high poverty schools.
Using Data to Change District Culture
Elizabeth City
tags: School District Reform, data
City describes the eight steps of the Data Wise process which supports a system of "continuous improvement" based on the effective use of data. Data Wise is the result of a two-year collaboration with the Boston Public Schools.
LeAnn Buntrock
tags: School Turnarounds, Leadership
Buntrock describes the Darden/Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education and its School Turnaround Specialists Program and stresses the importance of leadership in successful school turnarounds.
Discussion: Raising Achievement and Narrowing Gaps in Montgomery County, MD
Mica Pollock, John Diamond
Pollock and Diamond respond to the conference presentation "Raising Achievement and Narrowing Gaps in Montgomery County, MD".
Discussion: Setting District-Level Conditions for Successful Turnarounds
Tony Wagner, James Connell
tags: School District Reform, turnarounds
Wagner and Connell respond to conference presentations on "Setting District-Level Conditions for Successful Turnarounds".
Current Efforts in Suburban School Districts: Lexington, MA
Paul Ash, Vito LaMura, Steven Flynn
tags: School District Reform, test score gaps
A district leadership team from the Lexington MA district led by Superintendent Ash shares the results of its study of district achievement gaps and the actions and change process developed to address them.
Conference Opening
Conference opening comments by Ferguson
Stacey Childress
Childress describes the Public Education Leadership Program (PELP), a joint effort of the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The PELP Coherence Framework identifies the key elements of district-wide improvement processes.
Discussion: Current Efforts in Suburban School Districts
Stacey Childress, Yvonne Allen
tags: School District Reform, test score gaps, suburban schools
Childress and Allen respond to conference presentations on closing achievement gaps in suburban school districts.
Discussion: Raising Achievement and Narrowing Gaps in Richmond, VA
Robert Peterkin, Seth Reynolds
Peterkin and Reynolds respond to the conference presentation "Raising Achievement and Narrowing Gaps in Richmond, VA".
Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks: 2008 AGI Conference
Discussion: Using Data to Change District Culture
Duncan Chapin, Thomas Payzant
Chapin and Payzant respond to conference presentations on "Using Data to Change District Culture".
Discussion: Conceptualizing Whole-District Strategic Reform
Thomas Payzant, Jason Snipes, Katherine Boles
Payzant, Snipes, and Boles respond to conference presentations on "Conceptualizing Whole-District Reform".
Current Efforts in Suburban School Districts: Brookline, MA
William Lupini, Jennifer Fischer-Mueller, David Summergrad
A team from Brookline, MA led by Superintendent Lupini describes the development and implementation of "The Equity Project", a comprehensive, system-wide plan for closing the district's achievement gap.
Raising Achievement and Narrowing Gaps in Richmond, VA
Deborah Jewell-Sherman, Victoria Oakly, Yvonne Brandon, Michael Kight
tags: School District Reform, professional development
A district leadership team from Richmond, VA led by Superintendent Jewell-Sherman describes the core components and success of Richmond's professional development program, RPS University.
Raising Achievement and Narrowing Gaps in Montgomery County, MD
Frieda Lacey, Jamie Virga, Carole Working, Heath Morrison, Adrian Talley
A district leadership team from Montgomery County, MD led by Deputy Superintendent Lacey illustrates the way the district uses a detailed data reporting system to identify and resolve achievement issues.
We Won. Now What? Law and Politics in the Aftermath of School Finance Reform Litigation
Michael Rebell
November 2008
tags: School Finance Litigation, funding
Attorney Rebell describes the very complex legal process of implementing fiscal equity reforms in New York state. He discusses the challenge of managing conflicting political interests and the role of the courts in implementing reforms. Former assembly member, Sanders makes the case that since we know funding matters, shouldn't each child have the same educational opportunity?
Longer Days in Better Schools: The Expanded Learning Model
Christopher Gabrieli, Robin Harris, Carol Johnson, Jeffrey Riley
December 2008
tags: Expanded Learning, longer school day, reform
A panel of advocates and practitioners discuss the Massachusetts Extended Learning Time (ELT) Imitative to address achievement gaps. Bostons Edwards Middle School shares its ELT experience and success.
Beyond the Bubble: Helping ALL Students to Excel
Richard Elmore, Tom Hehir, Michelle Burgos, Yvonne Allen
April 2008
tags: differentiated instruction
Elmore, Hehir, Burgos, and Allen discuss the practice of "tailoring" instruction to address the needs of all students. Presenters focused on common school efforts to meet the needs of a clearly defined population of students who score just below proficiency of state academic accountability exams.
Race, Identity & Achievement: What Role for Elites?
Ronald Ferguson, Cedric Jones, Joshua Garriga
March 2008
tags: community, race, social structures
Ferguson, former corporate executive Jones, and student leader Garriga discuss how economic, academic, and social "elites" can help young people to cope with race and identity related pressures that interfere with academic achievement.
Hip Hop Music and School Success
Steve Perry, J-Live
February 2008
tags: hip-hop, youth culture
This panel of teachers and artists debates the cultural messages "Hip Hop" music expresses. The audience is challenged to consider their own role as consumers in supporting the predominately negative images and messages contained in the lyrics.
Race, Politics and Sex: Understanding the Attitudes and Behaviors of African American Youth
Cathy Cohen
June 2007
tags: black youth, youth culture, music, racism, politics, youth, hip-hop
Cohen explores why the same black youths behaviors often do not align with their mostly conventional aspirations. Cohen suggests that black youths feelings of being devalued culturally and locked out of opportunities structurally may explain some of the misalignment between their aspirations and behaviors.
How Racial Stereotypes Color Self-Perceptions of Ability and Why it Matters.
Joshua Aronson
tags: stereotype threat, IQ, theories of intelligence
Aronson presents research on stereotype threat and academic performance. His recent school intervention results in Texas demonstrate that performance can be substantially improved with psychological interventions that include using concepts of malleable intelligence and role models for students.
Fitting in matters: markers of in-group belonging and academic outcomes academic outcomes
Daphna Oyserman
tags: youth culture, racial identity, behavior, peer culture, social identity, youth
Oyserman shares evidence that physical similarity to ones racial-ethnic in-group has a bigger impact on academic attainment for boys than for girls.
Hip-Hop and self-esteem
tags: music, hip-hop, behavior, self-esteem, acting ghetto, black youth, youth culture, youth
Ferguson discusses findings that self esteem is higher among young black males and females. The same is not true for non-blacks. His results highlight the influence of hip hop culture on identity formation and expression for black youth.
Messages in the Music: How Rap Lyrics both Encourage and Discourage School Engagement.
Travis L. Gosa
tags: music, hip-hop, youth culture, engagement, oppositional culture, youth
Gosa presents evidence about the extent of anti-achievement messaging in hip-hop music developed from his content analysis of 30,000 lyrics between 1981 and 2005. He finds three main types of negative achievement-related messages.
Welcoming Statements
Kathleen McCartney
Last Years Conference and How Were Building On What We Learned
tags: parenting, peers, peer culture, school reform, teacher quality, college, out-of-school time, youth
Ferguson provides a summary of key factors presented at the 2006 AGI Conference that contribute to the nation's achievement gaps.
How English teachers lead students to code-switch linguistically.
Rebecca Wheeler
tags: ELA, English language instruction, code-switching, instruction
Wheeler presents Code-Switching, a new method for teaching English. She uses a compare and contrast technique to teach students and teachers how to translate informal dialect English into formal standard English. The results indicate strong effects.
How Enriched Images of Possible Selves Enhance School Engagement: Evidence from an Experiment
tags: engagement, self-esteem, drop-out, social identity, SES, poverty, motivation, youth
Daphna Oyserman presents findings from an experiment on how enriched images of possible selves enhance school engagement. She finds that while youth value education, they may believe that behaviors required to achieve academically conflict with behaviors needed to fit in socially. Her experiment tested ways that enhanced images of possible selves can improve academic achievement.
Helping High School Dropouts Make Sense of their Lives and Transition into Productive Adulthood.
Robert Clark
tags: drop-out, behavior, parenting, parent's education, social structures, engagement, community, youth culture, youth
Clark describes his experiences as the director of Youth Build Newark mentoring youth who have dropped out of high school. He shares the challenges low income youths 16 to 24 face and describes the supports they need to finish school and transition to productive adult lives.
Framing: Structures and Identity
tags: instruction, student engagement
Ferguson presents evidence on five key classroom conditions as predictors of five types of student engagement in secondary school classrooms.
Accountability and School Improvement
Richard Elmore
tags: reform, accountability, school quality, leadership, teacher quality, instruction
Elmore argues that schools respond to external pressures with the resources and capacities they have. Therefore, internally weak school will either stay the same or get worse with external pressure.
High Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals
Helen Ladd
tags: poverty, teacher quality, leadership, inequality
In North Carolina, Ladd finds a connection in high poverty schools between low test scores and low principle leadership ratings. She also finds that low-income students have less experienced teachers.
Teacher Assignment in Low-income Schools
Susan Moore Johnson
tags: poverty, teacher quality, transfers, inequality, teacher recruitment, school reform, leadership, instruction
Johnson presents results from a multi-year study examining issues related to the future of the nations teaching force. She discusses ways schools can attract teachers more successfully.
Teacher Policy and the Achievement Gap
Thomas Kane
tags: teacher quality, teacher qualifications, teacher experience
Kane cautions that policies aimed at redistributing effective teachers should be based on high quality measures of effectiveness. He identifies prior effectiveness as the best current measure of a teachers future effectiveness.
Institutional and Everyday forms of Discrimination and Achievement Outcomes
Amanda Lewis
tags: discrimination, high school, resources, teacher quality, stereotypes, race, parenting, instruction
Lewis addresses patterns and meanings of racial differences in school settings. She reports on her study of achievement gaps in an affluent suburban school that has plentiful resources and an expressed commitment to eliminate race-based disparities.
School Structures, Expectations, and Peer Dynamics in a Multiracial High School
John Diamond
tags: acting white, achievement, parenting, SES, social structures, social norms, peers, stereotypes, racism, teacher-student interaction
Diamonds presentation focuses on how institutional arrangements in schools influence social identity. He finds that racial differences in advanced-course enrollments lead students of color to conflate racial categories with academic categories.
The Multiple Dimensions of Boundaries in U.S. Schools: Observations from the Northeast & South
Prudence Carter
tags: school environment, social structures, racial mix, engagement, identity, teacher-student interactions
Carter explores the relationship between school practices and the rigidity of social and symbolic boundaries. Carter found social boundaries to be more rigid in schools where students of color were the minority.
How do we get Educators to Consider and Engage in the Topic of Race and Opportunity?
Mica Pollock
tags: racial perceptions, teacher-student interactions, instruction
Mica Pollock reports on ways that educators may unintentionally contribute to racial achievement gaps. Her book, titled "Everyday Anti-racism", provides educators with practical strategies for avoiding biased practices.
How Instruction and Peer Culture Affect Student Engagement in Several Domains: Evidence from the Tripod Project
Ron Ferguson
tags: instruction, peer culture, engagement, teacher-student interaction, trust, behavior, youth
Ferguson describes a student engagement framework based on the Tripod survey data. It includes five student engagement targets, five classroom conditions for achieving the targets, and five organizational conditions for achieving and sustaining the classroom conditions.
Potholes on the road to college Managing college application among CPS students
Melissa Roderick
tags: college, college access, GPA, test scores, financial aid
Roderick finds that factors beyond simply academic qualifications explain racial/ethnic differences in college participation. Over two-thirds of Chicago high school students chose colleges below their qualifications.
The Black-White Test Score Differential
Kevin Lang
tags: test score gaps, black-white gap, parenting, NLSY
Lang (reporting work with Sepulveda) explores how inclusion of certain key control variables affect black-white test score gaps in elementary school. Lang concludes that skill is transmitted across generations through its effect on parenting and other aspects of home environment.
Workforce Development Policies Effects on Children and Adolescents in Poverty
tags: poverty, employment, workforce development, SES, community
Yoshikawa explores connections between workforce development policies and child academic performance. He finds school performance of elementary school children is raised by increased parental employment only if there is an increase in income.
Preschool Parent-Child Language Functions and Early School Literacy
Dodie Norton
tags: parenting, literacy, IQ
Norton examines links between pre-school parent-child language functions and a childs reading, oral expression and written-expression aptitude in grades 2 and 4. She compared school performance over time for two different cases.
Aligning resources to enable families to accomplish the tasks that support children in learning in school
William Beardslee
tags: parenting, depression, health, supports
With families that are coping with mental health issues, children often lack supports conducive to learning. Beardslee shares findings on a number of interventions that have effectively increased resilience within at-risk families.
Parent Processes that Support School Readiness
Susan Landry
tags: parenting, poverty, SES, cognitive development
Landry found that two parenting interventions, designed to help parents (from all backgrounds) avoid restrictive interactions and to increase responsiveness and warmth, positively affected preschool language scores.
Influencing Ways that Parents Raise Children
Paul Tough
March 2007
Writer Tough shares what he learned about "Baby College", the parenting program run by the Harlem Children's Zone. Diamond and Weissbourd offer their perspectives on parenting and achievement.
Military Models for Adolescent Education
Hugh Price, Dorothy Stoneman, Robert Clark
April 2007
tags: education reform charter school
Price argues that many of the aspects of the military such as a sense of belonging, teamwork, motivation, self-discipline are necessary for success in school and life. He provided "The National Guard Youth Challenge Corps" as an example of a positive youth training model. Comments are provided by Stoneman and Clark of Youth Build USA.
Code-Switching: Teaching Standard English in African American Classrooms
Rebecca Wheeler, Rachel Swords, Catherine Snow
November 2007
tags: code switching, English language, ELA
Wheeler presents her work on Code-Switching, a new method for teaching English. She uses a compare and contrast technique to teach students and teachers how to translate informal dialect English and formal standard English. The results: student test scores rose dramatically. Swords, a teacher, shares her experience applying the technique in her classroom.
Why do We Think We can Close Achievement Gaps?
Edmund Gordon
June 2006
tags: IQ, Test Scores, Genetics, Racial Differences, Cognitive development
Gordon contends that education extends beyond school. Families and communities need to be involved and complement in school learning.
Charles Ogletree
Opening Statements
Opening Statements. Dean McCartney describes the vision of the Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) as a university-wide effort.
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children
Roland Fryer
tags: IQ, test score gaps, genetics, cognitive ability
Fryer presents the results of analysis with Levitt of a nationally representative sample of 10,000 9 month olds from the ECLS-B and challenges the argument that racial achievement gaps are linked to genetic differences.
Black Americans Reduce the IQ Gap: Evidence from Standardization Samples
William Dickens
tags: IQ, test score gaps, cognitive ability
Dickens and Flynn analyzed the results of four leading IQ tests and found that the black-white IQ gap narrowed between 1972 and 2002 demonstrating that IQ is malleable, not fixed.
Huge Progress Stalled: Racial Gaps at 12th Grade are Smaller than in the 1970s, but Remain Large
tags: NAEP, test score gaps, reading, parent's education
Ferguson presents NAEP and SAT test score data that shows achievement gaps narrowing dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s and then stalling in 1988. He speculates that changes in youth culture may be a contributing factor.
Education, Equality, and National Citizenship
Goodwin Liu
tags: funding, NAEP, equality, state spending, Title 1
Liu argues that achievement gaps cannot be eliminated without addressing unequal funding of education between the states. He shows the strong racial and geographic patterns of this gap and links it to different levels of state financial capacity.
High Flying Schools, Student Disadvantage and NCLB
Doug Harris
tags: disadvantages, Education Trust Report, NCLB, poverty, performance
Harris challenges the evidence that high poverty schools can overcome student disadvantage. He shows that when test score data for more than one year is analyzed high poverty schools do not overcome student disadvantage.
An Empirical Analysis of Acting White
tags: acting white, GPA, popularity, youth culture, youth
Based on an analysis of the NLSAH national data set, Fryer concludes that there are racial differences in popularity and achievement. Further, he finds that the "acting white" popularity penalty is greatest in integrated schools.
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Home Intellectual Lifestyles
tags: acting white, popularity, parenting, television, computers, reading, bedtime, youth
Ferguson shows that achievement gaps are often largest between children of highly educated parents of different racial and ethnic groups. He presents evidence that there are important differences at home (beyond SES) that contribute to gaps.
Achievement-Related Parenting Across Different Immigrant Groups
Vivian Louie
tags: immigrant students, parenting, social capital, cultural capital, disadvantage, lack of information
Louie argues that immigrant parents from working-class backgrounds have insufficient knowledge about academic readiness and access. She suggests policies and practices to better support immigrant parents.
MOVING STORIES: Educational Pathways of Immigrant Youth
Carola and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
tags: immigrant students, Latin American students, diversity, achievement trends, engagement, youth
Carola and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco present the results of their Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation Study of students from Central America, China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Mexico. The Students from 51 schools in the Boston and San Francisco areas, were 9 and 14 at beginning of the study. A detailed analysis of year to year GPA trends for each group is provided and recommendations for interventions are suggested.
Racial and SES Differences in School Behavior, Engagement and Time on Homework
tags: socioeconomic status, acting white, popularity, behavior, self-esteem, GPA, homework, hip hop, rock music, youth
Ferguson presents data on student behavior and self-esteem from his Tripod student surveys. He finds a strong links between hip-hop music, identity, and self-esteem among black students. He also finds differences between white and black students' behavior and maternal education levels.
What Should We Be Trying To Achieve?
Glenn Loury
tags: racial disparities, social structures, community
Loury is troubled by what he calls "racial cast". He explains that there are complex structures in American society that are deeply rooted and social lives are segregated. He argues that society has failed to commit itself to the development of all of its human capacity. He provides several examples of system-wide imbalances as evidence.
Foundations for Success
tags: large urban school districts, instructional coherence, instruction
Snipes presents research on student achievement patterns in large urban school districts. He suggests several priorities for systemic reform and research to improve instructional quality.
Teacher Quality Matters!
Tom Kane
tags: teacher quality, class size, instruction
Kane concludes that the best way to improve teaching quality is not to just rely on certification, but to also be very selective in retaining teachers after the first few years of teaching based on student achievement results.
Teacher Recruitment, Retention and Assignment
Brian Jacob
tags: teacher quality, teacher recruitment, value-added measures, instruction
Jacob discusses research with Kane in New York City focused on new ways to identify effective teachers.
Class-to-Class Instructional Quality Differences and How They Matter
tags: teacher quality, student reporting, instruction
Ferguson shares research findings on student engagement and instructional quality from three-dozen secondary schools across eight states. Ferguson's Instructional Quality Index (IQI) uses student survey responses concerning teaching practices.
tags: transition to high school, 9th grade, drop-out, instruction
Quint presents research by Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC) and the Chicago Consortium of School Research (CCSR) on high school drop out patterns and the importance of staying on track in the 9th grade.
Key Impediments to College Access and Success for Low-Income and Minority Students
Bridget Terry Long
tags: college enrollment, graduation, financial aid, remediation, lack of information
Long identifies three keys to college access and success that have a direct affect on low-income and minority students' rate of college enrollment and college graduation rates.
The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8 (in North Carolina)
Charles Clotfelter
tags: test score gaps
Clotfeter presents research results based on data from 3rd and 8th graders in North Carolina attending the same school for six consecutive years. He identifies significant achievement gap differences from grade to grade among racial groups.
Test Score Gaps
tags: IQ, cognitive ability
Fryer examines racial differences in the mental ability of young children. He visits the motivation and data associated with identifying Intelligence Quotient (IQ) measurements of intelligence and reviews the foundations of The Bell Curve.
Understanding Trends in Racial/Ethnic Achievement Gaps During The First Years of School
tags: parenting, test score gaps
Murnane reports that early parenting practices are strong predictors of both math and language skills at kindergarten and at the end of third grade regardless of race.
School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap
Steven Rivkin
tags: school quality, test score gaps, instruction
Ferguson presents research by Rivkin and Hanushek on k-8 achievement gap patterns within and between schools in Texas. They found that gaps widened between 3rd and 5th grade for all 16 proficiency groups and between 5th and 8th grade narrowed for the lower groups and widened for the higher groups.
Oppositional Cultures among White Students: The Quest for Popularity and Normative Hegemony in America
Michael Bishop
tags: peer norms, bullying, youth culture, youth behavior
Bishop presents an analysis of peer harassment dynamics based on survey data from 37,000 students at 310 secondary schools.
Intergenerational Predictors of the Black-White Achievement Gap in Adolescence
Jelani Mandara
tags: parenting, socioeconomic status, SES, grandparents
Mandara looks at test score gaps over the span of three generations (grandparents, parents, and adolescents/current school age students) and uncovers significant gap patterns.
The broader racial context and achievement
tags: race, inequality, social structures, segregation
Diamond argues that the US is a racialized society where there are significant economic, social and political costs associated with race. In a racialized society, he argues, students do not experience the same education in the same setting. Race provides clear advantages to some and significant disadvantages to others.
Talking About Race in Education
tags: teacher-student interaction, diversity, simplification of race groups, stereotypes, instruction
Pollock provides insight from her research for her book "Everyday Anti-Racism" that focuses the everyday interactions between teachers and students and how they navigate issues of race.
Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform
tags: reform, talent-development model, implementation, small learning communities, instructional improvement, personalization, instruction
In deciding whether to adopt a comprehensive reform model or add onto existing efforts, Quint recommends administrators consider what is already in place and the capacity of local personnel. MDRC found strong district support is necessary.
Examining the Effectiveness of Scaling Up First Things First
Ed Deci
tags: reform, hierarchy, small learning communities, instruction
Deci describes his research on the efficacy of the First Things First (FTF) school reform model. FTF includes three strategies: small learning communities, a family advocate system, and instructional improvement.
Closing the Achievement Gap: What Works in Secondary Schools
Robert Balfantz
tags: drop-out, behavior, reform, poverty, talent-development model
Based on over a decade of work involving over 100 high-poverty middle and high schools using the Talent Development model, Balfanz argues that to close the achievement gap reform must be comprehensive, intensive, sustained, and on-target.
What Works in What Context and How?
Charles Payne
tags: reform, implementation, instruction
Payne argues that researchers know what the causal problems are and what to do to address them. However, it is implementation that remains the issue. He urges researchers to study the best practitioners to learn how to implement reform and he cautions that reform takes time.
Interventions for Families
Rick Weissbourd
tags: parenting, home behavior, reading
Rick Weissbourd shares progress and continuing challenges in improving home reading and enrichment for lower income families.
Complementary Learning and Out-of-School Time: Promise, Problem and Challenges
Heather Weiss
tags: out-of-school time, after school programs, community
Since kids spend 70% of their time out of school, Weiss argues that Out of School Time (OST) supports are vital complementary programs that develop and support learning in non school contexts.
Does Parenting Contribute to Achievement Gaps?
Ronald Ferguson, Jelani Mandara, Richard Murnane
November 2006
Mandara presents results from a study of 3290 adolescents and their mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Mandara studies the possible role of parenting as a contributing factor to racial test score gaps. Mandara believes that authoritative parenting should be the focus of family-based interventions. He suggests that racial achievement gaps might be substantially reduced if more African American and Hispanic youth had authoritative parents.
Educational Pathways of Immigrant Youth
Carola Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Vivian Shuh Ming Louie
October 2006
tags: immigrant, ESL, hispanic, latino, asian
Carola and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco present the results of the Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation Study (L.I.S.A.). L.I.S.A used quantitative and qualitative methods to study achievement trends among 9-to-14 year old immigrant youth, recently (1997-2002) arrived from China, Central America, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Mexico.
Acting White: Realities, Myths & Challenges
Ronald Ferguson, Roland Fryer
March 2006
tags: acting white, youth culture
Carter, Ferguson, and Fryer present their research findings on acting white. Fryers research shows that high achieving black and Hispanic students in racially mixed schools (but not homogeneously nonwhite schools) suffer a popularity penalty. Carters research, published in her book Keepin It Real, argues that there is no difference between African Americans, Latino students and whites in their acceptance of the American achievement ethic. Carter finds that acting white is associated with particular behaviors, not with achievement levels or aspirations. Fergusons findings support both Fryers and Carters and resolve the apparent inconsistency. Ferguson finds a popularity penalty only among a particular segment of high achieversthose who agree that people like themselves are sometimes accused of acting white.
What Happens When Courts Make Funding Plentiful for Poor School Districts? New Jerseys Abbott Districts
Gordon MacInnes, Fred Carrigg
tags: funding, ELL, Reform
Can you close the achievement gap with funding and court mandated definitions of what constitutes a constitutionally guaranteed education? Following a series of legal victories, Abbott districts now outspend New Jersey suburbs on a per student basis. Early literacy is the central focus of the strategy. Union City showed that dramatic change is possible. However, new programs and curriculum had to be designed and then reviewed and refined each year, with teachers deeply involved from the beginning.
Why High School Graduates Become College Dropouts
April 2006
tags: college dropout, drop-out
Roderick presents new research on school completion. While 75% of Chicago public school (CPS) students hope to obtain a bachelors degree or higher, the reality is that fewer than 6.5% do by the time they reach their mid-twenties. Why is there such a chasm between aspirations and attainment? Roderick finds several important leads. First, she shows that students who are on track finishing the 9th grade have an 81% chance of graduating from high school. Second, she shows that low ACT scores and GPAs limit access to four year colleges. Third, higher high-school GPAs make college graduation more likely, but even more predictive, Roderick finds, is which Illinois college or university a student attends.
Closing the Nation's Racial Achievement Gaps I
Prudence Carter, Ronald Ferguson, Mica Pollock
May 2005
tags: race, youth culture
Pollock and Carter discuss race, culture, and K-12 achievement gaps. This forum is moderated by Ferguson.
Closing the Nation's Racial Achievement Gaps II
Christopher Avery, Bridget Terry Long, Vivian Shuh Ming Louie
tags: college
Avery, Long, and Louie discuss the challenge of college access and success. This forum is moderated by Ferguson.
Closing the Nation's Racial Achievement Gaps III
Roland Fryer, David Grissmer, Kathleen McCartney
tags: early childhood, school readiness, kindergarten
Fryer, Grissmer, and McCartney discuss early childhood and achievement gaps. This forum is moderated by Ferguson.


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Masturbating is a habit. How do I get myself to stop? - Jordan*
Most teens masturbate at some point. Masturbation is part of the way people explore their bodies and learn about their sexual feelings. Because masturbation is a private thing, sometimes people feel embarrassed or worry if they should stop.
Although doctors know that masturbation is common (and even considered a healthy thing to do by many), there are lots of old myths about how it can cause problems. The truth is that, in almost all cases, masturbation doesn't cause problems. So it's not a habit you have to break, like smoking.
So when is masturbation a problem? If masturbation feels like a constant need and a person can't stop thinking about it — or when it keeps someone from doing other things like homework, getting to school, etc. — it's probably time to talk to a therapist, doctor, or nurse.
Reviewed by: D'Arcy Lyness, PhD Date reviewed: October 2010
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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue are working together to reach an understanding about a guest worker program. This was the topic of discussion at a recent breakfast between the two men, who usually find themselves on opposing sides of the negotiating table.
The guest worker program has been a flash point in the immigration debate. It divided the labor and business communities during the 2006 immigration battle when the Chamber fought to increase the number of temporary workers and labor pressed to keep that number low in the name of protecting its members.
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Staff members from both the labor community and the Chamber of Commerce have been talking about finding a reasonable formula that both sides can support.
But this issue isn't the only sticking point between the two communities.
Many in the labor community are concerned about suggestions that immigrants seeking citizenship be required to meet certain work requirements. Depending on how these requirements are defined, it's possible that some workers in the so-called 'shadow economy' may find it difficult to prove employment. Those affected could include household workers and day laborers.
On the other side, many in the business community are concerned about new federal requirements for businesses would conflict with already complex state immigration laws. This could make it difficult for even well-intentioned business owners to avoid illegal hiring.
Business leaders want to ensure that any new federal regulations relating to E-Verify -- an internet-based system for determining the legal status of workers -- would trump state laws that might be in conflict.


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"The End" from "Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty" (1926)
Bloomington, Indiana Saturday, October 12, 2013
In this program, Indiana University's James Madison examines the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America, with a focus on Indiana. Professor Madison explains how the KKK formed in the South after the Civil War as an organization made up of Confederate veterans fighting against Reconstruction and citizenship for African Americans. In the 1920s, Professor Madison contends, the KKK had a revival and expanded its influence beyond the South, as some white Protestants were drawn to the group's disdain for Catholics, foreigners, cultural change and the consumption of alcohol. The Indiana University Alumni Association & Indiana University Lifelong Learning organized this class.
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Miami University history professor Andrew Cayton examines the importance of reading and writing in the early American Republic. From the end of the American Revolution through the 1830s, the United States grew rapidly in size and population. As these transformations took place, Professor Cayton says a culture of printed material – including newspapers, books and letters – evolved, encouraging civility and allowing people to stay connected to family and friends after moving to developing parts of the country. This 50-minute class took place at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Brown University professor Megan Kate Nelson examines guerrilla warfare in the American Civil War. Guerrilla warfare is largely characterized by its tactics, including ambushes and surprise raids on unsuspecting troops and towns. There were bands of guerrilla soldiers fighting on both the Union and Confederate sides during the Civil War. These small bands of men on horseback were very nimble and difficult to capture, especially Confederate guerrillas who often did not wear uniforms and blended back into the population after an attack. Brown University is in Providence, Rhode Island.
George Fox University professor Kerry Irish examines the presidency of George Washington, who was inaugurated in 1789. Washington was aware his actions in office would set precedents. So, for example, despite French assistance to the Colonial Army against the British, Washington kept the U.S. neutral during the French Revolution, seeking to avoid entangling the U.S. in European affairs. Also, at the end of two terms, Washington voluntarily gave up power, and in his farewell address, he warned against loyalty to political parties over country. George Fox University is in Newberg, Oregon.
Arizona State University professor Donald Critchlow discusses the Republican revival in the 1970s. After Richard Nixon's resignation and Gerald Ford's loss to Democrat Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election, the GOP brand was weakened to the point where some political observers wondered if the party would survive. But by the end of the decade – spurred on by Phyllis Schlafly and her grassroots efforts -- a new coalition made up of fiscal conservatives, traditional stay-at-home mothers and politically minded evangelical Christians revived Republican fortunes and helped elect Ronald Reagan.
Connecticut College professor David Canton examines the lives of African Americans in the 1920s. His lecture focuses on the leaders, publications and events that made up a tension-filled era for race relations in America. Professor Canton talks about African American leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois. He also looks at a string of major events, including the Great Migration, the re-birth of the Ku Klux Klan and the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma race riots. Connecticut College is located in New London.
George Washington University's Denver Brunsman discusses the topic of George Washington as an intellectual. When Washington was 11 years old, his father died, all but extinguishing his hopes of going to college. His lack of a university education bothered him his entire life, and peers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson – while respecting Washington's character - were at times critical of his lack of a formal education. Professor Brunsman points out that throughout Washington's life, he never lost his passion for learning nor his intellectual curiosity. He was a veracious reader on a variety of topics, teaching himself through his own research and effort. Washington also respected and remained dedicated to education, always pushing his step-children and grandchildren to peruse higher learning. This George Washington University class takes place at the National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon.
Hillsdale College professor Bradley Birzer discusses the first recognizable political parties taking shape in early 19th century America. These parties tended to represent regional rather than national interests. Professor Birzer spoke about this divisive era, focusing on the rise of what he termed the Old Republicans.
Liberty University professor Michael Davis looks at the 1944 presidential election between Democrat Franklin Roosevelt -- seeking an unprecedented fourth term -- and his Republican challenger, Thomas Dewey. With the U.S. and its allies approaching victory in World War II, Roosevelt had a relatively easy victory over Dewey, who mainly campaigned against New Deal programs and for smaller government. Roosevelt would die in office six months after being re-elected, and Vice President Harry Truman became the 33rd president of the United States. Liberty University is in Lynchburg, Virginia.
University of Michigan professor Regina Morantz-Sanchez talks about the 1970s and 1980s backlash against the Women's Liberation Movement. Among the topics discussed is the work of Phyllis Schlafly -- a leader of the modern conservative movement -- who led the fight against the Equal Rights Amendment. The University of Michigan is located in Ann Arbor.
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GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2013-02372 RIN WT Docket No. 10-177 FCC 13-4 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Final rule. Effective May 20, 2013, except for amendments to §§ 1.913(d)(1)(vi), 13.9(c), and 13.13(c), which contain information collection requirements that are not effective until approved by the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB"). The FCC will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date for those sections. 47 CFR Parts 0, 1, 13, 80 and 87 This document amends our rules concerning commercial radio operator licenses for maritime and aviation radio stations in order to reduce administrative burdens in the public's interest.
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Here are some of the recent events in the bizarre story of Manti Te'o and a dead girlfriend who apparently never existed:
Sept. 16:
Te'o tweets, "I know you're there" with a picture of him pointing to the sky
Sept. 23:
Te'o tweets a link to a picture of two beams of light descending on him during the Michigan game and writes: This brought tears to my eyes! The two beams of light! My guardian angels!!! I miss you!!
Dec. 6:
Te'o receives a phone call while at an awards show from the phone number of his dead girlfriend. The woman says she's not dead.
Dec. 8:
Te'o goes to the Heisman Trophy presentation in New York, where he finishes as runner-up to Johnny Manziel.
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A person using that number continues to call, but Te'o does not answer
Christmas break:
Te'o discusses the situation with his parents
Dec. 26:
Te'o calls head coach Brian Kelly and defensive coordinator Bob Diaco and informs them of the situation
Dec. 27:
Te'o meets with athletics director Jack Swarbrick and they discuss the situation
After Dec. 27:
The University hires a nationally known investigative firm to look into the matter
Jan. 4:
The private investigators give Notre Dame their report
Jan. 5:
Swarbrick meets with the Te'o's family
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