Area » Practitioner:Inquiry on Equity in Schooling

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  A summary of research on the effects of test accommodations: 2002 through 2004

  1/1/06 - Johnstone, C., Altman, J., Thurlow, M., Thompson, S. J.

  The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) requires the reporting of participation in assessments overall and by subgroup, including students with disabilities. As states and school districts strive to meet the goals for adequate yearly progress required by NCLB, the use of individual accommodations continues to be scrutinized for effectiveness, threats to test validity, and score comparability. This report summarizes 49 empirical research studies completed on test accommodations between...

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  Achievement Gaps Between Female and Male Latino Students

  1/1/08 - Julio Cammarota

  Throughout the 1990’s, I documented the education, work and family experiences of Latino youth in California (see my book, Suenos Americanos). My intention was to understand how young Latinos might achieve some success (i.e. educational achievement or decent employment) in a hostile political and economic environment. The most surprising finding of my research was that Latina females fared much better than Latino males, sometimes within the same family.

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  All our children? The health and education of children of immigrants: 2007 annual report

  1/1/07 - Foundation for Child Development,

  "The centerpiece of the Foundation for Child Development's 2007 Annual Report, All Our Children? The Health and Education of Children of Immigrants is an essay by Alexandra Fuenmayor Starr. Ms. Starr writes about U.S. immigration policy for Slate, The New Republic, and The American Scholar. Her essay, "The Dividends of Investing Early: Why We Need to Help the Youngest Children of Immigrants," argues that young children of immigrants, over 90 percent of whom are citizens, will have a large...

• Beyond "getting the answer": Calculators help learning disabled students get the concepts

  1/1/07 - Center for Implementing Technology in Education,

  This Info Brief summarizes Thompson and Sproule's (2000) "Calculator Decision-Making Flow Chart" and uses the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to clarify how calculator usage helps students with learning disabilities understand math concepts.

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  Challenging common myths about young English language learners

  1/1/08 - Linda Espinosa

  This review of research from a variety of disciplines about dual language development and the impact of different educational approaches for children ages three to eight runs counter to much conventional thinking.Scientific studies suggest that young ELL children are quite capable of learning subject matter in two languages. In fact, they may benefit cognitively from learning more than one language. Transitioning from their first language to English before they have a firm grasp of their...

• Colorín Colorado

  Colorín Colorado,

  A free web-based, bilingual service that provides information, activities, and advice for educators and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners.Also includes information about accommodations and evaluation, informal assessment, standards-based writing, bilingual parent tips about testing, recommended guides and research, and a webcast.

• Emerging ELL communities: Key considerations for state education agencies

  1/1/08 - Southeast Comprehensive Center,

  Kristina Anstrom, EdD, assistant director, The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, discusses key considerations at the school, district, and state level, including student characteristics and needs, curriculum and instruction, and educator capacity.

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  Gangs, Schools and What Else?: Educational Challenges, Street Intervention, and Cultural/Community Development for Khmer American Youth in Revere and Lynn, Massachusetts

  1/1/06 - Tang, S.

  This paper examines the relationship between educational challenges, gang intervention efforts, and cultural/community development practices in two markedly under-resourced Khmer American communities (Revere and Lynn) in Massachusetts and reveals how Khmer American young people develop alternative learning opportunities in various venues.

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  Immigration Then and Now: Old Face, New Story

  1/1/04 - Rene Galindo

  This paper is one of the brief practitioner oriented pamphlets called On Points produced by the National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI). The current wave of immigration is creating such an upheaval, and caught in this emotional jumble are first generation immigrant students. These students are being raised and educated in the United States and are developing understandings of their place within the nation and what it means to be an American. This On Point is designed to...

• Inclusive Education for Equity

  1/1/09 - Equity Alliance at ASU,, Kathleen King

  Inclusive education, in policy and practice, rejects the exclusion and segregation of students, for ANY reason: gender, language, household income, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, national origin, ability, or any dis/ability. Simultaneously, because of an active commitment to equity for all students, inclusive educational systems maximize the participation of all learners, by making learning opportunities relevant and high-quality. This is only achieved through the systemic exploration...

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  Lessons learned: New teachers talk about their jobs, challenges and long-range plans

  1/1/08 - National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality,

  The final report in this series by the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality and Public Agenda focuses on the strengths and possible deficits of new teacher training. The research described in this report points to two specific areas in which teacher training may be lacking: preparedness for the diversity of the contemporary American classroom and teaching students with special needs.

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  Lessons learned: New teachers talk about their jobs, challenges and long-range plans

  1/1/07 - National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality,

  Working Without a Net provides additional results from the new-teacher survey conducted by Public Agenda. It focuses on new teachers in high-needs schools, comparing the perspectives of those from traditional teacher education versus those from three alternate-route programs: Teach for America, Troops to Teachers, and The New Teacher Project.

• Lost learning, forgotten promises: A national analysis of school racial segregation, student achievement, and "controlled choice" plans

  1/1/06 - Douglas Harris

  This report considers the educational consequences of the considerable racial segregation that remains in schools today and the potential of controlled choice to address them. It begins with an extensive review of research regarding the effects of school integration. Previous research provides relatively strong evidence that desegregation helps minority students reach higher academic achievement and better long-term outcomes such as college attendance and employment.

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  Methods for assessing racial/ethnic disproportionality in special education: A technical assistance guide

  1/1/07 - Data Accountability Center,, Westat,

  “Many different methods of calculating disproportionality exist. Each of these methods represents a different way of reporting the same data, and each answers a different question about racial/ethnic representation in special education. This technical assistance guide focuses on two of the more common methods: composition and risk. (The authors) also discuss the risk ratio as a means for comparing risk. This technical assistance guide summarizes how to apply each of these methods...

• Response to Intervention and the disproportionate representation of culturally and linguistically diverse students

  1/1/08 - Hosp, John L.

  Several of the characteristics of an RTI model can be useful for monitoring and addressing issues of disproportionality. A few of the most critical involve a focus on outcomes, individuals, and data.

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  The Principal’s Perspective: School Safety, Bullying and Harassment, A Survey of Public School Principals

  1/1/08 - Dana Markow, Jill Dancewicz

  A study of public school principals by GLSEN, in collaboration with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) finds that half of principals view bullying as a serious problem at their schools, yet they appear to underestimate the extent of harassment that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students experience.