REL 2004 Policy Forum
Closing the Achievement Gap: School Resources and Beyond

September 27-28, 2004
Austin, TX

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Bibliography

Publications

Alva, S. A., & de los Reyes, R. (1999). Psychosocial stress, internalized symptoms, and the academic achievement of Hispanic adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Research, 14, 343-358. http://jar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/3/343?

Asakawa, K., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2000). Feelings of connectedness and internalization of values in Asian American adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 29, 121-145.
http://www.springerlink.com/app/home/journal.asp ?wasp=674de2f4e65d43609024e62e076affe2&referrer=parent&backto=linkingpublicationresults,1:104945,1

Barton, P. E. (2003). Parsing the achievement gap: Baselines for tracking progress. Policy Information Center. Princeton, NJ.
http://www.ets.org/research/pic/parsing.pdf

Bernal, V., Gilmore, L. A., Mellgren, L., Melandez, J., Seleme-McDermott, C., & Vazquez, L. (2000). Hispanic fathers and family literacy: Strengthening achievement in Hispanic communities. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington, DC.
http://fatherhood.hhs.gov/hispanic01/index.htm


Bogenschneider, K., & Johnson, C. (2004). Family involvement in education: How important is it? What can legislators do? In K. Bogenschneider & E. Gross (Eds.), A policymaker’s guide to school finance: Approaches to use and questions ask (Wisconsin Family Impact Seminar Briefing Report No. 20, 54 pages). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Excellence in Family Studies.
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/familyimpact/fis20.htm

Borman, G. D. & Kimball, S. M. (April, 2004). Teacher quality and educational equality: Do teachers with higher standards-based evaluation ratings close student achievement gaps? Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI. CPRE-UW Working Paper Series TC-O4-12.
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/cpre/papers/ pdf/Teacher_Equity_AERA04TE.pdf

Casserly, M. (March, 2004). Beating the odds: A city-by-city analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments results from the 2002-2003 school year. The Council of Great City Schools. Washington, DC.
http://www.cgcs.org/Page/112

Chubb, J. E. & Loveless, T. (2002) Bridging the achievement gap. Brookings Institution Press. Washington, DC.
http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2002/bridgingtheachievementgap
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Conchas, G. Q. (2001). Structuring failure and success: Understanding the variability in Latino school engagement. Harvard Educational Review, 71, 475-504.
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~hepg/fa01.htm#conchas

Gottfredson, L. S. (2000). Skills gaps, not tests, make racial proportionality impossible. Psychology, Public Policy and Law, 6, 129-143.
http://www.psycinfo.com/plweb-cgi/padirect_icnstf.pl

Haycock, K. (2002). State policy levers: Closing the achievement gap. The State Education Standard, 3, 6-13.
http://www.nasbe.org/Standard/Past.html

Henderson, A. T. & Mapp, K. L. (2002). A new wave of evidence: The impact of school, family, and community connections on student achievement. Southwest Educational Development Laboratory. Austin, TX.
http://www.sedl.org/connections/

Herman, M. R. (2002). The black-white-other test score gap: Academic achievement among mixed race adolescents. Institute for Policy. Evanston, IL. IPR Research Working Paper WP-02-31.
http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/ publications/papers/
2002/WP-02-31.pdf

Jencks, C., & Phillips, M., Eds. (1998). The Black-White test score gap. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press.
http://www.brookings.org/press/books/blckwhit.htm
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Kober, N. (2001). It takes more than testing: Closing the achievement gap. Center on Education Policy.
http://www.ctredpol.org/improvingpublicschools/closingachievementgap.pdf

Lee, J. (2002). Racial and ethnic achievement gap trends: Reversing the progress toward equity? Educational Researcher, 31, 3-12.
http://www.aera.net/pubs/er/pdf/vol31_01/AERA310103.pdf

Lee, V. E. & Burkam, D. T. (2002). Inequality at the starting gate: Social background differences in achievement as children begin school. Economic Policy Institute. Washington, DC. http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/books_starting_gate

Lieberman, G. A. & Hoody, L. L. (1998). Closing the achievement gap: Using the Environment as an Integrating Context for Learning. State Education and Environment Roundtable. San Diego, CA.
http://www.seer.org/pages/overview.htm

Lopez, G. R. (2001). The value of hard work: Lessons on parent involvement from an (im)migrant household. Harvard Educational Review, 71, 416-437.
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~hepg/fa01.htm#lopez

Miller, L. S. (1999).Reaching the top: A Report of the National Task Force on Minority High Achievement. College Board Publications. New York. http://www.collegeboard.com/repository/reachingthe_3952.pdf

McCroskey, J., Picus, L.O., Yoo, J., Marsenich, L., & Robillard, E. (2004). Show Me the Money: Estimating Public Expenditures to Improve Outcomes for Children, Families, and Communities. Children & Schools, 26(3), 165-174. http://titania.naswpressonline.org/vl=1292074/ cl=33/nw=1/rpsv/cw/vhosts/nasw/01627961/latest.htm

National Black Caucus of State Legislators. (November, 2001). Closing the achievement gap: Improving educational outcomes for African American children. NBCSL, Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education. Washington, DC.
http://www.naleo.org/AC2003/cag.pdf

National Center for Education Statistics (2001). Educational achievement and black-white inequality. U.S. Department of Education.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2001061

Phillips, K. R. (2004). State policies that affect working families. The Urban Institute, Program to Asess Changing Social Policies. Washington, DC. Assessing the New Federalism Discussion Paper No. 04-05.
http://www.urban.org/Template.cfm? NavMenuID=24&template=/TaggedContent/ViewPublication.cfm&PublicationID=8978

Price, H. B. (2002). Achievement matters: Getting your child the best education possible. Kensington Press. New York.
http://www.nul.org/publications/index.htm

Reeves, C. (2003). Implementing the No Child Left Behind Act: Implications for rural schools and districts. North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. Oak Brook, IL.
http://www.ncrel.org/policy/pubs/html/implicate/ (Link no longer works - 2012)

Rothman, R. (2002). Closing the achievement gap: How schools are making it happen. The Journal of the Annenberg Challenge, 5 (2), 1-11.
http://www.annenberginstitute.org/publications/acpubs.html

Rothstein, R. (2004). Class and schools: Using social, economic, and educational reform to close the Black-White achievement gap. Economic Policy Institute. Teachers College, Columbia University.
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/books_class_and_schools

Sadowski, M. (2001, November/December). Closing the gap one school at a time. Harvard Education Letter.
http://www.edletter.org/past/issues/2001-mj/gap.shtml

Singham, M. (2003). The achievement gap: Myths and reality. Phi Delta Kappan, 84 (8), 586-591.
http://www.pdkmembers.org/CGI-
BIN/LANSAWEB?WEBEVENT+L186F870C4263F28C259625L+PDK+ENG

The Education Alliance. (2004). Closing the achievement gap: A focus on rural schools. The Education Alliance Business and Community for Public Schools. Charleston, WV. http://www.educationalliance.org/RuralSchools.pdf

Thernstrom, A. & Thernstrom, S. (2003). No excuses: Closing the racial gap in learning. Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York.
http://books.simonandschuster.com/No-Excuses/Abigail-Thernstrom/9780743265225
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Weiss, S. (2004). Research sheds new light on the Hispanic-White achievement gap. The Progress of Education Reform, 6 (3), 1-6.
http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/53/97/5397.pdf

Williams, B. (2003). Closing the achievement gap: A vision for changing beliefs and practices. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Alexandria, VA.
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/2003williams/
2003williamstoc.html

Internet Resources

American Association of University Women:
http://www.aauw.org/search/index_action.cfml

American Youth Policy Forum:
http://www.aypf.org/pubs.htm

Center for Education Policy:
http://www.ctredpol.org/improvingpublicschools/closingachievementgap/css/closingachievementgap_1.htm

Council of the Great City Schools:
http://www.cgcs.org/Page/112

Education Commission of the States:
http://www.ecs.org/html/issue.asp?issueid=117&subissueID=303 (Link no longer works - 2013)

Harvard Education Letter:
http://hepg.org/main/hel/Index.html

Harvard Family Research Project:
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~hfrp/pubs/pubslist.html#FSCHead

Institute for Urban and Minority Education:
http://iume.tc.columbia.edu/reports/praxis5.html
http://iume.tc.columbia.edu/pathways/achieve3/academic.asp

National Center for Education Statistics:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003353
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2003067

National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform:
http://www.goodschools.gwu.edu/pubs/annual/csrconsp03.pdf

National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future:
http://www.nctaf.org/article/index.php?g=0&c=4&sc=17&a=244

National Education Association:
http://www.nea.org/priorityschools/index.html

National Governor’s Association:
http://www.subnet.nga.org/educlear/achievement/

National Office for Rural Measurement and Evaluation Systems:
http://normes.uark.edu/alert/

National School Boards Association
http://www.nsba.org/site/page.asp?TRACKID=&CID=776&DID=9643

National Urban League:
http://nul.iamempowered.com/

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory:
http://www.ncrel.org/gap/what.htm (Link no longer works - 2012)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development:
http://www.oecd.org/document/
7/0,2340,en_2649_201185_33712135_1_1_1_1,00.html

Public Education Network:
http://www.publiceducation.org/cgi-bin/nclborderform/orderform.asp

The American Prospect:
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?
section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=4640 (Link no longer works - 2012)

The Education Trust:
http://www2.edtrust.org/EdTrust/achievement+in+america.htm

The Rural School and Community Trust:
http://www.ruraledu.org/docs/sapss/nat_sum.html (Link no longer works - 2012)

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