Achievement Gaps
Improve Achievement for All Students
Improve Achievement for All Students
Closing the Gaps May 11th Symposium: Speaker Bios
- Speaker Bios (
PDF, 510 KB, 8 pgs.) - NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia
- NEA Secretary-Treasurer Princess R. Moss
HIGHLIGHTS
- Handbook: Teaching Children from Poverty and Trauma
NEA created this handbook to provide NEA members with a research-based description of poverty's impact on teaching and learning, along with strategies for overcoming this impact. - Backgrounder: Students from Poverty
This paper addresses poverty’s impact on student physical, mental, and socioeconomic health, as well as the school’s role in student development and advocating for programs and services proven to level the academic playing field. - Understanding the Gaps: Who Are We Leaving Behind - and How Far?
From NEA Education Policy and Practice & Priority Schools Departments and Center for Great Public Schools: Closing achievement gaps must remain a priority. See what's causing the gaps to continue, and how we can fix it. - 2011 C.A.R.E. Guide: Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gaps
The 2011 C.A.R.E. Guide provides research and practice tips to help educators improve the learning experiences of culturally diverse students and students from low-income families. - Educating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
- Educating Black Boys
This publication summarizes the current research about Black male students and offers positive steps educators can take at the classroom, school, and district levels. - Girls and Bullying
This publication summarizes what we know about the bullying of girls and suggests steps educators can take both to help the individual girl who is bullied and stop bullying school-wide. - Latino Civil Rights Movement 1902-2009
This paper summarizes what we know about the bullying of girls and suggests steps educators can take both to help the individual girl who is bullied and stop bullying school-wide. - Why Cultural Competence?
To Help Educators Close Achievement Gaps - Becoming a Culturally Competent Educator
Where can you and your colleagues begin the journey to becoming culturally competent? - The Impact of Achievement Gaps on State and National Economies
These current research reports address the impact of the achievement gaps on state and national economies. - Focus On What Works
Ethnic-minority schoolchildren will soon be the majority, girls already outnumber boys in many of the nation - NEA Series on Underserved Groups - Latest Is GLBT Report
Latest in Series - A Report on the Status of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People in Education - Brain Development Resources
Resources on cognition and brain development, with implications for parenting, programming, and developing policy for the early care and education of children. - Students Affected by Achievement Gaps
Find out which groups of students are affected by the achievement gaps. - Race and Schools: The Need for Action
We must not accept separate and unequal schools as if nothing can be done about segregation. - NEA Research, Tools, & Talking Points on Achievement Gaps
Resources for closing achievement gaps.
Success Stories
- Building 21st Century Skills
Columbus, Ohio - Closing Achievement Gaps
Little Rock, Arkansas - Focusing on Academics
Franklin County, Florida - Stories of Closing Achievement Gaps Through Community Engagement (PDF, 15pp)
Family-School-Community Partnerships (Public Engagement Project)
