Closing the Achievement Gaps Resources

Here are some resources that describe the academic achievement gaps and provide strategies to close them.

NEA Materials

C.A.R.E.: Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gaps 
This guide helps educators reflect on the causes of disparity in student achievement and explore ways to improve academic success by using innovative, research-based instructional strategies.
http://www.nea.org/teachexperience/careguide.html

Focus On: Learning About Each Other
NEA series helps educators know their students.
http://www.nea.org/teachexperience/focuson0711.html

Focus On: Learning About Each Other's Culture
NEA series helps education employees better serve students.
http://www.nea.org/teachexperience/focuson0607.html

Focus On: Closing the Achievement Gaps for Six Groups 
This series identifies barriers to learning for six groups -- American Indian and Alaska Native students; Asian and Pacific Islander students; Black students; Hispanic students; women and girls; and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students -- and offers resources to break down the barriers. 
https://www.nea.org/teachexperience/achievgapfocus0405.html

Closing the Gap
Academic success still eludes thousands of students -- and the fault lines between those who achieve and those who don't show up in multiple places: around race, gender, income, and more. This NEA Today cover story offers some innovative solutions that educators are bringing to the problem.
https://www.nea.org/neatoday/0501/coverstory.html

Closing the Achievement Gap for AAPI Students
Discussions of closing the achievement gaps often overlook Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students. Because most people believe AAPI students always do well in school. But a groundbreaking report debunks the stereotype that all AAPI students are succeeding in schools.
http://www.nea.org/teachexperience/api05.html

Materials from Other Web Sites

ECS: Closing the Achievement Gap
This education policy issue site provides readings, research summaries, and statistical information on the causes and effects of the achievement gap and offers a look at some of the strategies and reforms that states, districts, schools, philanthropic organizations, and others are using to help boost the achievement of ethnic and racial minority students. The Education Commission of the States.
http://www.ecs.org/html/issue.asp?issueID=194