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For teachers working to close the achievement gap, ASCD offers this useful tool: Web Wonders, which provides a collection of online resources, research and readings related to gaps in student achievement:
www.ascd.org/cms/objectlib/ascdframeset/index.cfm?publication=http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_lead/200411/guilfoyle.html?reid=sb
Closing the achievement gap: ASCD's Educational Leadership make minority learning a focus. Check out this issue of their online publication here:
www.ascd.org/cms/objectlib/ascdframeset/index.cfm?publication=http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_lead/200411/toc.html
And, closer to home (and classroom) this article in the ASCD's Classroom Leadership suggests that we bring reading closer to home for our minority students: black boys, especially may be more motivated to read if they have stories available that are culturally and personally relevant to them:
us.f207.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=6703_12420154_210_1413_13499_0_86545_60701_3001817311&Idx=3&YY=33152&inc=200&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b&box=Website%20schtuff
The achievement gap between black and white students is a growing issue—in several senses. But schools can't bridge it alone, according to an article in the American School Board Journal: the role of SES and other factors outside schools' domain must also be taken into account:
www.asbj.com/current/coverstory.html
In Colorado, more students are opting for the Spanish-language GED—the Spanish version of the test saw twice as great an increase in number of students taking it as the English-language test did:
insidedenver.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_3195420,00.html