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Download full textLearning Point Associates / North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), 2005
An Interview With Kiley Walsh In her ground-breaking study, titled "After the Test: How Schools Are Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap", researcher Kiley Walsh shows clear evidence of specific work being done to close achievement gaps. Walsh selected 32 schools across six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area and compared those…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Minority Groups, Low Income Groups, Secondary School Students
Bonilla, Carlos A., Ed.; Goss, Joyce, Ed. – 1997
This book contains seven chapters, written by graduate students in teacher education, on educational strategies to promote multiculturalism and combat racial, ethnic, and gender bias in the classroom. Chapters are: (1) "Diversity and Multiculturalism: Quo Vadis? What Is Multiculturalism?" (Deborah Bradford Basey, Michelle Danner, Stacy…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism
DeCandido, GraceAnne A., Ed. – 2001
This book presents 22 personal narratives in which library directors, program administrators, teachers, tutors, librarians, and adult learners explain firsthand how literacy programs at libraries across the United States have changed people's lives. The following narratives are included: "Gloria's Story: 'She Wanted Me to Be Somebody'";…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Community Education
