ACHIEVEMENT GAPS:

• AERA - Closing the Achievement Gap (Fall 2004)
• ETS - Addressing Achievement Gaps (Winter 2005)
• A Nation at Risk (1983) by the National Commission on Excellence in Education
• Beating the Odds Report (2004-05) by the Council on Greater City Schools
• ETS - Parsing the Achievement Gap (2003) by Paul Barton
• Education Week - Accountability (2005) (Website)
• WCER - Achievement Gap Can be Narrowed Further (2005)
• Fragile Futures: Risk and Vulnerability Among Latino High Achievers (2005) by Patricia Gandara of ETS
• Similar Students, Different Results: Why do Some Schools do Better? (June 2006 EdSource Report)
• Introduction
• Full Report
• AERA - English Language Learners: Boosting Academic Achievement (2004)
• Achievementtrap: How America is Failing Millions of High-Achieving Students From Lower Income Families by Joshua S. Wyner, John M. Bridgeland, & John J. Dilulio, Jr.

ASSESSMENT & DATA SYSTEMS:

• Buried Treasure: Developing a Management Guide from Mountains of School Data (2005) by Mary Beth Celio & James Harvey
• Anatomy of School System Improvement: Performance-Driven Practices in Urban School Districts by Lisa Petrides & Thad Nodine
• Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment (2006) by Paul Black & Dylan William in the Phi Betta Kappan (Website)
• Integration of Renaissance Programs into an Urban Title I Elementary School (2002) by Sadusky & Brem
• Maryland Assessment Research Center for Education Success (MARCES) - Value-Added Workshops (Website)
• NAEP Long-Term Trend Results (2004) (Website)