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Ethnic Groups
Education Watch: Texas
The Education Trust publishes this annual summary of key education facts and figures for Texas, as well as every other state. |
Education Week Research Center
Free registration at this site allows users to conduct customized data searches and to access special reports. Of special interest: Texas State Information Includes rankings of student subgroups on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). |
Parsing the Achievement Gap (PDF download)
This Educational Testing Systems publication synthesizes a large body of research to identify 14 conditions that help create and perpetuate achievement gaps. |
School Matters: Texas Homepage
This service of Standard and Poor provides a wealth of information on student performance, school environment, and more at the state, district, and school level. It allows users to create customized and downloadable data reports, and it includes specific resources for parents, educators, and district and state leaders. |
TEA’s Academic Excellence Indicator System
This portion of the Texas Education Agency Web site provides reports about school performance from 1991-2004. Information is available at the campus, district, and grade level for mathematics, science, and other content areas. It includes data on ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and English proficiency. |
TEA Science Curriculum Web page
This resource area on the Texas Education Agency’s Web site links to information on curriculum, assessment, rules, and other science related issues. It also links to conference presentations by TEA staff, which provide in-depth analysis of student performance in science. |
Beating
the Odds IV
This March 2004 edition put out by the Council of the Great City
Schools provides a city-by-city analysis of student performance on
state assessment. It also measures achievement gaps among different
cities, states, and student subgroups. |
Closing
the Gap: High Achievement for Students of Color (PDF download)
This
Fall 2004 issue of Research Points from the American
Educational Research Association Web site provides research findings
and suggests solutions to address the achievement gap with students
of color. |
Education Week and Teacher Magazine
This site provides resources to allow the user to conduct customized
searches on data relating to state tests and the National Assessment
of Educational Progress in the United States. |
Educational
Achievement and Black-White Inequality
This article in the
National Center for Education Statistics ’ quarterly
newsletter examines the educational attainment and economic differences
between African American children and white. This report can be located
at the link provided or with a search by name on the NCES Web site. |
No Child Left Behind Web Site
This page of the US Department of Educations NCLB Web site provides information
about the achievement gap, including fact sheets on how NCLB will address the
gap with respect to specific subgroups of students. Further research on the ED.gov
site will provide additional information about the achievement gap in the United
States. |
Promoting Power
This
page of the Center for Social Organization of Schools summarizes
findings and links to multiple resources relating to promotion policies
and who they impact the racial/ethnic and low socio economic groups.
Of special interest is the “Locating the Dropout Crisis” which
identifies US high schools producing the most dropouts. |
Reports
on Educational Attainment
This page on Child Trends Data Bank’s
Web site lists research conducted from 1971-2003 on the level of
education attained by race and gender. |
Results for the NAEP 2000 Science
Assessment
This area of the National Center for Education Statistics Web
site reports results of the 2000 National Assessment of Education
Progress in Science. The following page, which breaks down results
by gender, race/ethnicity, parents' education level, type of
school, type of location, and eligibility for the free/reduced-price
lunch program, is of particular interest.National
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Results for the NAEP 2003 Mathematics
Assessment
This area of the National Center for Education Statistics Web
site reports results of the 2003 National Assessment of Education
Progress in Mathematics. The following pages, which break down
state results by gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status,
may be of particular interest.
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School
Matters
This service of Standard and Poor provides a wealth
of information on student performance, school environment, and
more at the state, district, and school level. It allows users
to create customized and downloadable data reports, and it includes
specific resources for parents, educators, and district and state
leaders. |
The
Minority Student Achievement Network
This national coalition of multiracial, relatively affluent suburban
school districts studies the disparity in achievement between white
students and students of color through intensive research. Publications
available through their site include:
- What is the Relationship Between Race and Achievement in Our
Schools?
- Public Education and Black Male: A State Report Card Students
- Latino Achievement in America
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The
New Diversity
This article explores how the population in the
United States has changed since Brown v. Board of Education. It
is part of an April 2004 American School Board Journal special
report on the unfinished legacy of that ruling. |
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