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Performance Counts: Assessment Systems that Support High-Quality Learning

No
May 17, 2011
Linda Darling-Hammond
Council of Chief State School Officers

Darling-Hammond describes what a student assessment system could look like if built from current research principles and best practices found around the world.

 

Breaking Schools’ Rules: A Statewide Study of How School Discipline Relates to Students’ Success and Juvenile Justice Involvement

No
July 1, 2011
Tony Fabelo, Michael D Thompson, and Martha Plotkin at CSG Justice Center
Dottie Carmichael, Miner P. Marchbanks III, and Eric A Booth at PPRI
The Council of States Governments Justice Center and the Public Policy Research Institute

This study looks at the staggering numbers of suspensions and expulsions between 7th and 12th grade in Texas and examines the impact of those removals on students' lives.

 

Second-Class Integration: A Historical Perspective for a Contemporary Agenda

No
August 1, 2009
Vanessa Siddle Walker
Harvard Educational Review 79(2)

Vanessa Siddle Walker invokes the voices of black educators who challenged the diluted and failed vision for an integrated South after 1954's Brown v. Board of Education.

Implications of Income-Based School Assignment Policies for Racial School Segregation

No
April 1, 2006
Sean F. Reardon, John T. Yun, and Michal Kurlaender
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

In this article, Sean Reardon et al. challenge the assumption that income integration guarantees racial desegregation in U.S. schools.

 

Before or After the Bell? School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Student Achievement

No
February 17, 2011
Paul A. Jargowsky and Mohamed El Komi
A chapter in "Neighborhood and Life Chances," University of Pennsylvania Press

Paul A. Jargowsky and Mohamed El Komi examine the relative impact of school and neighborhood contexts on 5th through 8th grade math and reading scores.

 

From Racial Liberalism to Racial Literacy: Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Divergence Dilemma

No
June 1, 2004
Lani Guinier
The Journal of American History

Lani Guinier argues that to address the full range of racialized inequities, racial justice advocates need to move beyond the early tenets of racial liberalism to racial literacy.

 

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Colloquium Speech: Canadian Education Policy

No
October 27, 2010
Réjean Parent

In this speech, Parent, President of the Centrale des syndicats du Québec, looks at historic and modern trends in Canadian education policy, and their impact on equity in Canadian schools.

Colloquium Provocation Paper: Improvement, Not Innovation, Is the Key to Greater Equity

No
October 27, 2010
Ben Levin

In this paper, Ben Levin argues that policy approaches to educational improvement are necessarily different in Canada and the United States, and that greater equity in education can be achieved using practices we already know to be effective.

 

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