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Thursday, February 10, 2011

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1. MLK lecture tackles achievement gap, by Shanoor Seervai - The Brown Daily Herald: http://t.co/I6n3CPk

"During a question and answer session after the lecture, Ferguson addressed the issue of education perpetuating social hierarchy. "People who already have privilege tend to award it," he said, and the students whose parents are not as well-off most need to be advocated for."

2. Q&A with Ronald Ferguson - The Brown Daily Herald: http://t.co/ifq4SaR

"The thesis of my book is that we need a 21st century movement built around helping students from all different backgrounds to realize their full potential. . . . it is time for a widespread social movement. Every day, I get two to three calls from people trying to organize around the issue of equality in education. There is a sense that the current configuration is not just."

3. School scraps race-specific mentoring program, by Monika Plocienniczak - http://bit.ly/e6ypIU #cnn

"When we talk about reducing the achievement gap, do we mean merely reducing the discrepancy of test scores of white students and students of color?" asked education consultant Sam Chaltain. "Or do we mean reducing the predictive impact that things like race, class and gender have on all aspects of student engagement, performance and learning?"

4. Minority Students and A.P. Program, a Mixed Report Card, by Maria Newman - http://nyti.ms/fwxEi5

‎"But the gap between how those students performed, compared to nonminority students, is still great in most states in the country. African-Americans, for example, represented just over 14.6 percent of the total high school graduating class last year, but made up less than 4 percent of the A.P. student population who earned a score of 3 or better on at least one exam."

5. Dream On, by David Moltz - Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/ZRh8n21

"Yet according to the report, most of the measures of student success for the overall populations at the institutions did not change in a statistically significant way after five years, less because programs used were unsuccessful -- many individual efforts have been publicly lauded as successful -- than because they touched too few students."

6. Turning the Tide: Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges - http://www.mdrc.org/publications/578/overview.html

"Trends in student outcomes remained relatively unchanged, with a few exceptions. On average, after Achieving the Dream was introduced, colleges saw modest improvements in the percentage of students completing gatekeeper college English courses and courses completed. In contrast, students’ persistence and the percentage of students completing developmental math, developmental English, developmental reading, and gatekeeper math courses remained substantially the same."

7. Assessing Developmental Assessment in Community Colleges, CCRC - http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=856

"More than half of entering students at community colleges are placed into developmental education in at least one subject as a result. But the evidence on the predictive validity of these tests is not as strong as many might assume, given the stakes involved—and recent research fails to find evidence that the resulting placements into remediation improve student outcomes."

8. Community College Student Survey, Pearson Foundation - http://www.pearsonfoundation.org/downloads/Community_College_Survey_Summary_201102.pdf

"This summary of results highlights the major conclusions from a nationally represented online poll of 1,434 U.S. community college students ages 18–59. The Pearson Foundation Community College Student Survey was conductedby Harris Interactive between September 27 and November 4, 2010."

9. The Achievement Gap: Am I Part of the Problem? by Chris Myers Asch - http://t.co/p3Em0TV via @educationweek

‎"By kindergarten, the achievement gap is already in place, and parents like me are at least partly to blame. Parents, not teachers (no matter how effective), are the single most important educational influence in a child’s life. And that means that parents are also part of the reason for the achievement gap."

10. Number of AP Test Takers Has Nearly Doubled Since 2001, by Lauren Sieben - http://chronicle.com/article/Number-of-AP-Test-Takers-Has/126313/

"In 2010, 853,314 graduating seniors at public high schools had taken at least one AP exam. That's an increase of more than 55,000 students since 2009. The number of students who performed well on the exams—a score of 3 or better—is also up from 2009. In 2010, 16.9 percent of test takers met that mark on at least one AP exam, a slight increase from 16 percent in 2009."

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