Multi-Tiered System of Support (WEBSITE)
A comprehensive framework aligning supports for academic, behavior, and social success.
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A comprehensive framework aligning supports for academic, behavior, and social success.
Publication Date 2024
Disproportionality Fills in the Gaps: Connections Between Achievement, Discipline and Special Education in the School-to-Prison Pipeline (PDF)
This article examines how a focus on the achievement gap has overshadowed ways in which school systems constrain student achievement through trends of racial disproportionality in areas such as school discipline, special education assignment, and juvenile justice; the article considers these racial disparities as issues of institutionalized racism.
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Annamma, Subini, Morrison, Deb, and Jackson, Darrell. 2014. “Disproportionality Fills in the Gaps: Connections Between Achievement, Discipline and Special Education in the School-to-Prison Pipeline.” Berkeley Review of Education 5 (1).
Publication Date 2024
Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation (PDF)
The resource highlights how racial segregation in schools is still a relevant and consequential issue in America. The resource provides practitioners with a critical lens as they think about the demographic trends in the districts they work in.
Citation/Source
Orfield, G., and Lee, C. “Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation.” Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Cambridge, MA., 2006.
Publication Date 2024
Race, Inequality and Educational Accountability: The Irony of “No Child Left Behind” (ARTICLE)
The article explores how the No Child Left Behind Act, a well intentioned law, has led to unintended consequences that have further marginalized the students it intended to help. The article is relevant to practice because it provides insight into how broad educational reforms can be perverted in practice and offers practitioners a bird’s eye view of how policy can perpetuate, rather than mitigate, inequalities.
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Darling-Hammond, L. “Race, Inequality and Educational Accountability: The Irony of "No Child Left Behind". Race, Ethnicity and Education, 10(3), 2007: 245-260.
Publication Date 2024
Region 15 Comprehensive Center (WEBSITE)
The Region 15 Comprehensive Center (R15CC), led by WestEd, is part of the national Comprehensive Center Network (CC Network), and works to provide capacity-building technical assistance, content expertise, and other services to effectively support state education agencies (SEAs) and their regional and local constituents in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah.
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The Region 15 Comprehensive Center (R15CC), led by WestEd, is part of the national Comprehensive Center Network (CC Network), and works to provide capacity-building technical assistance, content expertise, and other services to effectively support state education agencies (SEAs) and their regional and local constituents in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah.
Publication Date 2024
(The) Achievement Gap and the Discipline Gap: Two Sides of the Same Coin? (ARTICLE)
The article provides an overview of the issues surrounding racial and ethnic disproportionality in school suspensions. It is useful to practitioners that seek to complicate commonly held ideas about the effectiveness of school discipline practices.
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Gregory, A., Skiba, R. J., and Noguera, P. A. “The Achievement Gap and the Discipline Gap: Two Sides of the Same Coin?” Educational Researcher, 39(1), 2010: 59-68.
Publication Date 2024
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (BOOK)
The book explores how racial identities manifest in public settings and how the expression of identity is received and understood by others. The book is useful for practitioners who seek to gain clarity on how to understand and talk about racial differences in honest and effective ways.
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Tatum, B. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Basic Books: New York, 2003.
Publication Date 2024
Closing the Achievement Gap: From Research to Practice (BOOK)
The book explores the plethora of research surrounding the achievement gap in America. It is useful for practitioners because it highlights the work of schools and districts that have reduced the gap.
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Noguera, P. and W. Boykin. Closing the Achievement Gap: From Research to Practice. Washington, D.C.: ASCD, 2011.
Publication Date 2024
Understanding and Responding to the Disenfranchisement of Latino Males: Invisible No More (BOOK)
The book provides a comprehensive overview of health, social, emotional etc. issues facing Latino males in America. It is useful for practitioners who seek to further understand prevalent issues affecting Latino males in America.
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Noguera, P., Aida Hurtado and Edward Fergus Eds. Understanding and Responding to the Disenfranchisement of Latino Males: Invisible No More. New York: Routledge, 2011.
Publication Date 2024
Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities (BOOK)
The book explores how race is often not explicitly talked about in schools yet has a profound effect on how schools are organized, how students and teachers interact and how implicit lessons of race are taught. The book is an important tool for practitioners who seek to become more reflective on how their everyday interactions in schools are embedded within the historical and racial fabric of America. Lewis, A. Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003
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Lewis, A. Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003
Publication Date 2024
