Resources to help close the gap

Many researchers, educators and community members are focused on closing the achievement gap. You can find out more about CSBA’s Student Issues Conference Groups, Learn More California and other efforts to secure adequate school funding and close the gap for all students at www.csba.org.

Here is a sampling of other resources:

‘Making School a Place Where Everyone Succeeds: Belonging Is Necessary’
http://www.iel.org/pubs/2007_jd_steele.pdf
The National School Boards Association and the Institute for Educational Leadership published these excerpted comments from the seventh annual Jacqueline P. Danzberger Memorial Lecture in 2007. It was given by Claude Steele, a Stanford University professor and the director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

‘Achieving Success for All Students’
http://www.closingtheachievementgap.org
This state Department of Education Web site includes both statistical information and links to other sites that are targeting disparities in educational achievement and opportunity.

‘Closing the Achievement Gap’
http://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/pc/
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell’s P-16 Council produced this report earlier this year.