The American Indian Education KnowledgeBase is an online resource to aid education professionals in their efforts to serve American Indian students and close the achievement gap American Indian students have faced in public, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and other schools.  Contents cover (a) Foundations and Current Status of American Indian Education; (b) American Indian Cultures; (c) Understanding Your School and Community; and (d) Utilize Culturally Responsive Teaching Methodologies.  Each includes sets of learning activities and tasks for educators and others.  (Located at the University of Oklahoma, the Mid-Continent Comprehensive Center is a regional technical assistance center ...

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. Deborah Loewenberg Ball, from the University of Michigan, talks about instruction and achievement gaps, using math instruction and achievement as the primary example. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. Carol Lee of Northwestern University presents her research on creating robust learning environments, including an analysis on what learning in school is, means, and requires. She discusses how to help students persist in learning and develop deep understanding of the material. The presentation includes videos of Lee's classroom work. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. Frederick Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies at American Enterprise Institute, discusses the problem model driving discussion of and interventions for achievement gaps and teacher quality. He also presents some common ideas and values being balance when working out how to scale best practices. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. Henry Levin, from Teachers College at Columbia University, presents decades of research on how education affects income, health, incarceration rates, participation in entitlement programs, and other economically significant aspects of adult life. He breaks the information down demographically and talks about the consequences of achievement gaps, and compares the cost of academic interventions with the costs of low academic achievement. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Nel Noddings presents research, from a nonempirical philosophical perspective, that discusses the assumptions behind education policy, research, and praxis. She discusses the importance of diversity in terms of skills needed in our society, and the relationships between education and poverty. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

Harvard’s Achievement Gap initiative offers a very extensive collection of videos on issues and solutions relevant to the achievement gap.  Some videos are accompanied by PowerPoints.   Among the many topics are (a) identifying and addressing racial and ethnic disparities; (b) race and socioeconomic differences in school behavior, engagement, and time on homework; (c) building capacity to serve English language learners; (d) the impact of school and teacher quality; (e) cultural factors; (f) vernacular languages; (g) school reform; (h) roles of families; (i) complementary learning and out-of-school time -- and many, many more.  (The Achievement Gap Initiative is a university-wide ...

This webpage contains links to presentations given at Massachusettsâ? Second Annual Summit on Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. Presentations cover a wide range of topics, and materials include PowerPoint presentations as well as accompanying handouts.