Informational Links

There are thousands of websites that discuss the achievement gap. I want to highlight on seven sites that I found contained the most useful information in my research.

1. Real Education Solutions
This website searched through many internet websites and viewed the information from dozens of educational organizations to develop what it thought is the top five solutions to closing the achievement gap. It goes into detail by providing statistics and links from other websites to help prove why it thinks that that solution is one of the best. The content helped me gather information and ideas that I used throughout many of my posts.

2. The New Crisis
I found this magazine through Google Books. It was published as a special edition on education. The six pages that I used as support in my blogs not only contained statistics and quotes from kids, as well as teachers and school-board officials, but also history on the progress of minority education. It also discusses the assumed thought process of minority students concerning their feeling of being inadequate in classrooms, and included information on the status of schools in numerous areas across the nation.

3. Education Week
This website focused on the disparities between the races and highlighted on one of the most influential assessments that researchers use to gather information on the status of the achievement gap. Commonly known as "The Nation's Report Card", the National Assessment of Education Progress highlights on the numerical achievements of African American and Hispanic students in comparison to White students. Furthermore, it discusses the results of surveys and other analysis's from experts to explain the differing performance between the races. I used this website specifically in my analysis post.

4. Parent Involvement
This is actually a like to a powerpoint that was changed into PDF format. The presentation focuses on how parental involvement and culture on the academic achievement of elementary school children. It divides the results of its study into the distinguished races to emphasize the differences. The study dedicated special attention to extent and impact of five contrasting types of parental involvement and provided the results that came from each inequality.

5. Status and Trends in the Education
In most cases, poverty is viewed as an added setback to minority students because they do not have access to adequate resources. This websites notes the percentages of Hispanics and Blacks who live in poverty in the United States, and as a result do not always have the same quality of education than students who live in better neighborhoods. The website also distinguishes the difference between students who come from married families in poverty and students who come from single-parent homes in poverty.

6. Worries Facing Minority Education
This website does exactly what it title says and discusses the extent of the achievement gap and the problems that will arise it progresses. It defines the terms involved in the issue, as well as some information on the history of the generation of minorities in education. In the article, the writer uses statistics that beg for an immediate change in our nation's school system.

7. Black Parents Waging Against War
This websites incorporates information and comments from an article published by a well-known black magazine, Essence Magazine. It takes into account social issues and how the views of parental involvement in their role in their child's education has changed since the initial desegregation of schools. Interesting enough, the site even comments on how some people blame the achievement gap on black women for "feminising" boys.