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| Facts and Reports about Diversity, Inequality, and Schooling | ||
| Childstats.gov | ||
| Is a government website assembled by the Federal Intra-agency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, a working group of federal agencies and private research organizations that collect, analyze, and report data on issues related to children and families. The Forum's annual report, America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, details the status of children and families in the United States. ( http://childstats.gov ) | ||
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| The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) | ||
| Directed by Professor Gary Orfield, is a leading organization devoted to civil rights research. CRP research has been incorporated into federal legislation, cited in litigation, and used to spur congressional hearings. The group's website makes available downloadable versions of many of its reports. ( http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu ) | ||
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| Economic Policy Institute (EPI) | ||
| A Washington D.C. based think tank, produces regular biennial reports about Americans' economic well-being on a variety of measures—data that enables the book's authors to closely examine the impact of the economy on the living standards of the American people. EPI and the report can be found online. ( http://www.epi.org/ ) | ||
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| Educational Trust | ||
| Is an educational advocacy organization in Washington D.C. with a second branch in California (EdTrust West). The Trust assembles a wide range of data about education. Among the useful resources on the organization's website is Education Watch Online, a user-friendly, searchable database that features state and national data showing student achievement and opportunity patterns, kindergarten through college, by race, ethnicity and family income. ( http://www2.edtrust.org ) | ||
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| Inequality.org | ||
| Is a project of Demos, a group that describes itself as a New York City-based online resource "for journalists, activists, scholars and policymakers seeking information on the connection between rising economic inequality, on the one hand, and eroding opportunity and democracy, on the other." Demos describes its mission as "first, to illuminate the causes and multidimensional consequences of America's growing concentration of wealth, income, power and opportunity; and second, to move what we consider an important and neglected problem onto the front burner of American politics and public discourse." ( http://www.inequality.orG ) | ||
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| The Lewis Mumford Center at the State University of New York, Albany | ||
| Compiles data and produces reports on the implications of changing demographics for American society. The Mumford Center also has an initiative tracking the status and experiences of children in newcomer families, especially those growing up in families from Latin America and Asia. ( http://www.albany.edu/mumford/ ) | ||
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| The National Center for Educational Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education | ||
| Is the primary federal agency charged with collecting and analyzing data about education in the United States. Four recent reports provide the most up-to-date official analyses of school-related data: Conditions of Education, 2005; Digest of Education Statistics, 2003; Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2004; Projections of Education Statistics to 2013. All these reports are downloadable from the Center's website. ( http://nces.ed.gov/edstats ) | ||
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| Scholars Who Investigate the Causes and Consequences of Inequality | ||
| Walter R. Allen and Daniel Solorzano | ||
| Professors of education at the University of California, Los Angeles, are sociologists who study the access and participation of African Americans and Latinos in higher education. Their CHOICES Project examines these students' experiences moving through K-12 schooling into higher education, graduate and professional school, and careers. The project's website provides useful information about resources related to increased college access, equity, and opportunity, including links to websites that identify college opportunity resources. ( http://www.choices.gseis.ucla.edu/index.html ) | ||
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| Jean Anyon | ||
| Professor of urban education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, studies the intersection of social class, race, the political economy, and education in two recent books, Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban School Reform (Teachers College Press, 1997), and Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement (Routledge, 2005). For information about Professor Anyon, visit her home page (http://web.gc.cuny.edu/urbaneducation/Anyon/). ( http://web.gc.cuny.edu/urbaneducation/Anyon/ ) | ||
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| David Berliner | ||
| Professor and former dean of the School of Education at Arizona State University, has analyzed the role of poverty in the failure of schools to reform in ways that increase successful schooling for the nation's most disadvantaged children. See his paper "Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform" (available online at http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/EPRU/documents/EPSL-0508-116-EPRU.pdf). ( http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/EPRU/documents/EPSL-0508-116-EPRU.pdf ) | ||
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| Materials for Classroom Use | ||
| Fourth R | ||
| Is published semiannually by the Human Rights Education program (HRE) of Amnesty International USA (AIUSA). HRE facilitates the teaching of human rights by supporting teachers of kindergarten through college as well as educators working in non-formal settings. Fourth R provides teachers with information and instructional materials to engage their students in studying topics related to students' educational rights. ( http://www.amnestyusa.org/education/4thr.html ) | ||
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| The National Center for Education Statistics includes on its site a "Student's Classroom" | ||
| Provides statistical information about schools, colleges, and public libraries in an easily searchable format. It allows students (and teachers) to play games, take quizzes, and build skills about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians. ( http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/index.asp?flash=true ) | ||
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