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American Psychological Association
At the American Psychological Association's web page, you can link to journals and resources related to many topics in this chapter.
Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution conducts policy research in a variety of areas.
Electronic Policy Network
This is the web site of a consortium of public policy and advocacy groups. By visiting the "other resources" section, you can find links to groups that deal with topics in this chapter, including poverty, education, and families.
Rand Organization
The Rand Organization conducts research related to public policy, including child policy.
Social Class and Success in School
Education Weekhttp://edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=15poverty.h20http://edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=13child.h21=poverty
Two articles from Education Week discuss the relationship between family income and school success.
Institute for Research on Poverty
You can find information about a variety of topics, including education, at the web site of this research institute at the University of Wisconsin.
National Center for Children in Poverty
This research center's mission is "identifying strategies prevent child poverty in the United States and improve the lives of low-income children and families."
Poverty and Learning
This "digest" from ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, gives you a thorough background on the connection between SES and school achievement, along with a few resources for further research.
Race, Ethnicity and School Success
Racism and the Achievement Gap
This article from the weekly publication, Education Week, includes a small list of relevant web resources.
The Significance of Race in the Racial Gap in Academic Achievement
This article by two education professors explores a variety of factors, including social class and cultural factors, that might contribute to racial differences in school success.
Reasons for Low Achievement Among Low-Status Students
Consortium on Chicago School Research
You can read several publications detailing different aspects of how schools in the nation's second-largest city are trying to raise achievement of all students.
Family and Community
A helpful collection of materials on a variety of family/school topics from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory's Pathways to Improvement series.
Parent Involvement
The weekly publication Education Week has created this "hot topic" summary of information and resources on how schools and parents can work effectively together.
National Parent Information Network
Presented by two of the clearinghouses of ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, this network provides an extensive library of online publications for teachers and parents, as well as newsletters and links to other organizations.
Strong Families, Strong Schools
This 1994 publication was prepared for the U.S. Department of Education to help families learn how to promote their children's success in school, and to help schools learn to work effectively with their students' families.
Tracking
The weekly publication Education Week has created this "hot topic" summary of information and resources on ability grouping.
Urban Teachers
This is the web site archiving past issues of The Standard, published by the National Association of State Boards of Education. Scroll down to the Winter 2000 issue to read "High-Quality Urban School Teachers," an article about the difficulties in retaining good teachers at high-poverty schools in big cities.
Do Schools Equalize Opportunity?
Toward Resiliency
This publication from the U.S. Department of Education examines factors that help at-risk students make it to college.
Traditional versus Revisionist Interpretations
Henry Giroux
This site includes a short summary of critical theorist Henry Giroux's positions on education and links to several of his papers.
