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Welcoming Statements
Kathleen McCartney
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June 2007 Welcoming Statements |
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parenting, peers, peer culture, school reform, teacher quality, college, out-of-school time, youth
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Last Year’s Conference and How We’re Building On What We Learned
Ronald Ferguson
Conference
June 2007 Ferguson provides a summary of key factors presented at the 2006 AGI Conference that contribute to the nation's achievement gaps. |
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black youth, youth culture, music, racism, politics, youth, hip-hop
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Race, Politics and Sex: Understanding the Attitudes and Behaviors of African American Youth
Cathy Cohen
Conference
June 2007 Cohen explores why the same black youths’ behaviors often do not align with their mostly conventional aspirations. Cohen suggests that black youths’ feelings of being devalued culturally and “locked out” of opportunities structurally may explain some of the misalignment between their aspirations and behaviors. |
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stereotype threat, IQ, theories of intelligence
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How Racial Stereotypes Color Self-Perceptions of Ability and Why it Matters.
Joshua Aronson
Conference
June 2007 Aronson presents research on stereotype threat and academic performance. His recent school intervention results in Texas demonstrate that performance can be substantially improved with psychological interventions that include using concepts of malleable intelligence and role models for students. |
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youth culture, racial identity, behavior, peer culture, social identity, youth
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Fitting in matters: markers of in-group belonging and academic outcomes academic outcomes
Daphna Oyserman
Conference
June 2007 Oyserman shares evidence that physical similarity to one’s racial-ethnic in-group has a bigger impact on academic attainment for boys than for girls. |
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music, hip-hop, behavior, self-esteem, acting ghetto, black youth, youth culture, youth
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Hip-Hop and self-esteem
Ronald Ferguson
Conference
June 2007 Ferguson discusses findings that self esteem is higher among young black males and females. The same is not true for non-blacks. His results highlight the influence of hip hop culture on identity formation and expression for black youth. |
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music, hip-hop, youth culture, engagement, oppositional culture, youth
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Messages in the Music: How Rap Lyrics both Encourage and Discourage School Engagement.
Travis L. Gosa
Conference
June 2007 Gosa presents evidence about the extent of anti-achievement messaging in hip-hop music developed from his content analysis of 30,000 lyrics between 1981 and 2005. He finds three main types of negative achievement-related messages. |
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ELA, English language instruction, code-switching, instruction
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How English teachers lead students to code-switch linguistically.
Rebecca Wheeler
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June 2007 Wheeler presents “Code-Switching”, a new method for teaching English. She uses a compare and contrast technique to teach students and teachers how to translate “informal” dialect English into “formal” standard English. The results indicate strong effects. |
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engagement, self-esteem, drop-out, social identity, SES, poverty, motivation, youth
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How Enriched Images of Possible Selves Enhance School Engagement: Evidence from an Experiment
Daphna Oyserman
Conference
June 2007 Daphna Oyserman presents findings from an experiment on how enriched images of “possible selves” enhance school engagement. She finds that while youth value education, they may believe that behaviors required to achieve academically conflict with behaviors needed to fit in socially. Her experiment tested ways that enhanced images of possible selves can improve academic achievement. |
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drop-out, behavior, parenting, parent's education, social structures, engagement, community, youth culture, youth
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Helping High School Dropouts Make Sense of their Lives and Transition into Productive Adulthood.
Robert Clark
Conference
June 2007 Clark describes his experiences as the director of Youth Build Newark mentoring youth who have dropped out of high school. He shares the challenges low income youths 16 to 24 face and describes the supports they need to finish school and transition to productive adult lives. |
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instruction, student engagement
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Framing: Structures and Identity
Ronald Ferguson
Conference
June 2007 Ferguson presents evidence on five key classroom conditions as predictors of five types of student engagement in secondary school classrooms. |
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reform, accountability, school quality, leadership, teacher quality, instruction
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Accountability and School Improvement
Richard Elmore
Conference
June 2007 Elmore argues that schools respond to external pressures with the resources and capacities they have. Therefore, internally weak school will either stay the same or get worse with external pressure. |
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poverty, teacher quality, leadership, inequality
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High Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals
Helen Ladd
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June 2007 In North Carolina, Ladd finds a connection in high poverty schools between low test scores and low principle leadership ratings. She also finds that low-income students have less experienced teachers. |
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poverty, teacher quality, transfers, inequality, teacher recruitment, school reform, leadership, instruction
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Teacher Assignment in Low-income Schools
Susan Moore Johnson
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June 2007 Johnson presents results from a multi-year study examining issues related to the future of the nation’s teaching force. She discusses ways schools can attract teachers more successfully. |
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teacher quality, teacher qualifications, teacher experience
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Teacher Policy and the Achievement Gap
Thomas Kane
Conference
June 2007 Kane cautions that policies aimed at redistributing effective teachers should be based on high quality measures of effectiveness. He identifies prior effectiveness as the best current measure of a teacher’s future effectiveness. |
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discrimination, high school, resources, teacher quality, stereotypes, race, parenting, instruction
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Institutional and Everyday forms of Discrimination and Achievement Outcomes
Amanda Lewis
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June 2007 Lewis addresses patterns and meanings of racial differences in school settings. She reports on her study of achievement gaps in an affluent suburban school that has plentiful resources and an expressed commitment to eliminate race-based disparities. |
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acting white, achievement, parenting, SES, social structures, social norms, peers, stereotypes, racism, teacher-student interaction
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School Structures, Expectations, and Peer Dynamics in a Multiracial High School
John Diamond
Conference
June 2007 Diamond’s presentation focuses on how institutional arrangements in schools influence social identity. He finds that racial differences in advanced-course enrollments lead students of color to conflate racial categories with academic categories. |
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school environment, social structures, racial mix, engagement, identity, teacher-student interactions
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The Multiple Dimensions of Boundaries in U.S. Schools: Observations from the Northeast & South
Prudence Carter
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June 2007 Carter explores the relationship between school practices and the rigidity of “social” and “symbolic” boundaries. Carter found social boundaries to be more rigid in schools where students of color were the minority. |
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racial perceptions, teacher-student interactions, instruction
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How do we get Educators to Consider and Engage in the Topic of Race and Opportunity?
Mica Pollock
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June 2007 Mica Pollock reports on ways that educators may unintentionally contribute to racial achievement gaps. Her book, titled "Everyday Anti-racism", provides educators with practical strategies for avoiding biased practices. |
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instruction, peer culture, engagement, teacher-student interaction, trust, behavior, youth
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How Instruction and Peer Culture Affect Student Engagement in Several Domains: Evidence from the Tripod Project
Ron Ferguson
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June 2007 Ferguson describes a student engagement framework based on the Tripod survey data. It includes five student engagement targets, five classroom conditions for achieving the targets, and five organizational conditions for achieving and sustaining the classroom conditions. |
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college, college access, GPA, test scores, financial aid
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Potholes on the road to college
Managing college application among CPS students
Melissa Roderick
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June 2007 Roderick finds that factors beyond simply academic qualifications explain racial/ethnic differences in college participation. Over two-thirds of Chicago high school students chose colleges below their qualifications. |
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test score gaps, black-white gap, parenting, NLSY
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The Black-White Test Score Differential
Kevin Lang
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June 2007 Lang (reporting work with Sepulveda) explores how inclusion of certain key control variables affect black-white test score gaps in elementary school. Lang concludes that skill is transmitted across generations through its effect on parenting and other aspects of home environment. |
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poverty, employment, workforce development, SES, community
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Workforce Development Policies’ Effects on Children and Adolescents in Poverty
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
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June 2007 Yoshikawa explores connections between workforce development policies and child academic performance. He finds school performance of elementary school children is raised by increased parental employment only if there is an increase in income. |
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parenting, literacy, IQ
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Preschool Parent-Child Language Functions and Early School Literacy
Dodie Norton
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June 2007 Norton examines links between pre-school parent-child language functions and a child’s reading, oral expression and written-expression aptitude in grades 2 and 4. She compared school performance over time for two different cases. |
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parenting, depression, health, supports
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Aligning resources to enable families to accomplish the tasks that support children in learning in school
William Beardslee
Conference
June 2007 With families that are coping with mental health issues, children often lack supports conducive to learning. Beardslee shares findings on a number of interventions that have effectively increased resilience within at-risk families. |
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parenting, poverty, SES, cognitive development
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Parent Processes that Support School Readiness
Susan Landry
Conference
June 2007 Landry found that two parenting interventions, designed to help parents (from all backgrounds) avoid restrictive interactions and to increase responsiveness and warmth, positively affected preschool language scores. |
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