VIDEO: Ending the Gap Symposium
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'Ending the Gap' DVD set now available
Order your four-disc set documenting NYSUT's October 2008 'Ending the Gap' conference. It's free!
Achievement Gap VIDEO: 'New York Now' focuses on achievement gap
WMHT public television's Susan Arbetter talks to stakeholders at NYSUT's three-day "Every Child Counts" symposium.
DOWNLOAD: New York Teacher special report on NYSUT's 'Ending the Gap' symposium
New York Teacher's special coverage of NYSUT's recent symposium.
AUDIO: President Iannuzzi: Ending the Gap
Access to health care complicates efforts to end the achievement gap in schools.
Ending the Gap: A Complex Social Challenge
New York state's many successes in education mask a problem with dire consequences - a wide achievement gap that discriminates by income and race.
VIDEO: 'Every Child Counts'
Get an inside look at the efforts of NYSUT members who are working to make sure that every child receives access to quality education from pre-K through post-grad.
Presentation Downloads (PDF)
- Kati Haycock: Raising Achievement and Closing Gaps: Lessons from Schools on the Performance Frontier
- Pedro Noguera: In Pursuit of Equity and Excellence in Education: Ten Principles of Equitable Educational Practice
- James Crawford: No Child Left Behind: A Diminished Vision of Civil Rights
- Debra J. Ackerman: Effective Pre-School: What Research Tells Us
- Hamilton Lankford: Teacher Quality, Recruitment and Retention
- Allan R. Odden: Linking School Resources to Strategies to Double Student Performance and Close the Achievement Gap
Workshop Podcasts (MP3)
Each MP3 file is approximately 90 minutes long and 14MB in size.
- 1. Effective Early Childhood Education
- 2. Equity and Equality-Education Finance
- 3. Preparing Our Teacher and Leadership Corps
- 4. Raising Achievement for English Language Learners
- 5. Teacher Quality, Recruitment and Retention
- 10. Parent and Family Engagement - Why It Matters and How to Encourage More of It