Closing the Achievement Gap in Urban Schools

Below are the sessions on Closing the Achievement Gap presented at the 53rd Annual Fall Conference in Portland

• Sharing Success: Effective Strategies of High Performing, High Need Schools in California -- American Institutes for Research 
  
  
• Closing the Gaps in Postsecondary Enrollment: How Research & Evaluation Shapes District Practice -- Austin Independent School District
  
  
• Reinventing the Secondary School Experience -- Baltimore City Public Schools 
  
  
  
• Leveraging Higher Education Partnerships to Raise Student Achievement - Buffalo Public Schools/University of Buffalo
  
  
• Ensuring Alignment at All Levels: DC Public Schools Reform Strategy -- District of Columbia Public Schools
  
  

• Catapulting the Struggling Reader from Compliance to Commitment -- Hillsborough County Public Schools
  
  
• Empowerment Schools Initiative: Raising Achievement by Removing Barriers --
  School District of Philadelphia
  
  
• Early Intervention Methods Designed to Improve High School Completion Rates: Linking Multiple Pathways to High School Reform -- Portland Public Schools
  
  
• Starting Out Right in the Early Grades Cultivating a Data Culture in DC Schools -- District of Columbia Public Schools
  
  
• Is It Marriage or Divorce? Working With Your SES Provider! -- Jefferson County Public Schools
  
  
• Response to Intervention: Implementation, Challenges and Outcomes -- Minneapolis Public Schools
  
  
• Two Collaborative Approaches to (Re) Designing a Middle and High School -- Albuquerque Public Schools
  
  
• Putting the Focus on English Language Learners and High School Reform in Austin -- Austin Independent School District
  
  
• Equity and Excellence in Urban School Districts -- University of California Berkeley/San Francisco Unified School District/Boston Public Schools/ Hayward Unified School District
  
• Developing the College Readiness Indicator System: An Integrated Tool to Enhance the College-Going Culture -- Dallas Independent School District
  
  
• HOST-Hillsborough County Out of School Time -- Hillsborough County Public Schools
  
• Closing the Gap in Writing: The Oregon Writing Project at Work In Portland Schools -- Portland Public Schools
  
  

• A Data Driven Team Seeking Value Added Results through Urban Solutions --
  Richmond City Public Schools
  

• Empirical Validation of an On-line Literacy Program using DIBELS for Title I Students -- George Mason University
  
  
• Closing the Achievement Gap: The Promise and Pressures of an Early College Initiative -- Lehman College of the City University of New York/ Bronx Early College Academy (BECA)
  
  
• Reconceptualizing Data Use to Improve Student Learning -- The National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment
  
  
• Using Positive Behavior Support Systems to Enhance Academic Achievement in an Urban Context -- Austin Independent School District
  
  
• Using District Data as an Early Warning System to Support Struggling Students and As a System for Dropout Prevention and Recovery -- Austin Independent School District
  
  
• Quality Pre-K: A Bridge to Early Literacy Success in Buffalo Public Schools -- Buffalo Public Schools
  
  
• Improving Freshman Year Performance: Ninth Grade Success and High School Completion -- Dallas Independent School District
  
  
• Equity and Access: The New Frontier in Closing the Achievement Gap in Urban Schools -- Fresno Unified School District
  
  
• NAEP’s Trial Urban District Assessment: Closing the Gaps, Analyzing, and Disseminating the Data -- NAEP State Service Center at Westat
  
  
• Families Learning Together: A Literacy Workshop -- Portland Public Schools
  
  
• Cleveland Metropolitan School District TurnAround Strategy: Integrating a Research-based District Level Approach with a High Performance; High Poverty Readiness Model to Improve Student Achievement -- Cleveland Metropolitan School District
  
  
• Social-Emotional Learning and Resiliency Prove Missing Links to Increasing Academic Achievement and Graduation Rates -- Howard University
  
  
• Academic and Career Success for All Students: Districtwide Reform in Long Beach -- Long Beach Unified School District
  
  
• Research Partnerships That Work: Results from Milwaukee -- Milwaukee Public Schools/ University of Wisconsin - Madison