November 2010 | Volume 68 | Number 3

Closing Opportunity Gaps

Feature Articles

Perspectives / Getting a Grip on the Gaps

Marge Scherer

Listen here.

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Double Take

Reviews, research, and relevant reads.

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Think Big, Bigger … and Smaller

Richard E. Nisbett

Large-scale thinking is essential, but smaller interventions also have notable effects.

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Leaving Nothing to Chance

Karin Chenoweth

High-performing, high-poverty schools show how to create the right conditions under which all kids can learn.

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Integrated Schools: Finding a New Path

Gary Orfield, Erica Frankenberg and Genevieve Siegel-Hawley

As a multiracial generation of children enters our schools, the lessons of Brown are more important than ever.

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Resegregation: What's the Answer?

Jonathan Kozol, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Susan Eaton and Patricia Gándara

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The Myth of Pink and Blue Brains

Lise Eliot

Girls don't think pink, and boys don't think blue. In fact, neuroscientists find few reliable differences between boys' and girls' brains.

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Gender-Friendly Schools

Kelley King, Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens

Boys and girls do learn differently, these authors say.

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Students Without Homes

Vicky S. Dill

How can we make sure that school offers homeless children a safe place to learn?

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Roadblocks on the Information Highway

Donna Celano and Susan B. Neuman

The digital divide is far from closed.

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Dismantling Rural Stereotypes

James A. Bryant Jr.

Idyllic stereotypes obscure the poverty and special circumstances that rural schools face.

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Overcoming Triple Segregation

Patricia Gándara

Latino students often face language, cultural, and economic isolation.

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Another Inconvenient Truth: Race and Ethnicity Matter

Willis D. Hawley and Sonia Nieto

Practices that are responsive to the needs of students of color enhance the learning of all.

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Opening Digital Doors

Donna DeGennaro

The Tech Goes Home program not only teaches families computer literacy, but it also puts computer ownership within their reach. Watch the video at http://vimeo.com/5115492.

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Departments

Research Says … / Some Summer Programs Narrow Learning Gaps

Jane L. David

Low-income students benefit from well-planned programs.

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Art and Science of Teaching / When Practice Makes Perfect … Sense

Robert J. Marzano

What kind of practice is most effective?

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Digitally Speaking / E-Readers: Get Ready for the Revolution

William M. Ferriter

Electronic books are rapidly becoming the norm.

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Principal Connection / Crisis as Opportunity

Joanne Rooney

A crisis can change your ways.

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ASCD Community in Action

News and resources from ASCD.

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Among Colleagues / How Can We Improve Formative Assessment?

Question contributed by James Han. Responses by Ben Shuldiner, Ron Klemp, and Tracy Broccolino.

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Online Only

Got Opportunity?

Russell J. Quaglia, Kristine M. Fox and Michael J. Corso

Students tell us what would improve their school experience.

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Questioning Our Beliefs and Biases

John Krownapple, Razia F. Kosi and Shannon Keeny

A Maryland school district asked its school employees to examine privilege, perception, and practice.

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Demystifying College

Jessica Singer Early and Meredith DeCosta-Smith

A pilot program helps teens meet the challenge of writing the admissions essay.

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EL Study Guide

Naomi Thiers

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Inservice Guest Blogger

Richard E. Nisbett on the respective roles of schools and society in closing achievement gaps.

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