Subject Guides: Closing the Achievement Gap: Welcome

Successful Strategies

Articles

A BRIEF INTERVENTION DESIGNED TO IMPROVE SOCIAL AWARENESS AND SKILLS TO IMPROVE LATINO COLLEGE STUDE
Advancing by Degrees
Closing the Achievement Gap in Higher Education: An Organizational Learning Perspective
Closing the Social-Class Achievement Gap: A Difference-Education Intervention Improves First-Generat
College for All: Gaps Between Desirable and Actual P–12 Math Achievement Trajectories for College
Defining College Readiness from the Inside Out: First-Generation College Student Perspectives
GAINS AND GAPS: CHANGING INEQUALITY IN U.S. COLLEGE ENTRY AND COMPLETION
Increased Structure and Active Learning Reduce the Achievement Gap in Introductory Biology
Intentionally Successful: Improving Minority Student College Graduation Rates
Mind the Gaps
Modeling Retention at a Large Public University: Can At-Risk Students Be Identified Early Enough to
Northwestern University; A strategy that narrows academic achievement gap by 63 percent
Persistent Problems in Precollege Mathematics, Science, and Environmental Education
Racial and ethnic achievement gap trends: Reversing the progress toward equity?
School Context and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement
Sense of Belonging and Persistence in White and African American First-Year Students
The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor: New Evidence and Possible Expla
What Works in College Outreach: Assessing Targeted and Schoolwide Interventions for Disadvantaged St

The Achievement Gap

Figure 23.1. Graduation rates from first institution attended for first-time, full-time bachelor’s degree-seeking students at 4-year postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and time to completion: Cohort entry year 2010

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/raceindicators/indicator_RED.asp

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Winter 2016–17, Graduation Rates component. See Digest of Education Statistics 2017,

Presentations

Access to Success in America: Where Are We? What Can We Do?

Websites

Achievement Gap Initiative
Education Trust
National Center for Education Statistics
Math Teaching and Learning Center
The Math TLC is where UW-Stout students learn basic math skills in a people-oriented, technology-enhanced environment. Teachers start daily classroom sessions with a short lecture, then students begin online homework assignments with help from teachers and specially trained peer tutors.