Videos

Presenting insights from an exploratory investigation of successful districtwide school reforms, this seven-minute video outlines how public school systems in four big cities reduced ethnic and racial disparities in academic achievement while raising student performance overall.

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Donna Ford, professor of special education at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development, discusses what is needed to close the achievement gap between white and black students.

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On April 7, The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation held a discussion of the book In Plain Sight, Simple, Difficult Lessons from New Jersey's Expensive Effort to Close the Achievement Gap by Gordon MacInnes. The author and expert panelists discussed the lessons learned by these districts as well as the implications for state and federal policy.

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