Addressing Achievement Gaps: Progress and Prospects for Minority and Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Students and English-Language Learners ETS Policy Notes: News from the ETS Policy Information Center SES ELL NAEP
- Author(s):
- Scatton, Linda H. (Ed.); Coley, Richard J. (Ed.); McBride, Amanda (Ed.)
- Publication Year:
- 2005
- Source:
- ETS Policy Notes, v13 n1, Win 2005
- Document Type:
- Periodical
- Page Count:
- 12
- Subject/Key Words:
- Achievement Gap, Educational Achievement, Minority Students, Socioeconomic Status (SES), English Language Learning (ELL), Lazer, Steve, Assessment Development, Gordon, Edmund, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Villegas, Ana Maria
Abstract
This issue of ETS Policy Notes (Volume 13, No. 1) provides highlights from the ETS Symposium on Addressing Achievement Gaps held on the ETS campus in Princeton, NJ, on October 20-21, 2004. More than 190 prominent scholars, practitioners, educators, and policymakers discussed addressing achievement gaps for minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged students and English language learners.