On April 18th, educators, researchers and policy makers met at the Mondavi Center to hear presentations and talk with the authors of the Connecting the Dots and Closing the Gap Paper Series. The powerpoint presentations are available here.

Powerpoints and presenters:

• Narrowing The Multiple Achievement Gaps in California: Ten Goals For the Long Haul – Tom Timar (for Norton Grubb)
• State Policies for Closing the Achievement Gap – David N. Plank
• A False Dilemma: Should Decisions about Education Resource Use Be Made at the State or Local Level? – Marguerite Roza
• The Achievement Gap in California: Context, Status, and Approaches for Improvement – Eva Baker
• Teaching All of California’s Children Well: Teachers and Teaching to Close the Achievement Gap – Julie Maxwell-Jolly
• Accessing High-Quality Instructional Strategies – Edmund Hamann & Janelle Reeves
• Organizational Strategies for Addressing California’s Educational Achievement Gap – Douglas Mitchell
• School Climate and Student Achievement – Bud Mehan
• Improving High Schools as a Strategy for Closing California’s Achievement Gap – Russell Rumberger
• Partnering With Communities to Promote Student Success – Nancy Erbstein & Elizabeth Miller