Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Teaching Programs

The Educational Testing Service has released its second edition of "Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Teaching Programs." The report updates and expands research from 2003 and focuses on whether gaps in experience and life conditions have narrowed, stayed the same or improved. Researchers looked at 16 factors related to life experiences and conditions that correlate to development and academic achievement. 6/2/2009