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is written based on reviews of the book. In your final paper, you will want to include citations from the book.] Bridging the Achievement Gap is a collection of
essays, most of which present quantitative data that demonstrates reform programs by school leaders can in fact reduce the gap between white, black and Hispanic students. Chub and Loveless (2002)
state: "[t]he average black or Hispanic student, in elementary, middle or high school, currently achieves at about the same level as the average white student in the lowest quartile of
white achievement" (p. 1). This is a horrifying statistic and, if true, even with all the many different reforms over the last two decades must be addressed. Ann Flanagan and
David Grissmer have a chapter in the book that reports where the largest gaps in achievement are found - in the Midwest and Northeast. In these regions, suburban and rural
students achieve well above average, at world-class standards. Urban students in these regions who are mostly low-income students of color, however, have some of the lowest scores in the entire
nation. Authors included in the book report numerous programs that have been successful in reducing the gap. Each program or initiative required the leadership of educators, principals, teachers, state
educational agencies, universities, and so forth. Alan Krueger and Diane Whitmore present their findings of Tennessees Project STAR, a class size reduction project in grades K-3. Nearly 12,000 African American
and White students participated in the program. All students achieved at higher levels in smaller classes. But, there was an interesting long-term result - the higher performance endured for African
American students but not for White students. The outcome was that the gap in achievement was narrowed. Molnar and colleagues also addressed the results of smaller class sizes. These authors
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