Below you will find resource articles, reports, videos, and websites containing research, data, and ideas that speak to the importance of community-based work to eliminate achievement gaps between student groups locally, regionally, and nationally.

• Achievement Gap between White and Black Students Still Gaping (2016). US News & World Report, https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2016/01/13/achievement-gap-between-white-and-black-students-still-gaping
  
  
• Addressing the African American Achievement Gap: Three Leading Educators Issue a Call to Action (2018). Young Children, https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/may2018/achievement-gap
  
  
• Closing the Achievement Gap (2001). Haycock, K., Ed Leadership, http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar01/vol58/num06/Closing-the-Achievement-Gap.aspx
  
  
• Detecting and Reducing Post-Traumatic Stress Among Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: A Multi-Agency Early Intervention Program (2019). Children and Youth Services Review, Rand, https://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP67939.html
  
  
• Groundwater Approach: Building a Practical Understanding of Structural Racism (2018) The Racial Equity Institute, https://www.racialequityinstitute.com/groundwaterapproach
  
  
• How Cities Can Act to Close the Achievement Gap (2018). Walsh, B., Harvard School of Education,  https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/18/06/how-cities-can-act-close-achievement-gap
  

• How Diversity Makes Us Smarter (2014). Phillips, K., Scientific American, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-makes-us-smarter/

• Learning from Schools that Close Opportunity Gaps (2017). Phi Delta Kappan, https://www.kappanonline.org/schools-that-close-opportunity-gaps/
  
  
• Reducing and Averting Achievement Gaps: Key Findings from the Report ‘Education Inequalities at the School Starting Gate’ and Comprehensive Strategies to Mitigate Early Skills Gaps (2017). Economic Policy Institute, https://www.epi.org/publication/reducing-and-averting-achievement-gaps/
  

• Young Learners, Missed Opportunities (2019). Gillespie, C., The Education Trust, https://edtrust.org/resource/young-learners-missed-opportunities/

• Closing the Achievement Gap: Lessons from Successful Schools (2005). US Department of Education, https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/hs/factsh/ctag_rpt.pdf
  
  
• Closing Achievement Gaps in Diverse and Low-Poverty Schools: An Action Guide for District Leaders (2018). Public Impact, https://publicimpact.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Closing_Achievement_Gaps_in_Diverse_and_Low-Poverty_Schools.pdf
  
  
• Closing Gaps – Sustaining Change (2016). NEA Foundation, https://www.neafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ClosingGapsSustainingChange.pdf
  

• Closing the Opportunity Gap: How Positive Outlier Districts in California Are Pursuing Equitable Access to Deeper Learning (2019).  Learning Policy Institute, https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/positive-outliers-closing-opportunity-gap-report

• If You Listen, We Will Stay: Why Teachers of Color Leave and How to Disrupt Teacher Turnover (2019). The Education Trust and Teach Plus, https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/edtrustmain/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/24162035/If-You-Listen-We-Will-Stay-Why-Teachers-of-Color-Leave-and-How-to-Disrupt-Teacher-Turnover-September-2019.pdf
  
  
• Poverty Amidst Plenty VI: On the Road to Progress for All (2018). Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County, https://aaccaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2018CNA.pdf
  
  
• School-Based Strategies for Narrowing the Achievement Gap (2017). Hanover Research, https://www.wasa-oly.org/WASA/images/WASA/1.0%20Who%20We%20Are/1.4.1.6%20SIRS/Download_Files/LI%202017/May-%20School-Based%20Strategies%20for%20Narrowing%20the%20Achievement%20Gap.pdf
  
  
• Stories of Closing Achievement Gaps Through Community Engagement (2009). National Education Association, http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/HE/PEPSuccessStories.pdf
  
  
• Who Plays, Who Pays?: Funding For and Access to Youth Sports (2019). Rand Reports, https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2581.html

• Closing the Achievement Gap (2016). Alliance – College Ready Public Schools, https://www.laalliance.org/apps/video/watch.jsp?v=118347
  
  
• Closing the Skills Gap (2018). Rethinking Learning, https://barbarabray.net/2018/09/02/closing-the-skills-gap/
  
  
• How City Leaders are Building Sustainable Diverse and Inclusive Communities (2019). ULI Europe Conference, https://urbanland.uli.org/sustainability/how-city-leaders-are-building-sustainable-diverse-and-inclusive-communities/ 

Local Resources

• Anne Arundel County Government, https://www.aacounty.org/
  
  
• Anne Arundel County Public Schools, http://www.aacps.org/
  
  
• Centro de Ayuda (Center of Help), https://centerofhelp.org/
  
  
• Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County, http://cfaac.org/

Regional or National Resources

• National Diversity Council, http://www.nationaldiversitycouncil.org/
  
  
• National Education Association, http://www.nea.org/home/20380.htm
  
  
• Nations Report Card, https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/
  
  
• Racial Equity Institute, https://www.racialequityinstitute.com/