This article focuses on documenting health disparities and the need for careful consideration on how and why information on race/ethnicity is collected and presented. The …
This case study examines the curatorial challenges of producing a very large exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History from 1999 to 2003. …
This article describes a study conducted to understand the use of the concepts of “race” and “ethnicity” in epidemiological and public health research, which have …
This research paper from the Center for Resource Management (CRM) summarizes initial findings of a case study investigating the process and effects of high school …
A recent sudy by the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), Principals in the Public: Engaging Community Support (2002), found that communications, marketing, public …
This is a comprehensive review of recent research on the contributions of diverse teachers to the education of both white and minority students. The report …
This policy report describes emerging efforts by communities such as Boston, Oakland, New York City, and Sacramento to convert large, comprehensive high schools into "education …
This 2004 report gives a broad overview of the work of The Education Alliance at Brown University. Featured highlights of Alliance work include: leaders helping …
This research paper highlights the overlap in recommended practices from two emerging areas of educational research: academic literacy development of adolescents, and English language learners …
Higher numbers of English language learners (ELLs) are enrolling in U.S. middle and high schools than ever before. Content area teachers may now have more …
In 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug BiDil to treat heart failure in self-identified black patients. The drug itself is …
This publication is part of a series developed by the National Council of La Raza, in collaboration with The Education Alliance, to assist schools in …
This research paper is part of a series investigating how online technologies can support the professional learning of K-12 educators. The authors conducted a study …
This research paper is part of a series investigating how online technologies can support professional learning for K-12 educators. This paper describes the design features …
This research paper is part of a series investigating how online technologies can support the professional learning of K-12 educators. The authors conducted a study …
This teacher's guide invites professional developers, teacher educators, and teachers to examine their beliefs, perceptions, behaviors, and educational practices with respect to diversity in education. …
This teacher's guide invites professional developers, teacher educators, and teachers to examine their beliefs, perceptions, behaviors, and educational practices with respect to diversity in education. …
This research paper is part of a series investigating how online technologies can support professional learning. This paper, from the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), …
Developed by the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), this is a resource for teachers, parents, and administrators involved with two-way immersion (TWI) programs, particularly those …
This teacher's guide invites professional developers, teacher educators, and teachers to examine their beliefs, perceptions, behaviors, and educational practices with respect to diversity in education. …
For the past five years, the state of Maine has focused on adolescent literacy as an important part of its school improvement efforts statewide. This …
English language learners in U.S. middle and high schools face significant challenges from state writing assessments, and data suggest that they do not fare well. …
Building on a previous seminar held in March 2005, and recognizing the increased role philanthropic foundations play in public education, the Alliance convened an interactive …
This publication is part of a series developed by the National Council of La Raza, in collaboration with The Education Alliance, to assist schools in …
Drawing from five separate research studies, this book outlines the policies, structures, and supports that states and school districts in the region (Massachusetts, New York, …
As the student population in our schools becomes increasingly diverse, many teachers need professional development to build cultural competencies-the skills and awareness related to issues …
This report is based on a three-year study of the design of New York's Regional Network Strategy and its subsequent implementation activities, including the development …
In this article, Duster outlines how medical research has been used to reify that the category of race has genetically, sufficiently distinctive features, and how …
The Education Alliance at Brown University, working in partnership with Hezel Associates, produced this literature review on instructional coaching to serve as a resource to …
The goal of this work was to provide a foundation for quantitative assessment of H2O abundance of terrestrial and extraterrestrial geologic materials using visible-near infrared …
This zip file contains copies of Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program Community Rating System Biennial Reports to Congress (2006-2016) requested by …
This Toolkit, developed by Jobs for the Future, takes district reform leaders and their partners through the process of planning a portfolio of excellent schools, …
Images used in AM282 Mathematics of Shape with Applications to Computer Vision with Matlab program written by Joan Glaunes that computes an optimal diffeomorphism in …
In this article, the authors explore the history of the development of “BiDil,” the first drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration marketed for …
In this article, Sue et. al. define microaggressions, and explore how they play out in the therapist-client relationship. Microaggressions are “brief, commonplace, daily verbal, behavioral …
The Education Alliance at Brown University, working in partnership with Hezel Associates, produced this literature review on professional learning communities to serve as a resource …
This report summarizes a symposium held in the summer of 2007 by The Education Alliance and The Urban Education Policy Program. The symposium convened over …
"Arshifat Filastin wa al-filastiniyun" (Archiving Palestine and the Palestinians). In Zakaria Muhammad, Khalid Farraj, Salim Tamari, and Issam Nassar, Eds. Awraq `a’iliyya: Dirasat fi al-tarikh …
This perspective piece addresses the practice by physicians of using subjective visual assessments to decide the race of a patient, and using this information to …
In this article, Ford and Airhihenbuwa work to build capacity for Critical Race Theory (CRT) among those conducting health equity research by describing their Public …
The complete first edit — videography, recording, and editing by Peter Bussigel — of a filmed performance of generative text based on 'The Image' from …
Sociologists Fujimura and Rajagopalan present findings from an ethnographic research study conducted regarding the study of human genetic variation in its relation to common complex …
Recently, genetic association findings for nicotine dependence, smoking behavior, and smoking-related diseases converged to implicate the chromosome 15q25.1 region, which includes the CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 cholinergic nicotinic …
Background: HIV counseling and testing is considered an important component of HIV prevention and treatment. This paper examines the characteristics of young males and females …
Background: After more than 25 years, public health programs have not been able to sufficiently reduce the number of new HIV infections. Over 7,000 people …
Although forests have diminished globally over the past 400 years, forest cover has increased in some areas, including India in the last two decades. Aggregate …
This paper develops a growth model characterized by ability-biased technological transition in which the evolution of technology, education attainment, and wage inequality is consistent with …
We present a model where groups attempt to influence policies using both bribes (plata, Spanish for silver) and the threat of punishment (plomo, Spanish for …
This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human …
