This space is for Texas Forums, E3 Alliance, Austin Voices for Education and Youth, United Way and other partners who join us to contribute their thoughts, research, questions, ideas, and record of this project.
This page may have to migrate to its own wetpaint site.

For more information about this project:

• Blog postings for this project.
  
• Posting introducing the project.
  

Framing the issue for Central Texas

I've set up a separate wiki to develop the localized version of this framework.

9.14.07: The guide is done. Here is is!!!

Getting Organized

What are the categories (pages) we need to set up for keeping track of this project?

• forum schedule (calendar)
• research / evaluation
• reports from forums
• partner contact information
• materials
• slide shows
• links to issue briefs
• graphics we can use for our issue book and web sites
  

This is our playground. Our web sites are our more formal face to the world. How do we keep this from being duplicative? What materials do we put here? Rough drafts that we want to put out for comment and then finalize and post to our web sites?

Should we start a wetpaint site JUST for Achievement Gap? Yep, Done here!
[1.18.08 We never migrated to the new site. I will try to delete it.]

Kettering Foundation research agenda:

According to Kettering:
"This research is designed to better understand what people do as a result of participating in forums that address the gap in achievement between minority and non-minority public schools studentst? How do forum participants rename the problem? How do they think the problem should be solved? What do participants say they are willing to do? Their hypothesis is that the renaming of this problem will be dependent on the socio-economic circumstances of the schools and the communities where forums take place. And since communities will rename the problem differently, there will be divergent views and strategies for how to address the problem."


BUT...There doesn't seem to be a research protocol for answering this question, nor are there adequate support systems for gathering the data and ensuring the consistency and quality of the data.

1. 18. 08 First six sites completed!!!
Final report on the project
Final report submitted to the Kettering Foundation