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__ Reputable Blog __
UC Study: 5 Findings on College Success for Low-Income Youth. (n.d.). //Edutopia//. Retrieved November 20, 2013, from[]

This article talks about location of school and its effect on student achievement. It discusses the different aspects that could improve schools in low income locations. There are 5 “findings” which include assets, student voices, diversity, connections between K-12 and higher education, and institutional supports. It goes into details on what a school can do to improve these findings and its positive effects.

This article will be useful in explaining the effects that location has on a student’s achievement. The article goes into specific effects and how location plays a role. I found this article very interesting because it was so relevant to the topic I was researching and gave solutions to making schools in low-income areas better.

__Database Article__
Public Schools: Comparisons of Achievement Results for Students Attending Privately Managed and Traditional Schools in Six Cities: GAO-04-62. (2003). GAO Reports, 1

This study compares schools from six different locations and looks at their achievement through test scores and other academic aspects. It looks specifically at students in 3, 4, and 5th grade in Phoenix, San Francisco, Denver, Detroit, St. Paul, and Cleveland. It compares them based on their state administered tests scores.

This article would also help when looking at how location effects a student’s achievement, and in this case, test scores. The article looks at 5 locations in different areas around the US and therefore would be effective when trying to see a correlation between location and achievement. I found this article very interesting because it looks very closely at these 5 locations and gives very detailed descriptions of the schools, their achievements, and comparisons between them.

__Summary Article__
Clemmitt, M. (2011, April 29). School reform. //CQ Researcher//, //21//, 385-408. Retrieved from []

This article focuses more on how teacher evaluations are determined based on test scores of students. It also goes into comparing the US to other countries and compares different states within the US. It argues that the quality of a teacher should not be determined by a student’s score on standardized tests but rather the true quality. Finally, the article talks about ways to improve test scores in the US and different approaches teachers can take to accomplish this.

Although the main topic of this article does not support my research, there is a lot of information in this article that can help. Much of the research within the article is comparing different states and countries and their test scores. It also discusses why some other states and countries are doing better on these standardized tests which can tie into location and the student’s achievement.

__Newspaper__
Tavernise, S. (2012, February 9). Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Show. //The New York Times//. Retrieved from[] and-poor-studies-show.html

This article discusses how the differences between economics are widening the achievement gap. The article compares lower income areas with higher income areas and the student achievement in those areas. It discusses how the gap between low and high income areas is widening and this, in turn, is widening the achievement gap between students.

This article will help to support the research because it compares incomes and how it effects student achievement. Although this does not compare specific areas, it discusses how lower income areas are widening the achievement gap. This will help support the idea that where a student lives will affect how a student performs in school. This also ties into the idea of funding effecting student achievement.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Class-Based vs. Race-Based Admissions. (2012, November 18). //The New York Times//. Retrieved from[|http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/opinion/class-based-vs-race-based- admissions.html]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This article focuses on diversity in schools and how it is difficult to have equal diversity when it is class-based admissions. They are saying that if universities and schools are not taking race into account, it is much harder for there to be equal diversity. The author suggests that in order to make schools equally diverse there must be raced-based admissions that take into account acceptance to less qualified students if they fit the racial profile needed.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Although this article is not directly related to location and achievement, it also talks about income and how income is correlated with race and thus adds to the diversity problem. It can be inferred that the lower income “races” are not as classroom-based qualified, therefore making it difficult to have equal diversity.