Campbell, Patricia, Eric Jolly, Lesli Hoey and Lesley K. Perlman
Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc.
Upping the Numbers: Using Research-Based Decision-Making to Increase Diversity in the Quantitative Disciplines, 2002
This report presents research-based recommendations for specific strategies to increase participation and progress by underrepresented student populations in fields such as engineering, information technology and business.

Committee on Increasing High School Students’ Engagement and Motivation to Learn
National Research Council
Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students' Motivation to Learn, 2003
This book discusses changes that hold the greatest promise for increasing disadvantaged students’ motivation to learn. It looks at various approaches to reform through different methods of instruction and assessment, adjustments in school size, vocational teaching, and other key areas. It also gives examples of innovative schools, classrooms and out-of-school programs that have proved successful in getting high school kids excited about learning.

Ferguson, R.F.
Urban Education, 2003, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 460–507
“Teachers' Perceptions and Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap”
Scholars have documented that black students enter kindergarten with weaker reading skills than their white counterparts and that this disparity sometimes persists through secondary school. This article evaluates how schools can close this gap by examining teachers’ and students’ perceptions, behaviors, beliefs and work habits.

Hoffman, Nancy
Jobs for the Future
Challenge, Not Remediation: The Early College High School Initiative
This report describes early college high schools, discusses partnerships that are creating these schools and explains the policy implications.