This article discusses strategies of detracking students, working with families (i.e. community schools), and better ways of working with students of diverse backgrounds and how these strategies worked to close the achievement gaps.
This article describes how testing has changed, especially since ESSA. Some states have dropped graduation required testing and even teacher evaluations tied to testing. Great article.
This article uses a Pennsylvania Elementary school and its partners as an example of community schools and what it can do to help make education in and out of the classroom more attainable.