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Our mission is to bridge research and practice by framing important issues, producing and disseminating new research and distilling the implications for action by decision makers. The AGI promotes excellence with equity as the defining goal. Not only should there be group proportional equality-where group-level characteristics such as race or socioeconomic status have no bearing on an individual's educational achievement-there should also be excellence

Additional information to parents about their child's missing assignments and grades helps parents motivate their children more effectively and changes parents' beliefs about their child's effort in school. Parents also become more aware that their child does not tell them enough about their academic progress. These mechanisms drive an almost .20 standard deviation improvement in math standardized test scores and GPA for high school students. T

"The intervention, a brief in-class writing assignment, significantly improved the grades of African American students and reduced the racial achievement gap by 40%. These results suggest that the racial achievement gap, a major social concern in the United States, could be ameliorated by the use of timely and targeted social-psychological interventions."

from NEA