Evaluation of Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program Report
This 2023 Evaluation of the Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program for 2015-16 through 2021-22 presents the results of the annual AGR evaluation completed by the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC) within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The goal of this year’s evaluation was to examine the following main questions: How are AGR schools implementing the AGR program as specified by 2015 Wisconsin Acts 53 and 71? To what extent is AGR meeting intended outcomes, including impacts on standardized test scores and attendance? Are there differences between the three AGR strategies’ impacts on intended outcomes?
This three-page summary provides a brief synopsis of the full Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program report, highlighting key points, statistics, and diagrams.
This 2022 Evaluation of the Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program for 2015-16 through 2020-21 presents the results of the annual AGR evaluation completed by the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC) within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The goal of this year’s evaluation was to examine the following main questions: How are AGR schools implementing the AGR program as specified by 2015 Wisconsin Acts 53 and 71? To what extent is AGR meeting intended outcomes, including impacts on standardized test scores, attendance, and disciplinary events? Are there differences between the three AGR strategies’ impacts on intended outcomes?
2022 Evaluation of Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program
This two-page summary provides a brief synopsis of the full Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program report, highlighting key points, statistics, and diagrams.
2022 Summary Evaluation of Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction
This 2021 Evaluation of the Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program for 2015-16 through 2019-20 presents the results of the annual AGR evaluation completed by the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC) within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The goal of this year’s evaluation was to examine the following questions: How are AGR schools implementing the AGR program? To what extent is AGR meeting intended outcomes, including impacts on standardized test scores, attendance, and disciplinary events? The impact analysis examined how AGR students performed relative to non-AGR students in similar schools, while controlling for student and school characteristics.
2021 Evaluation of Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program
This two-page summary provides a brief synopsis of the full Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program report, highlighting key points, statistics, and diagrams.
2021 Summary Evaluation of Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction
The 2020 Evaluation of the Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program for 2015-16 through 2018-19 provides a detailed analysis including results from the second annual evaluation, focusing on programmatic impacts on test score growth, absences, and out-of-school suspensions during the 2015-16 through 2018-19 school years. The impact analysis examined how AGR students performed relative to non-AGR students in similar schools, while controlling for student and school characteristics.
2020 Evaluation of Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program
This two-page summary provides a brief synopsis of the full Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program report, highlighting key points, statistics, and diagrams.
2020 Summary Evaluation of Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction
The August 2019 Evaluation of the Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program report provides a detailed analysis of the challenges and impact of the Achievement Gap Reduction program. The report also details the strategies being implemented in the program to address the challenges, and the outcomes of the strategies.
2019 Evaluation of Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program report updated June, 2020.
2019 Evaluation of Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program
This two-page summary provides a brief synopsis of the full Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction Program report, highlighting key points, statistics, and diagrams.
2019 Summary Evaluation of Wisconsin Achievement Gap Reduction
Promoting Excellence for All: Web Resources
One of Wisconsin’s greatest strengths is the growing diversity of communities, schools, and workplaces. Diversity makes businesses more innovative and competitive, and a more diverse workforce leads to economic growth, opportunities, and progress. For Wisconsin to be innovative in the 21st century, and for communities to remain strong, all students must graduate college and career ready. As Wisconsin’s student population becomes increasingly diverse, the persistence of racial disparities in the educational system poses real challenges to opportunity and economic progress. These gaps are persistent, but not insurmountable.
Recognizing that the education of our students of color requires swift, targeted, and deliberate attention, then-State Superintendent Tony Evers convened a task force which launched the Promoting Excellence for All website. Promoting Excellence for All provides information and strategies successfully used by Wisconsin educators to raise achievement of students of color, closing the gap between them and their peers. These schools represent all grade levels, urban, rural, and suburban settings.
Achievement Gap Reduction Program Strategy Resource Guide
Achievement Gap Reduction (AGR) Program Strategy Resource Guide is available to assist AGR schools. The information provided is intended to connect schools with resources that may strengthen schools’ implementation of the AGR program. This resource guide is not an endorsement of any products or services offered by any of the organizations mentioned.
Resources for Coaches
The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) believes that coaching can promote educational equity by building educators' capacity to implement best practices in instruction and assessment.
Discover resources to support all coaches, including a Coaching Competency Practice Profile, on DPI’s coaching webpage.
In addition, DPI offers the Wisconsin Instructional Coaching Collaborative to engage instructional coaches throughout Wisconsin in deepening their coaching practice and content knowledge - specifically literacy and mathematics content knowledge. This includes equity mini-challenges and reviews of professional learning materials about coaching.