I dug deeper into the statistics of the Hawaiian public school education to gather more information about what students were achieving more than others and to possibly gather some hypothesis. I was able to go the the DOE (Department of Education) website of the state of Hawaii which has public records of the achievement levels of students that differentiate between female and male, ethnic background and socioeconomic background. Through this website, I was able to find that native islanders do have a significant achievement gap. In elementary school, they seem to show very little improvement throughout their time through the grades which is very important to note especially when doing the long experiment on how the new place-based curriculum improves a students scores and attitude towards school throughout their time in elementary. These will be helpful to use as comparisons when I finally have my own results. What I would like to find now though is more information on what could be leading to this achievement gap. What I could look for now is the exact curriculum that is taught in schools. I would like to try and get my hands on a TE (Teacher’s Edition) from an elementary Hawaiian classroom. The teacher’s edition is a book that mirrors the books students get for each subject. Having these TEs will help me to see exactly what is being encouraged in classrooms, but it is not always necessary to include all activities so an interview will be detrimental to the continued gathering of my research.