PLC Director PLC’s PI (Dr. Hugh Dunn) and cross-agency partners (Dr. Malkeet Singh and Dr. April Burke) co-authored the paper, Revealing the Variation in Performance of Hawaii’s Asian Pacific Islander Subgroups on the English Language Arts Smarter Balanced Assessment: Implications for Policy and Practice, which received the 2018 Hawaii Educational Research Association (HERA) Distinguished Paper Award. In this paper, the authors report accurate estimates of the achievement gap patterns on the English Language Arts Smarter Balanced Assessment between different subgroups of students in Hawaii. They employed a multilevel framework to examine the reading achievement gaps between White students and their peers comprising the traditional Asian Pacific Islander (API) subgroup: Asian, Filipino, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander. The results indicate the need for reporting disaggregated performance of the subgroups that make up the API group. Dunn and colleagues demonstrate that API aggregates resulted in overestimated gaps when not using a multilevel regression. Lastly, they discuss the potential implications of these findings, argue the need for collaborative partnerships, and offer recommendations for improving student achievement and closing achievement gaps. In addition, Dunn and colleagues received a formal invitation to present their research in New York at the 2018 American Educational Research Association annual meeting.