Achievement Gap
A Case Study Of A Charter School That Is Beating The Odds Of The Achievement Gap
... an achievement gap, by definition, indicates that somewhere someone has deemed what are the most crucial aspects that students need to learn, and certain groups aren’t obtaining or demonstrating a fluency ...
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Examining the Achievement Gap Between Fifth Grade Girls and Boys in Writing
... Ethnographies and phenomenological studies are other qualitative approaches. These approaches were not ideal for this project as both designs differ from the instrumental case design that was implored in this study. ...
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Moving the goalposts: Education policy and 25 years of the Black/White achievement gap
... Black/White achievement gap in Britain (Rampton, 1981) and the Black Caribbean group retains huge significance educationally and politically (Figueroa 2004; Warmington, 2014); they are one of the most ...
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THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP - PEDAGOGY OR DEMOGRAPHICS? NYS SUBURBAN SCHOOLS STUDY
... the achievement gap between two pairs of schools in suburban Long Island NY by using selected items from the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013 Teacher ...
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Rochester City School District Charter Schools: Decreasing the Achievement Gap?
... The achievement gap in the classroom between socioeconomic statuses has been around for decades. However, it was not significantly mainstreamed until President George W. Bush and the Bush Administration ...
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A quantitative synthesis of the immigrant achievement gap across OECD countries
... immigrant achievement gap is a homogenous phenomenon across ...the gap and requires first looking at it unconditionally, as methodologies for controlling demographic variables in published studies ...
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Examining the Myth of Accountability, High-Stakes Testing, and the Achievement Gap
... accountability have led to a slowdown in the growth of student success in the United States. Reardon, Greenberg, Kalogrides, Shores, & Valentino (2012) found that improvement in our NAEP scores was more rapid before ...
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A Quantitative Analysis of School-level Factors and Their Impact on the Racial Achievement Gap
... an achievement gap was present within this sample, what role poverty played in the racial achievement gap, the student’s attitudes about schools, as well as if there were observed differences ...
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School Calendar and the Socioeconomic Achievement Gap
... Since this study focused on students from low socioeconomic backgrounds it was necessary to address the socioeconomic achievement gap. The results of this study reveal that the school calendar, in ...
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Moving the goalposts : education policy and 25 years of the Black/White achievement gap
... Black/White achievement gap in Britain (Rampton, 1981) and the Black Caribbean group retains huge significance educationally and politically (Author 4, 2014; Figueroa 2004); they are one of the most ...
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An Examination of the K-12 Black-White Achievement Gap in Mississippi
... the achievement gap, if a teacher does not speak the same “language” as the student, and then it easily becomes apparent why black students lag as early as ...Literacy Achievement Gap Grades ...
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Educational Policy Development For Closing The Black And White Achievement Gap
... an achievement or opportunity gap between students of color and White ...term achievement gap refers to the learning deficits that students of color experience in math and reading, while ...
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Characteristics of Effective Reading Language Arts Teachers in Closing the Achievement Gap
... Theme 13: District professional development does not support teachers in closing the achievement gap. When asked specifically about their perceptions of district professional development, participants were ...
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Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap
... Sizeable achievement differences by race appear in early grades, but substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap and particularly about its ...
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Taming the tide of achievement gap by managing parental role in learner discipline
... academic achievement and reducing educational inequities in underachieving ...of achievement gap? A qualitative empirical approach was employed in this study, with the semi-structured interview as ...
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Educational Outcomes For Aboriginal School Students In Tasmania: Is The Achievement Gap Closing?
... relative achievement in numeracy and reading deteriorates over their schooling ...educational achievement gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children as they progress through their school ...
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Will the U.S. Poverty Achievement Gap Narrow by 2015? Probably Not
... Over the past few years, there have been occasional statements by educational leaders, politicians, and news magazine columnists to the effect that progress in “closing the achievement gap” has been made. ...
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Equality in Education: Solutions Aimed at Closing the Achievement Gap in Mississippi Public Schools
... According to the Department of Education, a child’s “brain capacity develops 90 percent before a child reaches age 5” (2013). This means that those students who do not participate in high-quality preschools have the ...
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School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap
... on achievement and, more importantly, finds that coefficients identified from non-movers are very similar in magnitude to coefficients identified from a sample of school switchers (Hanushek, Kain, and Rivkin ...
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Closing the achievement gap with family-school partnerships
... The achievement gap by socioeconomic ...the achievement gap by SES, noting that this gap increases as students progress through ...this gap using eligibility for the National ...
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