Introduction There is much to be said about the achievement gap. Indeed, there is an alarming chasm between top performers and many others that are further down the scoring and achievement spectrum. The most disturbing part of the problem is that th Continue Reading...
Differentiated Instruction and Closing the Achievement Gap It is not always easy to see how differentiated instruction is able to initiate an advantage in schools that are performing extremely low or how it could help in closing the achievement gap. Continue Reading...
Action plan: Closing the achievement gap of African American students Background Based on statistics, the performance of African American students in public schools is way too dismal compared to their peers. In addition, there is a clear difference i Continue Reading...
The achievement gap also may ultimately negatively affect the U.S. As it may cause the nation to become less competitive in the increasingly global communities (What is the…, 2009). In addition, research indicates that the achievement gap cont Continue Reading...
Action Plan StepsThe first step will be to gather two sets of information. One is a full review of the literature on the best practices for closing the achievement gap. The other is the information about the gap in Broward County specifically. We can Continue Reading...
Students, Prejudice and Risk Students learn to be prejudiced through experience with other persons; prejudice by others can lead to prejudice in students, especially if they feel that representatives of a group, such as teachers or persons of author Continue Reading...
Students, Prejudice and Risk Students learn to be prejudiced through experience with other persons; prejudice by others can lead to prejudice in students, especially if they feel that representatives of a group, such as teachers or persons of author Continue Reading...
Educational Attainment Culture plays a significant part in education as it serves as the background of a student’s experience, the foundation of the student’s ideas and beliefs, and the lens that shapes the student’s outlook. By tak Continue Reading...
societal concern for the welfare of disadvantaged young children and the negative effects poverty has on their academic performance. The outcome of this preoccupation largely takes the form of early childhood programs. Actually, 'early childhood pro Continue Reading...
Black-White Achievement Gap As recently as 1998, the press was reporting that African-Americans score lower than European-Americans on vocabulary, reading, and math skills tests in general, as well as on standardized tests claiming to measure schola Continue Reading...
Diagnosing the Problem As Palardy (2015) shows, first grade is where the achievement gap begins to develop among students. Ferrer et al. (2015) show that the achievement gap begins in first grade and persists well into adolescence: in order to addres Continue Reading...
Causes of Low Student Achievement Does the grading system accurately measure how well a student is learning? This question itself implies that the grading system used by many teachers cannot be fully accurate in assessing what a given student has l Continue Reading...
They will in turn pass on that legacy to their own children. Since that is the general rule and principle, why does it affect persons of color more fiercely? Persons of color are disproportionately represented in the low strata of the SE ladder. Am Continue Reading...
Congruence of Mother and Teacher Educational Expectations and Low-Income Youth's Academic Competence By: Aprile D. Benner and Rashmita S. Mistry The authors of this article want to examine the independent effects of teacher and mother expectation Continue Reading...
2010). What Needs to Be Done The research quite clearly suggests that something needs to be done about the gender gap in literacy rates and the lower comprehension and skill levels of male students. What is somewhat less clear is exactly what need Continue Reading...
Intervention Effectiveness Response to instruction and intervention RTI2 is reported as a general approach in education to closing the gap in achievement. RTI2 methods are constructed upon the Response to Intervention (RTI) model that was an option Continue Reading...
Klein and the Educational System in New York Case Questions: Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein Brings Accountability to NYC Klein was a prominent leader in the educational system of New York. He had made impressive developments throughout h Continue Reading...
Curriculum guides what is taught while differentiation guides how it is taught. Differentiation can be used to teach the same standard to a range of learners by using diverse teaching and learning modes. Curriculum doesn't have to be narrow to incre Continue Reading...
The achievement gap is a problem for many younger learners that appears to be impacted by racial and socio-economic factors (Harackiewicz, Canning, Tibbetts, Priniski & Hyde, 2016). However, social psychology interventions can be applied to help Continue Reading...
For Bush, the "formation and refining of policy proposals" (Kingdon's second process stream in policymaking) came to fruition when he got elected, and began talking to legislators about making educators and schools accountable. Bush gave a little, Continue Reading...
Peer Mentoring in a Low Income CommunityIntroductionAs a current intern at Cook Elementary in Auburn Gresham Illinois, I get to interact with you students who struggle with the basicsreading, writing and arithmetic. So far it has been a genuine pleas Continue Reading...
Abstract This literature review examines several scholarly articles that focus on the role of religion in the formation of student character. Some of the articles study the effect of religion and/or Christian beliefs on academic achievement, while so Continue Reading...
Special Education Diverse Learners Project Guidelines Section 1: Abstract This paper provides an overview of Butler College Prep, its demographics, and its programs and services for special needs students. It looks at curriculum and instruction effor Continue Reading...
Abstract This paper is a reflection on the aims of education, the image of the learner, the image of the teacher, the value of curriculum, and pedagogical ideas. The paper discusses how education is important not just for students but for the whole c Continue Reading...
Abstract This paper compares and contrasts the school funding approaches of the state of Illinois and the District of Columbia. It shows that in Illinois there is a far greater problem of how to achieve a more equitable distribution of funds, though Continue Reading...
No Child Left Behind Law On January 8, 2002 President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act of2001 (NCLB Act). This historic piece of education legislation reauthorized and considerably expanded the Elementary and Secondary Education Ac Continue Reading...
In addition to changes in admission policies at universities, new workshops in education are beginning to address this issue head on, with teaching participants being taught that American history and education are both "written from the perspective Continue Reading...
No Child Left Behind When it was first initiated, the No Child Left Behind Act was intended to make schools accountable for the education of their students. This federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act was supposed to improve the quality of e Continue Reading...
The belief that the achievement of students in the United States schools was falling behind other countries led politicians in the 1970s to instigate a minimum competency testing movement to reform our schools. States began to rely on tests of basi Continue Reading...
Impact on Equity One major point regarding equity as applied to performance-based assessment is made by Yale Professor Emeritus Edmund Gordon (Dietel, Herman and Knuth, 1991). "We begin with the conviction that it is desirable that attention be gi Continue Reading...
Round Schooling: Implications for the Current State of Public Education The media has recently reported an array of problems with the public education system including criticisms of teacher effectiveness, lack of funding, and continued decline in a Continue Reading...
Improving Diversity Introduction Recognizing diversity is one of the most important factors that managers and businesses have to face today (Wong & Chin, 2016). Diversity is a part of the human experience in the global environment that persists v Continue Reading...
What works for one child is not necessarily going to work for the next. So how can one promote the use of standardized tests as the only way to measure educational learning and success? The premise of the No Child Left Behind Act is very honorable. Continue Reading...
Public School Funding With reports on the lower standardized test scores among the nation's students, policy makers are once again turning their attention to the issue of education reform. For many educators, one of the culprits behind this is not o Continue Reading...
Reparations for Black Communities through Educational ReformIntroductionBackground. Just over four centuries ago, the first African slaves arrived in the United States, beginning what would become a rapidly growing and lucrative industry well into th Continue Reading...
The graph on figure 2 of Collier and Thomas' article (p. 8) also attests to the efficacy of two way immersion classes, perhaps even more so than the first graph. This is primarily due to the fact that there is a greater disparity in the average tes Continue Reading...
Unfortunately, in what concerns the educational system, black boys do not receive the support needed and they are constantly punished instead of being showed a better alternative of living and learning. Our educational system should focus on providi Continue Reading...
Vocabulary Acquisition by English as a Second Language Learners This chapter provides a review of the relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature concerning vocabulary acquisition and English language learners and a discussion concerning Web-bas Continue Reading...
Hernando County and NCLB: Mandate for Drastic Change The Hon. Ginny Brown-Waite North Main Street Sincerely, Hernando County's Current NCLB Situation The Hernando County Situation in a Larger Context National Commentary on NCLB 2004 Adequate Y Continue Reading...
