757 Search Results for Reading and the Achievement Gap
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...
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...
four-day school week means that kids have a longer school day during the days in which they are in the classroom. I feel that the school day is already too long as it is. I would like to see the number of hours in which kids are in school mandatoril 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...
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...
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...
Gap: Early Childhood Intervention and the Development of the Disabled Child
Children with special needs include those who have disabilities, developmental delays, are gifted/talented, and are at risk of future developmental problems. Early interven Continue Reading...
There is also the question of what approach should be used in a given setting. For instance, Lewis-Moreno points out that, "A great deal of energy is expended selecting and defending the model used: Should it be late- or early-exit bilingual, dual l Continue Reading...
The Title I reading instructor will become familiar with the Plato Learning content library.
The Title 1 reading instructor will begin supplementing classroom instruction with the mini classroom lab using software from Plato Learning.
Title I rea Continue Reading...
In grade four white males performing "At or Above Basic" math skills is stated at 90% while black males were performing at only 59% "At or Above Basic" skill levels. White males in the "At or Above Proficient" skills level is stated at 49% with blac Continue Reading...
Possible Explanations in Structural Issues within the Educational Experience
The similarity in aptitude early on and the increasing academic achievement gap between black and white students thereafter would seem to suggest that the causes are most Continue Reading...
Parenting on the Academic Achievement of Children
Single parenting effects
The term family refers to a group of at least two people who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption and who share resources, responsibility for decisions, values and g Continue Reading...
Education
Class Size vs. School Vouchers on the Achievement of Minority Students
The continuous achievement gap between African-American students and their white peers is a major problem in American education. The gap in fourth-grade reading on the Continue Reading...
Economic Issues of Student Achievement in a Non-Profit School Environment
The objective of this work in writing is to examine the economic issues of student achievement in a non-profit school environment. Toward this end, this work will examine lite Continue Reading...
We know this situation is particularly critical for special education, ESL, and bilingual teachers. Although these teachers require an even deeper understanding of reading, language, curricula, and instructional practices than do mainstream teachers Continue Reading...
81). Ambrose and Corn (1997) further define "functional vision" as vision that can be used to derive input for planning and performing tasks; the extent to which one uses his or her available vision is referred to as "visual efficiency."
Reading Sk Continue Reading...
(Reading for the 21st Century: Adolescent Literacy Teaching and Learning Strategies," 2004)
2. Alphabetic Principle-related Skills: This includes: "phonemic awareness, the ability to manipulate the sounds of oral language and phonics and the relati Continue Reading...
By working toward and arriving at a workable and agreeable solution, Tombaugh's principal and teachers together demonstrated the power and effectiveness of collective leadership.
Cushman (March 1997) further points out that in today's changing and 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...
gap, problem, purpose, RQ's, method, design, and analysis?
According to Hickman (et al.) in the 2008 article "The differential developmental pathways of high school dropouts and graduates" from the Journal of Educational Research, the concern about Continue Reading...
Edmark and Reading Matery
One of the greatest challenges for any educator is dealing with a student with reading difficulties. However, a number of different programs exist to deal with the different forms of comprehension difficulties such challeng Continue Reading...
Reading is a fundamental part of a child's education. Many techniques have been utilized in an effort to make learning to read and reading comprehension easier for students (McCray 2001). One such technique is Sustained Silent Reading (SSR). The purp Continue Reading...
digital age is coming and soon everyone will have affordable access to the internet. At least that is the hopeful message of some. In reality, the digital age is still not accessible to many and may not be for years to come. This could be due to sev Continue Reading...
Metacognition and Academic Achievement in College Students
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN METACOGNITION AND ACADEMI
Constituent Elements of Metacognition
Metacognitive Awareness Inventory
Gender differences in metacognitive skills
Relationship to Oth Continue Reading...
Increased vocabulary levels leads to increases in reading comprehension. Students with higher levels of vocabulary can also express themselves in more unique and complex formats, essentially increasing their ability to comment on the reading materia Continue Reading...
This is particularly true for students with learning disabilities. Secondary students' reading performance reaches a plateau during their high school years, and it is clear that the performance gap between their abilities and what they are expected Continue Reading...
Differential achievements education Britain - Sociology 1.Class - Trends achievement (Statistics). 2/3 factors affecting achievement - e.g. social class, neo-liberalism 2. Gender -Trends achievement (Statistics) .
Class trends in achievement: Prejud Continue Reading...
Taking these two pieces of data into consideration, we may conclude that poverty amongst immigrants is rising and having a correspondent challenging impact on their children. These children who, frequently, know little English then bring their prob Continue Reading...
HSMS Gap Analysis and Hazard Identification Risk Assessments
Description of APM Terminals
Legal Environment
Review of the Health and Safety Management System
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Hazard Identification
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Students then move to advisory to discuss what they learned from the principal, then begins first period science class.
Science is tutorial based, but often broken up into groups of four for lab and experimentation work. Math lab includes a number Continue Reading...
What can be done about this, Newkirk wonders in this article, published in 2004. Boys see libraries as a place for girls to go; boys go home and their dads are reading the sports page in newspapers while mom may be reading a novel. And boys are not Continue Reading...
What types of equipment, support, training, and resources are currently available to teachers of special-needs students at the site school to assist them in effectively using technology to help their students increase their academic skills; especial Continue Reading...
Teaching Reading in the Content Areas
Reading of content area is observed to provide some gratifying instances and also capable of creating critical circumstances. Due emphasis is being laid on reading in the sphere of evaluation of the developed co Continue Reading...
Integration of music and reading may help parents prepare their children for school. On the surface, music and literacy seem opposite of each other both in meaning and delivery. However, the two forms of learning go hand in hand. For example, lyrics Continue Reading...
Race, Ethnicity, and Academic Achievement - Proposal of Research Design
This research will study the relationship between race and ethnicity and academic achievement.
This study will look at whether students from five racial classifications - White Continue Reading...
Students level of skills
How students are relating to vocabulary usage
Time segments in minutes
Notes need help (more than 20% are unable to process)
Students are spending more time working independently. Fewer students need assistance from teac Continue Reading...
197). There have also been a number of software applications developed specifically for use in the classroom that can provide at-risk students with the opportunity to catch up with their peers, but here again it is important to recognize that at-ris Continue Reading...