Achievement Gap
Provide 3 reasons why Ladson-Billings defines the "achievement gap" as the "educational debt."
Ladson and Billings are defining achievement gaps as educational debt based upon three primary factors. The most notable include: historical, economic and social - political factors. These different areas transform how someone looks at achievement and their role in reaching different objectives. (Ladson -- Billings, 2006)
Historical components are focusing on how inequalities existed in many areas of society. This made it difficult for them to be able to make these adjustments based upon certain advantages being provided to specific segments of society. Throughout the course of American history, these practices made it harder for minorities to receive the support they needed. Instead, they were forced to receive access to second class educational services. These differences in the quality of materials and services, resulted in the majority (i.e. whites) receiving the best education possible. While certain segments of…...
mlaReferences
Ladson -- Billings, G. (2006). From the Achievement Gap to Educational Debt. Educational Researcher, 35 (7), 3 -- 12.
Love, B. (2004). Brown Plus 50 Counter Story Telling. Equality and Excellence in Education, 37, 227 -- 246.
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 contributes to students who more likely grow up to be unemployed, incarcerated, and poor. Consequently, a quality education proves critical for Black children (Elder, ¶ 3).
Causes Contributing to Achievement Gap
Causes contributing to the achievement gap between Blacks and Whites include educational targets increasingly annually, shifting demographics in the U.S., and the forthcoming addition of science targets. These and other factors such as teacher expectations, stereotyping, allocation of resources, high-quality teachers, and environment contribute to potential risks for increases in the achievement gap (What is the…, 2009, ¶ 2).
Gloria Ladson-Billings (2007), PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, reports that some perceive the achievement gap as merely one of student achievement; that the student does not…...
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Beglau, M.M. (2005). Can technology narrow the black-white achievement gap? The eMINTS
Instructional Model of Inquiry-Based Teaching, combined with multimedia tools in the classroom improves test scores for all students THE Journal (Technological Horizons
In Education), 32(12), 13+. Retrieved July 5, 2009, from Questia database:
Achievement Gap Among Wealthy and Lower Socioeconomic Communities
There exists an achievement gap among wealthy and lower socio economic communities. Students who come from schools within lower socioeconomic communities do not often receive the same education or services from wealthier districts. New Jersey has responded to this inequitable situation with the Abbot funding process. ecently two local communities, Long Branch and Neptune, have been threatened with the loss of their Abbott status; as a result of additional mandates from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, many such schools are being threatened with the loss of their funding if they fail to meet minimum academic achievement standards. To determine the impact of this potential loss, this paper will provide insights into local concerns in Long Branch to identify how this loss would affect the academic achievement gap. This discussion will be followed by a report on two areas where it is…...
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Lattimer, P.E. & Strickland, D.S. (2004). Improving the quality of literacy education in New
Jersey's middle grades. Report of the NJ Task Force on Middle Grade Literacy
Education. [Online]. Available: http://www.state.nj.us/njded/genfo/midliteracy.pdf .
Quinn, R. (2003, January). Regionalization proposed as key to better integration. Asbury Park
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 only close the gap if we correctly identify it. Information about educational outcomes will need to be compared with income, race and gender data. The next phase of the action plan will be to identify key interventions, using the best practices identified in the literature. The third phase of the action plan will be to identify and engage with the relevant stakeholders, as defined by those action plans.StrategiesThere will first need to be adequate resources to execute the action plan. This will involve re-allocating parts of the budget at both the school board level and the individual school level for the programs recommended. If there is…...
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Amabile, T. & Kramer, S. (2011). The power of small wins. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved February 26, 2018 from https://hbr.org/2011/05/the-power-of-small-wins
Thibodeaux, W. (2018) The relationship between strategic and financial planning. Houston Chronicle. Retrieved February 26, 2018 from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/relationship-between-strategic-financial-planning-21063.html
Educational Legislation
EDUCATION
Education plays a key role in molding and to guide pupils, from the tender age to old age, and offers them with rightful skills to face the challenges of the modern society. However, educational gaps render learning difficult for some people to achieve their dreams of getting education to a higher level. American government, in turn, has set up Legislations to govern such people and to ensure proper, accessible and equal opportunity to all without discrimination whatsoever. Achievement gap shows the differences that exist between the academic performances of two or more groups, due to factors such as different socioeconomic class, race, sex.
Poverty is a socioeconomic gap that clearly brings out the disparities between the rich and the poor. From research, people believed that the poor children did not take education seriously unless pushed. On the other hand, the rich attended classes and seminars, if need be, for they…...
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. On the other hand, research done by experts show something different. esearch has been taking a look at schools that have been on the AYP list and achieving results that are outstanding under conditions that are extremely hard. Furthermore, students in today's schools are more scholastically different. There are more students put in special education classes, more students where their first language is not English, and more students having a hard time learning to read. There is a prerequisite to guarantee challenge for learners considered advanced when pressures of accountability put the emphasis on basic competences, and a growing financial gap that exists among segments of the student population. In certainty,…...
mlaReferences
Beecher, M. & . (2009). Closing the achievement gap with curriculum enrichment and differentiation: One school's story. Journal of Advanced Academics, 19(3), 502-530,551,554.
Pham, H.L. (2012). Differentiated Instruction And The Need To Integrate Teaching And Practice. Journal Of College Teaching & Learning, . Journal Of College Teaching & Learning, 9(1), 13-20.
Robinson, J.P. (2011). Evidence of a differential effect of ability grouping on the reading achievement growth of language-minority Hispanics. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 19(8), 141-180.
Santamaria, L.J. (2009). Culturally responsive differentiated instruction: Narrowing gaps between best pedagogical practices benefiting all learners. Teachers College Record, 111(1), 214-247.
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 programs have been a part of the nation's social policy landscape for decades' (Shonkoff, 1). The main objective of such programs is to close the achievement gap between low-income students and their more privileged counterparts. Said differently, 'childhood intervention programs' seek 'to diminish the social economic status disparities in the preschool years so that poor children enter school on a more equal footing to their more affluent peers' (Brooks-Gunn, Currie, & Besharov, 3).
Early childhood programs enroll students who are between three and four years of age. These programs are sponsored by diverse organizations and institutions; oftentimes their services overlap. The most well-known is Head Start, conceived in 1965 and funded by the federal government.…...
mlaReferences
American Federation of Teachers (2002). Early Childhood Education: Building A Strong
Foundation for the Future. Educational Issues Policy Brief: Washington, DC.
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Currie, Janet, & Besharov, Douglas J. (2000). Early Childhood
Intervention Programs: What Are the Costs and Benefits? Congressional Research
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 taking culture into consideration, a teacher can better connect with students and provide an atmosphere in the classroom that is conducive to sharing, responding and learning (Saifer, 2011). Educational attainment requires that students engage with the information that is presented to them in their lessons, and one of the best ways to get students to want to engage is to connect the lesson to their own backgrounds and cultural experience (Kea, Campbell-Whatley, Richards, 2006).
The role of cultural responsive teaching in educational attainment is to be the pathway towards cultural diversity. The teacher helps students to define the learning goals, question traditional concepts, understand student diversity, engage with the material and effectively work towards knowledge acquisition…...
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Kea, C., Campbell-Whately, G., Richards, H. (2006). Becoming culturally responsive educators: Rethinking teacher education pedagogy. Retrieved from Perna, L. W., & Finney, J. E. (2014). The Attainment Agenda : State Policy Leadership in Higher Education. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University PressSaifer, S. (2011). Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching : Classroom to Community and Back. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Corwin.Stetson, R., Stetson, E., Sinclair, B., & Nix, K. (2012). Home visits: Teacher reflections about relationships, student behavior, and achievement. Issues in Teacher Education, 21(1), 21.Thompson, R.B., Corsello, M., McReynolds, S. & Conklin-Powers, B. (2013). A longitudinal study of family socioeconomic status (SES) variables as predictors of socio-emotional resilience among mentored youth. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 21(4), 378-391.https://glec.education.iupui.edu/equity/Becoming_Culturally_Responsive_Educators.pdf
Students, Prejudice and isk
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 authority speak for the whole and express basically biased views. In this way students can become prejudiced against certain groups; or news reports in the media, for example, of the way that police officers are portrayed, can lead to prejudice in students. Peers and family members can also pass on prejudice to students, so it is something that can be handed down by background and culture, too (Koonce, 2016).
Approaches that might help develop appropriate tolerance and acceptance in students could be for schools to adopt a Zero Tolerance policy, in which no form of prejudice or bias is accepted and if it is displayed by students they are immediately disciplined without any second…...
mlaReferences
Barton, P., & Coley, R. (July, 2010). The Black-White Achievement Gap. ETS Policy
Information Report, 2-40.
Koonce, G. (Ed.), (2016) Taking sides: Clashing views on educational issues expanded
(18 Ed.). Mcgraw Hill Publishers.
Students, Prejudice and isk
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 authority speak for the whole and express basically biased views. In this way students can become prejudiced against certain groups; or news reports in the media, for example, of the way that police officers are portrayed, can lead to prejudice in students. Peers and family members can also pass on prejudice to students, so it is something that can be handed down by background and culture, too (Koonce, 2016).
Approaches that might help develop appropriate tolerance and acceptance in students could be for schools to adopt a Zero Tolerance policy, in which no form of prejudice or bias is accepted and if it is displayed by students they are immediately disciplined without any second…...
mlaReferences
Barton, P., & Coley, R. (July, 2010). The Black-White Achievement Gap. ETS Policy
Information Report, 2-40.
Koonce, G. (Ed.), (2016) Taking sides: Clashing views on educational issues expanded
(18 Ed.). Mcgraw Hill Publishers.
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 mandatorily reduced by half. Kids who want to stay after and partake of additional schooling may do so, with teachers being paid to accommodate this desire. It would take initiative on the part of the student (or it may solve the problem of adults needing daycare or supervision for children) -- but it would allow students who are advanced to get more of a real-world education outside the classroom for the rest of the time.
There are thus many problems with changing the way school is today -- whether reducing a day and adding time on the front end, or reducing…...
mlaReferences
Barton, P., & Coley, R. (July, 2010). The Black-White Achievement Gap. ETS Policy
Information Report, 2-40.
Graham, E., Walker, T. (2013). What 'flipped' classrooms can (and can't) do for education. NEAToday. Retrieved from http://neatoday.org/2013/03/29/what-flipped-classrooms-can-and-cant-do-for-education/
Kim, C. (2008). Academic success begins at home: How children can succeed in school. Heritage. Retrieved from http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/09/academic-success-begins-at-home-how-children-can-succeed-in-school
Bilingualism
As Pettito and Kovelman (2003) point out, conditions for becoming bilingual are youth, consistent exposure to both languages, and practice in a range of contexts. The ELL teacher cannot do much about the first condition -- but consistent exposure to the L2 and providing a range of contexts are two things the ELL teacher can do. Each of these practices can be achieved in the following five ways: 1) reading in a variety of formats, 2) speaking with a variety of individuals (making the ELL speak with peers, adults, strangers, etc.), 3) learning grammar and practicing grammar skills (diagramming exercises on the board are a good way to make this happen, 4) taking field trips so that the ELLs are exposed to new surroundings and giving them questionnaires that they must fill out by asking people questions on the field trip,…...
mlaReferences
Pettito, L. A., & Kovelman, I. (2003). The Bilingual Paradox: How signing-speaking bilingual children help us to resolve bilingual issues and teach us about the brain's mechanisms underlying all language acquisition. Learning Languages, 8(3), 5-18.
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 the gaps are often along income, racial and other pronounced socioeconomic lines. As with any other problem, there are possible interventions that can be used to curtail and prevent this problem from getting larger and harder to manage. The interventions that were sought and found for this literature review were found in academic databases such as EBSCO. As one might expect, “achievement gap” and other similar search strings were the parameters used to find the results. Generally speaking, the use of targeted interventions that address the root of the problem at the cultural and economic levels are what it takes to stem the problems in question. While there are no…...
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 address the achievement gap, the best step is to take preventive measures. This action research study plans to address the problem of the achievement gap by getting first graders to focus on reading and get them interested in reading by following the recommendation of Moses and Kelly (2018), which is to condition young learners to love reading by continuously promoting it in a favorable and positive light. In other words, by socializing reading and using child-centered teaching methods (Kikas, Pakarinen, Soodla, Peets & Lerkkanen, 2017; Moses & Kelly, 2018), first grade teachers can help to close the achievement gap.
The study setting is my first grade classroom. This setting was chosen because…...
othwell stresses both internal and external information with regard to supply and demand of labor skill sets, making clear that the development of internal skills is more available to the H and line manager than external supply information. (p. 168) it is for this reason that internal information of labor supply, including all demographic and skill set information on each employee be an important and centralized system that is streamlined to some degree. This may be done by direct review of employee performance, i.e. By the line manager as well as by employee communication of skill set through reviews and written statements upon hire and later to ensure that such information is up-to-date and planning for future improvement is developed, including desire by employee to improve skill set and achieve educational goals, as well as streamlining of such information through planning and communication on the part of H and line…...
mlaResources
Rothwell, S. (1995) "Human Resource Planning" in Human Resource Management: A Critical Text. London, UK: Routledge.
Certainly! Here are some potential essay topics related to social problems and programs addressing those issues:
1. The impact of homelessness on individuals and communities, and the effectiveness of government-funded programs such as Housing First in addressing this issue.
2. The challenges faced by individuals struggling with addiction, and the benefits of programs like Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous in providing support and recovery resources.
3. The prevalence of food insecurity in low-income communities, and the role of government assistance programs like SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) in ensuring access to adequate nutrition.
4. The mental health stigma in society, and the importance of....
1. The effectiveness of intervention phonics programs in improving word recognition and spelling skills in struggling readers
2. The role of explicit phonics instruction in promoting efficient word decoding and spelling abilities
3. The impact of phonics-based interventions on reading fluency and comprehension
4. Comparing and contrasting different phonics intervention strategies for improving word recognition and spelling
5. The relationship between phonological awareness, phonics instruction, and spelling proficiency in young readers
6. Integrating technology into phonics interventions to enhance word recognition and spelling outcomes
7. Addressing the needs of English language learners through phonics-based interventions for word recognition and spelling
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Impact of School Uniforms on Student Performance and Behavior
The debate on the efficacy of school uniforms has been ongoing for decades, with proponents and opponents citing various arguments. Recent research findings have shed light on the impact of school uniforms on student performance and behavior, providing valuable insights into this polarizing issue.
Improved Academic Performance
Numerous studies have suggested that school uniforms may positively influence student academic achievement. For instance, a study by Cotton (2018) found that students in schools with mandatory school uniforms scored significantly higher on standardized tests than those in schools without uniforms. The study attributed this improvement to....
1. The Impact of Multi-Syllable Interventions on Reading Comprehension in Elementary School Students
2. Exploring the Effectiveness of Multi-Syllable Intervention Strategies for Students with Dyslexia
3. The Importance of Early Intervention for Developing Multi-Syllable Decoding Skills in Young Learners
4. Implementing Multi-Syllable Intervention Programs in ESL Classrooms: Challenges and Strategies
5. A Critical Analysis of Different Approaches to Multi-Syllable Intervention in Special Education Settings
6. Examining the Role of Teacher Training in the Success of Multi-Syllable Intervention Programs
7. The Relationship Between Phonological Awareness and Multi-Syllable Intervention Success
8. Using Technology to Enhance Multi-Syllable Intervention in the Classroom
9. Developing a Comprehensive Multi-Syllable Intervention Plan for Struggling Readers
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