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Synthesizes the most current research to help school leaders understand the achievement gap and provides strategies to address the external society factors and internal school factors that contribute to this issue.
Bringing Achievement Gaps into Focus
Bringing Achievement Gaps into Focus
America is a diverse society in which educational differences have the potential to become a progressively larger source of inequality and social conflict. Many people now recognize that eliminating these differences has become a moral and pragmatic imperative. (Miller, 1995, pp. 1–2)
Beyond policy mandates, however, there is a moral mandate. A good education, one that overcomes the burdens on children of racial discrimination and poverty, is the hope of every parent in schools where too many children are failing. (Lewis, 2008, p. xi)
Setting the Stage
The term “achievement gap” is used to describe differences in learning among specified groups of students (Reynolds, 2002). More specifically, it refers to differences in academic achievement between socioeconomically advantaged and white ...
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