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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.
Schooling Causes of the Achievement Gap: School Culture, Structure, and Support
Schooling Causes of the Achievement Gap: School Culture, Structure, and Support
Understanding achievement by blacks may have much to do with the schools black students attend. (Chubb & Loveless, 2002, p. 4)
Differences across schools play some part in driving racial disparities. (Stiefel, Schwartz, & Ellen, 2006, p. 11)
The institutional deficiency theory claims that Black children perform less well academically than White children because the institution of school is organized to favor middle class and upper class, non-minority children. (Stinson, 2006, p. 484)
The education of white children is relatively more successful than that of Black children because the schools were designed for white children. (Hale-Benson, 1990, p. 201)
In this chapter, we continue our analysis of the ...
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