Unstack the Odds: Zap the Achievement Gap

Unstack the Odds: Zap the Achievement Gap If all students are to access college and graduate, we must "unstack the odds" they face by eliminating opportunity gaps that lead to the achievement gap.

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08/19/2022

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The Youngstown City School District’s test scores are not improving, and a community group wants to know why. The Community Education Oversight Task Force is calling for action as the start of the school year nears. “Youngstown…

08/04/2022

The highest-scoring students have improved academically while those who score lowest have gone the other way. Here's why experts are concerned.

07/21/2022

In order to reduce achievement gaps between children of different backgrounds, five basic principles have been developed from scientific literature by the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University. The basic

06/30/2022

The opportunity gap persists, according to a new report from Sonoma County's Department of Human Services.

04/20/2022

A century of efforts to give children equal opportunity in school have failed to dent the role of family background, according to a U.K. study.

12/15/2021

Students in majority-Black schools are now a full 12 months behind those in mostly white schools, widening the achievement gap by a third, according to a new analysis by McKinsey & Co. Overall, students are four months behind in math and three in reading compared with years past, but those totals hi...

11/28/2021

In 2013, California’s system of financing public schools was overhauled in an effort to close the “achievement gap,” but we still don’t know whether it’s working.

11/24/2021

Soboba Indian Reservation, CA (KABC)-Anthony Contreras, Abine Valles, Iyana “Tot” Briones, Face Vega are teenagers with different goals after graduating from high school. 16-year-old Contreras wants to participate in Native American Studies. 17-year-old Neveres wants to get a degree, return to t...

07/28/2021

New research shows that all groups are behind in math and reading after disruptions during the pandemic. But it’s the most vulnerable students who experienced the steepest setbacks.

07/20/2021

Parenting deficiencies have long been blamed for the vocabulary gap between low-income children and their more affluent peers. But new research implicates the economic context in which parenting takes place -- in other words, the wealth gap.

06/27/2021

Gaps in learning for children living in poverty start long before they enter kindergarten. That's why we need to invest in early education.

06/23/2021

It lifts all boats, but not by equal amounts.

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