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Anne Pierre – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed by this study was the academic achievement gap of low-income students. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of educators of low-income students participating in the Florida School Choice program and the perceived challenges they face in bridging the academic achievement…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Low Income Students
Beatriz Campana – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Throughout the years, United States education reform has sought to target the most disadvantaged students. Nonetheless, during this same period, proficiency rate disparities seem to have emerged among student subgroups. This study was designed to find ways for school districts to begin closing the achievement gaps between student subgroups,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, English Language Learners, Standardized Tests
Richard L. Allington – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Richard Allington reviews the nature of the reading achievement gap between students from low-income and high-income families, concluding that the limited access to children's books experienced by children from low-income families lies at the base of the problem. The fact that children from low-income families lose reading achievement every summer…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Achievement Gap, Childrens Literature, Books
Deleesa Mechelle Butler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Black student population underperforms all other demographic groups in high school science achievement. The purpose of this quantitative correlational research was to examine various factors influencing the science proficiency of Black students in selected Florida high schools. Florida's PK--20 Education Information Portal provided the…
Descriptors: African American Students, Science Achievement, High School Students, Gender Differences
Harold W. Edwards II – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Since the implementation of the legislation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Title I there is one group to which the achievement gap has widened: the Black male. Not only are Black males are in the lowest percentage on every marker of educational success (Kirp, 2010). Black males lead the percentages for every negative educational…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academic Achievement, Males, Educational Legislation
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
Florida's developmental education reform has benefitted most students directly impacted by the reform and has helped to reduce existing achievement gaps by race/ethnicity, English Language Learner status, and academic preparation in short-term outcomes like college course-taking and credit accumulation. Even though the reform was not specifically…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
Jennifer George – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Researchers found dual language programs allow students to acquire a second language while building positive cross-cultural beliefs. However, there are inconsistencies between what research shows and teachers' perceptions of success. The problem was a gap in academic achievement between both English Language Learners (ELL) and non-ELL students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning
Bracewell, Kristopher Jaye – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The gap in achievement and discipline between White and Black students is a significant problem in education across the nation. The objective of this study was to determine if the achievement gap increases once schools decrease suspension rates and offer alternatives to out-of-school suspension. The purpose of this study was to determine the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Discipline, Disproportionate Representation, African American Students
Gay, Jan L.; Swank, Jacqueline M. – Professional School Counseling, 2021
The American School Counselor Association Closing-the-Gap Action Plan template is a tool created to help school counselors identify educational gaps and track interventions. We applied a transcendental, phenomenological qualitative research method to explore school counselors' use of the template to advocate for students. Our findings demonstrate…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Achievement Gap, Intervention, Equal Education
Rachel L. Schechter; Maddie Lee Mason; Laura Janakiefski – Online Submission, 2024
The ongoing literacy crisis in the U.S. highlights an urgent need for effective, scalable literacy instruction. REED Charitable Foundation (RCF) is a non-profit organization that provides structured literacy training informed by Orton-Gillingham, along with ongoing professional coaching and comprehensive implementation support to help all students…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains
Vanady A. Daniels – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In a large school district in Florida, many third-grade students have been retained over a 7-year period. Enrollment documents, such as summer school registration forms and seven annual summer reading camp evaluations in 2013-2019, indicated that 13,693 students attended the 4-week summer reading camp during this period. Summer reading camps are…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Reading Achievement, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Juan Carlos Sanchez Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Student behavior is one of the top concerns for classroom teachers (Freiberg & Reyes, 2008). Student discipline has been a historic problem for teachers and schools alike. Students who misbehave tend to obstruct learning outcomes for students and negatively impact the efficacy and well-being of teachers (Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk Hoy,…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Educational Objectives, Discipline Problems, Discipline Policy
Jocelynn Drew – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative descriptive study addressed the ongoing mathematical achievement gap among kids with disabilities by investigating the interventions and tactics employed by instructors while working with students with emotional-behavioral disorders. This study's conceptual framework was based on data from the National Center for Educational…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Gap, Intervention
Tikya Nattiel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The reading achievement gap between Black and White students was 29 points in Florida, depicting an alarming eight-point increase over that of the United States. Within School District A, the reading achievement gap was over 40% for over 4 years resulting in a district-wide plan for reconciliation and to determine the contributing factors of the…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Achievement Gap, African American Students, White Students
Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education: New Evidence on the Debate over Disproportionality
Elder, Todd E.; Figlio, David; Imberman, Scott; Persico, Claudia – Education Next, 2021
About 70 percent of all Black students attend schools where more than half of students are non-white. By contrast, just 13 percent of white students attend predominately nonwhite schools. Such disparate enrollments mirror longstanding differences across racial groups in educational and economic outcomes, including Black-white gaps in educational…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Disability Identification, Special Education, Racial Factors