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Download full textKeith, Christina S. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2018
While it is important to recognize the economic background of students and home factors contributing to their achievement, the purpose of this study was to discover what best practices schools were implementing with low socioeconomic students to narrow the achievement gap in communication arts (Darling-Hammond & Richardson, 2009; Gorski, 2013;…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Achievement Gap, Best Practices, Low Income Students
Direct linkMiller, Catherine M.; Martin, Barbara N. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
This multi-case study sought to construct meaning using a cultural capital lens in relation to educational leadership preparation programs building the capacities of social justice leaders in demographically changing schools. Data revealed principals' perceptions about preparation, expectations and general beliefs and assumptions related to…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Demography, Social Justice
Lapan, Richard T.; Gysbers, Norman C.; Stanley, Bragg; Pierce, Margaret E. – Professional School Counseling, 2012
Results link lower student-to-school-counselor ratios to better graduation rates and lower disciplinary incidents across Missouri high schools. An interaction favorable for promoting student success in school was found between increasing percentages of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch and smaller student-to-school-counselor ratios.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, School Counselors, Poverty
Kahlenberg, Richard D. – American Educator, 2013
Integrating our schools is a goal that many of us share. But some seem to have given up on the idea, as plans to boost racial diversity have come under attack, and as the fixation on test scores has narrowed some people's concept of a good education. There is, however, new hope: integration by socioeconomic status. It's a cost-effective, legally…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Socioeconomic Status, Social Integration, Achievement Gap
Ijei, Charlotte; Harrison, Julie – Journal of Staff Development, 2010
A key component to eliminating the achievement gap is building relationships between educators and students of color. In working toward social justice in schools, the authors encounter people at different places on the continuum. Educators in the large, primarily white, suburban Parkway School District in St. Louis, Missouri, range from the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, African American Students, School Districts, Academic Achievement
Baker, Bruce D.; Green, Preston C., III – Journal of Education Finance, 2009
The goal of this study is to apply a conventional education cost-function approach for estimating the sensitivity of cost models and predicted education costs to the inclusion of school district level racial composition variables and further to test whether race neutral alternatives sufficiently capture the additional costs associated with school…
Descriptors: African American Students, State Aid, Outcomes of Education, Racial Composition
