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Gershenson, Seth; Hansen, Michael; Lindsay, Constance A. – Harvard Education Press, 2021
"Teacher Diversity and Student Success" makes a powerful case for diversifying the teaching force as an important policy lever for closing achievement gaps and moving schools closer to equity goals. Written by three leading scholars, the book provides nuanced solutions on how to diversify the teaching force, increase student exposures to…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Success, Achievement Gap, Equal Education
Tennessee Board of Regents - The College System of Tennessee, 2021
Tennessee's community colleges are committed to reducing equity gaps. According to the Tennessee Board of Regents' (TBR) equity policy, this commitment means "ensuring that each student has access to a high-quality education and that each student receives what they need to be successful through the intentional design of the college…
Descriptors: Prerequisites, Required Courses, Academic Support Services, Community Colleges
Julie Minahan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This research addressed the problem of achievement gaps among elementary schools in Massachusetts. The purpose of this quantitative causal comparative study was to determine what effect, if any, funding had on elementary school accountability classification, student academic achievement, and per pupil expenditure rates. Equity theory indicated…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Underachievement, Financial Support, Achievement Gap
Mary Goshay – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of African American high school students in southeast Colorado who are scoring low on geometry assessments. There are many studies on African American students scoring low on math assessments. However, there are no studies presented in literature on the topic coming…
Descriptors: African American Students, High School Students, Mathematics Achievement, Scores
Rajeev Darolia; Andrew Sullivan – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
There is no national consensus on how school districts calculate high school achievement disparities between students who experience homelessness and those who do not. Using administrative student-level data from a mid-sized public school district in the Southern United States, we show that commonly used ways of defining which students are…
Descriptors: High School Students, Homeless People, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
Allison Atteberry; Andrew McEachin – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
Summer learning loss (SLL) is a familiar and much-studied phenomenon, yet new concerns that measurement artifacts may have distorted canonical SLL findings create a need to revisit basic research on SLL. Though race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status only account for about 4% of the variance in SLL, nearly all prior work focuses on these factors.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Language Arts, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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Gorard, Stephen – British Educational Research Journal, 2022
The use of targeted additional funding for school-age education, intended to improve student attainment, is a widespread phenomenon internationally. It is slightly rarer that the funding is used to improve attainment specifically for the most disadvantaged students -- often via trying to attract teachers to poorer areas, or encouraging families to…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Disadvantaged
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Barnes, Zachary T.; Boedeker, Peter; Cartwright, Kelly B.; Zhang, Bingshi – Journal of Research in Reading, 2022
Studies have demonstrated significant associations between executive function (EF) and reading ability. Many of these studies have evaluated this association through composite EF skills. In this study, we evaluated the indirect effects of working memory (WM) and cognitive flexibility (CF) in the relation between kindergarten socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Executive Function, Reading Skills, Short Term Memory
Lafortune, Julien – Public Policy Institute of California, 2022
This document contains the technical appendix for the report, "Understanding the Effects of School Funding." Contents include supplementary tables and figures. [Research support for this report was provided by Joseph Herrera. For the full report, see ED623529. For the Policy Brief, see ED623531.]
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Expenditure per Student, Outcomes of Education
Johnson, Angela; Kuhfeld, Megan; Soland, James – NWEA, 2022
About one in five students in the US attends a rural school, and over half of all school districts are in rural areas. And yet very little is known about achievement, achievement gaps, and academic growth in rural schools, including how school-year and summer changes in achievement may differ in these schools. This lack of information is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
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Gonzalez, Lara – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2022
This study explored the role of school superintendents and board of education trustees in closing the achievement gap, which can be defined as "the disparity in academic performance between groups of students" (Muhammad, 2015, p. 14). District leaders (superintendents and school boards) set the priorities and policies in their school…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Boards of Education, Trustees, Cooperation
Tyson, Brian – ProQuest LLC, 2022
What if a district utilized its teacher onboarding program to prioritize the development of a culturally responsive lens to meet the needs of its diverse student population? Public school districts in the United States have long served as a platform that reproduces oppression and marginalization of people of color. These issues are observable by…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Equal Education
Koenig, Kelsey – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative study examined the achievement gap in mathematics through the analysis of standardized test scores from a suburban school district in Saint Louis County. The problem this study addressed is that students of color in Missouri continue to score well below their peers on mathematics assessments (Bohrnstedt et al., 2015; Kotok, 2017;…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Students, Standardized Tests
Louisiana Board of Regents, 2022
In 2019, the Louisiana Board of Regents issued its Master Plan for Higher Education establishing an audacious goal for the state--60% of working adults holding a degree or credential of value by the year 2030. At that time, Regents committed itself to "lead the way in developing and implementing key initiatives to eliminate performance gaps,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Master Plans, Educational Objectives, Adults
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
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