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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Opportunity gaps."”.
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Opportunity Gaps and Remediation: Can Academic Intensity in High School Level the Playing Field?
… findings: race- and class-based remediation gaps cease to measure as significant when skills-based and dispositional student characteristics are factored into the model; after factoring in dispositional measures of academic intensity, only eighth-grade standardized math test scores and the …
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Support Through Strengthening Relational Ties : An Examination On The Impact Of Community-Based Partnerships In Closing Opportunity Gaps For Students
<p>Oftentimes I have witnessed a disconnect between addressing student need and the services a community partnership provides. I conducted a qualitative study to examine the impact a faith-based community partnership had on its participating students. I interviewed directors, staff, and parents, as …
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Identity and Place: Exploring the Complexities Between Rural Education, Community, and Queerness
… monoliths and deficits while working to address opportunity gaps for rural youth and educators. Theories throughout this work include critical pedagogies of place (Bass and Azano, 2024; Greenwood, 2003), critical theories disrupting power (Freire, 1970), a pedagogy of love (Darder, 2017), and …
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Learning in Place: Teachers' Experiences with a Place-based Language Arts Curriculum in Rural Appalachia
… gifted services highlight a need to mitigate opportunity gaps for rural gifted students (Azano et al., 2017). Using Greenwood's (2003, 2008) critical pedagogy of place as the theoretical framework, this qualitative case study examined how 16 teachers in a high-poverty rural district consisting …
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Urban District Reform for Equity: The Case of the Model Schools for Inner Cities Program in the Toronto District School Board
… resulting in persistent achievement and opportunity gaps. This study explores urban district reform for equity through the lens of critical pedagogy, by exploring the case of the Model Schools for Inner Cities (MSIC) Program in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) from 2004-2014. TDSB …
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Impact of Student Voice in the (Dis) Engagement of Middle School Students in Urban Elementary School and Academic Achievement
… educational justice and closing achievement and opportunity gaps.</p>
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An Analysis of Paid Agent Contracts Utilized in the Recruitment of International Students at University System of Georgia Institutions
… options. Paid agents bridge the information and opportunity gaps between institutions and prospective international students. However, the use of paid agents is fraught with many dangers. Paid agent contracts govern the relationships between these entities in the absence of regulations. This …
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Culturally responsive school leadership: Examining White male principals’ practices
… responsive school leadership to close the opportunity gaps Black students and economically disadvantaged students experience. Critical race theory, the key model, and culturally responsive school leadership theory form the conceptual framework for this phenomenological study. The …
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A Case Study of a Math Teacher of Black Students: Examining Instruction that Addresses the Content Knowledge Gap Through Culturally Relevant Instruction
… pedagogy and practices to address and eliminate opportunity gaps in the educational system at the school district and state levels. The results from this case study demonstrate that it is possible to work effectively with African American students and for them to be confident and successful …
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One school's process of becoming more culturally responsive: an ethnographic case study
… white. Moreover, racial and cultural opportunity gaps continue to widen. In this ethnographic case study, the researcher studies one school’s process for becoming a more culturally responsive community. Through semi-structured interviews, field notes, and surveys, the researcher …
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Preparing School Leaders to Meet the Needs of Students in Poverty
Opportunity gaps for certain student groups are well documented across the United States as well as in the Mid-Atlantic state where this research occurred. According to Miksic (2014), “American public education aspires to provide rich and poor, Black and White, immigrant and native-born, with equal …
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Entrepreneurship as a viable career choice for Nigerian youth.
… conceptual model for the entrepreneurial career, opportunity identification and development process. This inductive study based upon narratives generates affective, behavioural, cognitive and discursive understanding to assert that entrepreneurship is an experience, an employment choice and a …
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Life is Complicated: The Urgent Call to Support Student Wellbeing through Social Emotional Learning
… racial trauma, and suicide risk, in addition to opportunity gaps. Despite educators’ work to support students through mental health services and despite the existence of social emotional learning (SEL) programs within the school environment, the impact on student learning and long-term post high …
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Resiliency: Factors Effecting Academic Achievement of At Risk Fifth Grade Girls Living In Poverty
… successful girls and perhaps apply it in closing opportunity gaps. In addition, after girls are encouraged to enable their voice, educators need to assist and support girls as they determine what changes they can implement to increase their self-efficacy.
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Ensemble cast: filling pedagogical gaps in theatre education with school and community partnerships
… core subjects (Chapman, 2005; McMurrer, 2007). Opportunity gaps for arts education disproportionately impact students of color and students living in poverty, rendering it a civil rights issue (Rabkin & Hedberg, 2011). To fill pedagogical gaps, arts education should not be outsourced to …
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(En)Countering White Noise: A Narrative Study Of How Students Of Color Experience And Navigate Rural, Predominantly White High Schools
… contexts in the United States. Meanwhile, racial opportunity gaps emerge in the schoolhouse and endure over the course of the lifespan because educational attainment is a catalyst for economic mobility and other positive life outcomes. The problem addressed in this study was the dearth of research …
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Urban Teachers Program: Culturally Responsive Middle School Teachers Describe Their Competencies
… teaching practices in an effort to combat the opportunity gaps in education and increase students’ achievement rate. This study focused on documenting responses to the questions: How do Urban Teachers enact culturally responsive teaching practices in their classrooms? How do teachers in the …
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AN OBSERVATION OF THE EQUITY FRAMEWORK IN A LARGE URBAN DISTRICT AND ITS IMPACT ON SCHOOL DISCIPLINARY PRACTICE
… rates and how such practices contribute to opportunity gaps for Black students. After the launch of the district’s Equity Framework, evidence of inequitable discipline practices still exists, as the out-of-school suspension data show the rate for African American students is nearly three …
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An exploration of the experiences of black high school students in the mathematics classroom: A qualitative study
… gap to one that Milner (2012) refers to as the opportunity gap.</p> <p>Using the stories of Black high school students’ experiences in the mathematics classroom, this dissertation displays the various opportunity gaps that Black students experience within the classroom. This study utilizes …
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Latinx fifth-grade student perceptions of their experiences in a leadership skills and social-emotional learning program : a phenomenological study.
Current scholarship demonstrates that there is an opportunity and achievement gap that exists between Latinx fifth graders and other ethnic demographics (NAEP, 2020). This performance gap of Hispanic students continues to be a growing national concern. The performance gap is of particular interest …
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