Closing the Opportunity Gap for Low-Income Urban Minority Students in Turnaround Schools
As we prepare to address and stem many of the systemic racist policies that plague our low-income minority students, we have to remain diligent and innovative in our attempt to provide our low-income minority students, as early as pre-kindergarten, access to opportunities that will ultimately prepare them for post-secondary success. This study focuses on how accountability policies and expectations for turnaround schools have had a long-term impact on the type of opportunities students who attend these schools will ultimately have. This study also proposes two policies that work to not only increase opportunities for low-income urban minority students who attend these turnaround schools, but also work tirelessly and strategically to prepare students to take full advantage of these opportunities.
Opportunity Gap, Low-Income, Minority, Turnaround Schools, Adult and Continuing Education, Educational Administration and Supervision, Educational Leadership, Urban Education
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations