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African Americans And Boys: Understanding The Literacy Gap, Tracing Academic Trajectories, And Evaluating The Role Of Learning-Related Skills, Jamaal Matthews, Karmen T. Kizzie, Stephanie J. Rowley, Kai Cortina
African Americans And Boys: Understanding The Literacy Gap, Tracing Academic Trajectories, And Evaluating The Role Of Learning-Related Skills, Jamaal Matthews, Karmen T. Kizzie, Stephanie J. Rowley, Kai Cortina
Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works
In this study, the authors examined the racial and gender gap in the academic development of African American and White children from kindergarten to 5th grade. Their main goal was to determine the extent to which social and behavioral factors, including learning-related skills, problem behaviors, and interpersonal skills, explain these gaps and shed light on the academic difficulties specifically experienced by African American boys. The authors utilized the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) sample and applied growth curve modeling. Learning-related skills explained the literacy development of African American boys over and above the effects of problem behaviors, socioeconomic status, …
Bridging The Mathematics Achievement Gap In Struggling Urban Schools, Marcia Heiman
Bridging The Mathematics Achievement Gap In Struggling Urban Schools, Marcia Heiman
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
As a result of school reform efforts, many school districts report that gains have been made in students’ math scores in the elementary years. But America’s high-poverty middle and high schools remain in crisis. Beyond the elementary years, students in the nation’s high-poverty schools are failing. For example, despite years of school reform, math achievement in Detroit has declined in the last five years. For example, 25% of Detroit’s high school students scored proficiently on statewide math tests in 2004 – as compared with only 16% in the most recent reports. ( www.schoolmatters.com). At the end of high school, Hispanic …
Predicting Adequate Yearly Progress: Leaving Explanation Behind, Jenifer Moore
Predicting Adequate Yearly Progress: Leaving Explanation Behind, Jenifer Moore
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The purpose of this research was to determine if the variables included in the Mississippi Report Card utilized for the calculation of AYP can be used to predict whether or not Mississippi LEAs will attain adequate yearly progress in reading and math using the logistic regression technique. This study demonstrated that using the variables utilized for the calculation of AYP, a predictive model can be successfully utilized to classify Mississippi LEAs that will and will not attain AYP in reading and math with an accuracy greater than that which can be attributed to chance.