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Measuring The Achievement Gap: A New Lens For Economic Disadvantage, Suzanne C. Bryant
Measuring The Achievement Gap: A New Lens For Economic Disadvantage, Suzanne C. Bryant
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The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a difference between a student’s reading/language arts TCAP scale score and his or her lunch status for students in grades three, four, & five within two school systems in Tennessee. The population consisted of 2,442 students who were in grades three, four, and five during the 2014-2015 school year in a city school system in east Tennessee and a county school system in middle Tennessee. The Kruskal-Wallis H, a non-parametric test, was used to identify statistically significant differences in the medians of the reading/language arts TCAP scores across the …