APSY1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Achievement Gap In The United States, Elementary And Secondary Education Act, No Child Left Behind Act

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY1031
• Professor: Francesca Longo

Document Summary

Achieve gap exists even at the start of school: between low-income and high-income students on reading and math scores. Expulsion rates: increase in number of black students expelled but not huge change in that of white students. Schools are funded through federal, state, local funds. Types of state-level funding: progressive, equitable, more funding to districts with high levels of low-income, flat, each district gets same amount of money, regressive, allocates less funding to those districts with more low-income students. Opportunity gap: deficiencies in foundational components of societies, schools, and communities that produce significant differences in educational and ultimately socioeconomic outcomes. Achievement gap rooted in historical and persistent marginalization and exploitation of poor people and people of color. Brown v board of education: countered plessy v ferguson. Promote equal access to education through allocation of federal funds and establishing accountability measures. Title i: provision of federal funding to schools with at least 40% of student body as low-income.