EDTHP 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Achievement Gap In The United States

• School: PSU
• Department: Educational Theory and Policy
• Course: EDTHP 115
• Professor: Maryellen Schaub

Document Summary

Teach info relevant, not just for the test. There does not have to be an achievement gap. A persistent, measurable difference in academic achievements between subpopulations. Measured by standardized tests*, high school completion rates, college completion rates, course taken. Between groups of ascribed characteristics like: gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status. The role of schooling in the reduction. Americans don"t believe in social intervention, but believe in schooling. Not everyone achieves to the level of their potential based on the schooling the receive. Achievement gap has been reduced over the past 40 years. With the exception of family background, that is growing. The african american exception (across school careers) As kids are exposed to schooling, the gaps get smaller, except for. Expose some kids to preschool, so by the time they got to kindergarten, they would be at the same level as high level socioeconomic kids. Schools with high proportion of low income students.