Gap or Gaps: Challenging the Singular Definition of the Achievement Gap  

Oleh:

Carpenter, Dick M. ; Ramirez, Alfonso

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Education And Urban Society vol. 39 no. 1 (Nov. 2006), page 113-127.
Topik: achievement gaps; NELS
Fulltext: 113.pdf (94.28KB)

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For decades, researchers examined the “achievement gap” between minority and nonminority students. This singular definition of achievement gap ignores important within-group differences. This article uses National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS:88) data to examine within-group differences and compares those across Latino, African American, and White populations. Results question the singular definition of achievement gap. Given the importance of how issues are defined, a singular definition of achievement gap may mean current policies miss the mark in raising achievement levels between and within groups.

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