Educational Achievement Gap

Report: The Educational Achievement Gaps

Done By:

Bdoor A. AL-Helal ID# 200 600 544

Submitted To:

Dr. Yazan Al-Ghazo

Educ 5316: Literacy and Diverse Student Populations

Table of Contents

Introduction 3

What Is Achievement Gap in Education? ……………………………………………………..… 3

Causes of the Educational Achievement Gaps ..………..……………………………………….. 4

How to Narrow the Educational Achievement Gaps? 5

Benefits of Narrowing the Educational Achievement Gaps 6

Conclusion 6

References 8

Introduction

Some countries are currently experiencing growing levels of income and wealth inequality, which strongly contributes to large gaps in education outcomes and other areas as well. In fact, these large gaps with the major demographic

In fact, the lack of access to high quality education in a student's early years has a great impact on his/her academic performance and accomplishment. Public schools are expected to offer equal opportunity to all students in order to prepare them to succeed in the academic and professional lives and ultimately in their contributions to society. Some countries are struggling to fulfill this specific promise. An equitable education system is the key to the health and well-being of the democracy and the ability of the country to successfully compete in the global economy. These problems require new strategies to deliver quality education to all students. Thus, the critical issue for closing the opportunity gaps in public education is the investment in setting high quality standards for what all students need to learn in order to succeed in the 21st century (Educational Testing Service,

• Weak testing and assessment designs that may skew scores for certain students over others, such as online tests/computer-based tests offered to students with low technological literacy or cultural-bias tests and use terms or concepts that may be less understandable to certain students.

How to Narrow the Educational Achievement Gaps? At the district, administrators and teachers may employ a wide range of strategies to narrow the educational achievement gaps. Indeed, most of these strategies are intended to address the issue of the achievement gaps either directly or indirectly by calling for “reform” which typically result from a desire to improve the educational achievement of low-performing students. According to the website called “IN.gov”, there are numerous strategies for narrowing the educational achievement gap which are listed below;

• Provide school leaders, teachers, and parents with data and research to shed light on the damaging practice of expecting less academic performance and