Unstack the Odds: Zap the Achievement Gap

Group Questions Lack of Improvement in City Schools Test Scores - Business Journal Daily | The Youngstown Publishing Company YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The Youngstown City School District’s test scores are not improving, and a community group wants to know why. The Community Education Oversight Task Force is calling for action as the start of the school year nears. “Youngstown…

Achievement gap in standardized testing was growing. COVID added fuel to the fire. The highest-scoring students have improved academically while those who score lowest have gone the other way. Here's why experts are concerned.

The basics of parenting In order to reduce achievement gaps between children of different backgrounds, five basic principles have been developed from scientific literature by the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University. The basic

Kindergarten Readiness Continues To Decline In Sonoma County The opportunity gap persists, according to a new report from Sonoma County's Department of Human Services.

Family Background Has As Much Impact On Education Now As It Did 100 Years Ago A century of efforts to give children equal opportunity in school have failed to dent the role of family background, according to a U.K. study.

Students in Majority Black Schools Now a Full 12 Months Behind White Peers Students in majority-Black schools are now a full 12 months behind those in mostly white schools, widening the achievement gap by a third, according to a new analysis by McKinsey & Co. Overall, students are four months behind in math and three in reading compared with years past, but those totals hi...

‘Achievement gap’ still plagues California schools In 2013, California’s system of financing public schools was overhauled in an effort to close the “achievement gap,” but we still don’t know whether it’s working.

Native American students face some of the largest achievement gaps. Here's how one school is trying to close them. - California News Times Soboba Indian Reservation, CA (KABC)-Anthony Contreras, Abine Valles, Iyana “Tot” Briones, Face Vega are teenagers with different goals after graduating from high school. 16-year-old Contreras wants to participate in Native American Studies. 17-year-old Neveres wants to get a degree, return to t...

The Pandemic Hurt These Students the Most New research shows that all groups are behind in math and reading after disruptions during the pandemic. But it’s the most vulnerable students who experienced the steepest setbacks.

When money's tight, parents talk less to kids; could this explain the word gap? Tackling income inequality could boost low-income children's vocabulary, new study suggests Parenting deficiencies have long been blamed for the vocabulary gap between low-income children and their more affluent peers. But new research implicates the economic context in which parenting takes place -- in other words, the wealth gap.

Poverty sets kids behind, before they even enter kindergarten. Here's how we stop it Gaps in learning for children living in poverty start long before they enter kindergarten. That's why we need to invest in early education.

Opinion | Is Education No Longer the ‘Great Equalizer’? It lifts all boats, but not by equal amounts.