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Why We Say “Opportunity Gap” Instead of “Achievement Gap”

So rather than saying “achievement gap,” we believe there's a need to frame the problem in a way that is accurate and allows us to hold everyone ...

Opportunity Gap | Close the Gap Foundation

The opportunity gap is the way that uncontrollable life factors like race, language, economic, and family situations can contribute to lower rates of success in ...

Reframing Educational Outcomes: Moving beyond Achievement Gaps

The framework of opportunity gaps shifts the onus of differential student performance away from individual deficiencies and assigns solutions to ...

Why I Am No Longer Using the Phrase “Achievement Gap”

When we choose to use the phrase “opportunity gap” rather than “achievement gap,” it sends a clearer message that these gaps do not exist ...

Closing opportunity gaps in education is the only way to close ...

The achievement gap between. White students and Black and. Latino students correlates to the. OPPORTUNITY GAP—disparity in access to quality schools and the.

Close Opportunity Gaps Without Gimmicks: Four Lessons From ...

Recent years have brought a greater understanding that achievement gaps result from opportunity gaps. If we attend to the latter, we can address the former.

Choosing the Opportunity Gap

The “achievement gap,” then, isn't inevitable. It's baked into the system, resulting from the decisions adults make, consciously and unconsciously, about which ...

Opportunity and Achievement Gaps

What is an opportunity gap? What is the achievement gap? Input. Result. Page 7. The Challenge: Everyone's 'shot' at success. Students. Achievement. ○ Not ...

Achievement Gap vs. Opportunity Gap - LinkedIn

The achievement gap has highlighted measurable outcomes and differences in achievement between demographics of students.

Education Opportunity Gaps - MOST Policy Initiative

An individual's access to early education, school resources, advanced classes, and experienced teachers may affect educational achievements.

Buzzwords explained: opportunity gap vs. achievement gap

Buzzwords explained: opportunity gap vs. achievement gap ... gap vs. achievement gap. June 6, 2017 ... by Kate Brown ... Development Associate, Reading ...

Part I: Achievement Gap, Or Opportunity Gap? What's Stopping ...

The achievement gap is the persistent disparity in academic achievement between minority and disadvantaged students and their white counterparts.

Summary - Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children - NCBI

The achievement gap refers to the effect of the opportunity gap—disparities in academic outcomes and well-being among different groups of children. To ...

Rebuilding the Ladder of Educational Opportunity - ERIC

Achievement gaps are sizable and persistent differences in academic outcomes between different groups of students, and they receive the lion's share of ink in ...

How the 'opportunity gap' impacts success in life

A new study looks at the lasting impact of childhood opportunities including after school clubs, music and sports.

1 Achievement Gaps Arise from Opportunity Gaps - Oxford Academic

While the nation's leaders have concentrated almost exclusively on an achievement gap policy whereby students, teachers, and schools are measured and sanctioned ...

Achievement Gaps | NAEP - National Center for Education Statistics

Achievement gaps occur when one group of students (e.g., students grouped by race/ethnicity, gender) outperforms another group and the ...

Achievement and opportunity gaps inform, not define, us

Stephen Pruitt As a nation, we talk a lot about the achievement gap. The achievement gap is the persistent difference in many measures of ...

Racial and Ethnic Achievement Gaps

One key set of measures of racial educational equality are racial achievement gaps—differences in the average standardized test scores of white and black or ...

The Achievement Gap in Education Is Really an Opportunity Gap

There isn't some innate difference in the academic prowess of students based on their race or socioeconomic background. But there are structural ...