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Get the Facts on the Achievement Gap


Get the Facts on the Achievement Gap - Walton Family Foundation

In the United States, there are persistent gaps separating students: on average, black and Hispanic students score below their white peers in ...

The Academic Achievement Gap: Facts & Figures

The educational achievement gap in the United States exists in and out of the classroom, and extends from the earliest years of childhood across the lifespan.

Achievement Gaps | NAEP - National Center for Education Statistics

NCES explored the achievement gaps between Black and White, and Hispanic and White, students using NAEP data to illuminate patterns and changes in these gaps ...

The Socioeconomic Achievement Gap in the US Public Schools

Occasionally, the achievement gap will be referred to as an opportunity gap to focus more on the lack of resources than student output. ECE— ...

Rethinking the Achievement Gap | Penn GSE

Since the 1960s, attempted solutions to this problem have generally fallen into four different categories: preschool reforms, teacher reforms, instructional ...

Achievement Gap - Education Week

While National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results show that, over time, black and Hispanic students have made great strides in ...

Achievement Gap Dashboard - The Nation's Report Card

Over the years, achievement gaps may widen, narrow, or remain the same depending on the amount of change in the average scores for the two student groups. Find ...

8 Ways to Close the Achievement Gap in Schools | Hanover Research

Not all students learn the same way. Identify and close K–12 achievement gaps with these tips to promote positive student outcomes for all.

Despite Progress, Achievement Gaps Persist During Recovery from ...

New research finds achievement gaps in math and reading, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, remain and have grown in some states, ...

Racial and Ethnic Achievement Gaps

In fact, some of the achievement gaps grew larger in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Since the 1990s, however, achievement gaps in every grade and subject have ...

9 Ways Schools Are Closing the Achievement Gap

In education, an achievement gap refers to a difference in performance between what students are expected to have learned and what they have actually learned.

The Achievement Gap: What It Is and How It Affects Your Students

As educators, we always notice gaps and different learning styles among our students, but why is this? Researchers have deemed this “the ...

How uneven educational outcomes begin, and persist, in the US

Long before graduation, factors including early education, household income gaps, and disciplinary actions affect students' abilities to access ...

What Is the Achievement Gap (and Can Quality Pre-K Help?)

Evidence for the achievement gap is most commonly found in dropout rates, test scores, college enrollment rates and other measurements of ...

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

Yet we know that empowering children to achieve academically is the responsibility of adults. Low-income students don't have lower tests scores ...

Achievement gaps in the United States - Wikipedia

Attempts to minimize the achievement gap by improving equality of access to educational opportunities have been numerous but fragmented. These efforts include ...

Explaining Achievement Gaps: The Role of Socioeconomic Factors

As Paul Morgan explains, “Children from higher SES families, who are disproportionately White and Asian, have a head start in terms of ...

The Achievement Gap Hasn't Budged In 50 Years. Now What?

New evidence shows the massive gap in test scores between students from the wealthiest and poorest families hasn't budged in fifty years.

7 fast facts about higher education equity gaps - EAB

Achievement gap implies that the onus for the disparate outcome is on the student. That is, they failed to achieve something, and therefore, ...

Tracing Black-white achievement gaps since the Brown decision

That's why I also wanted to trace the data on academic achievement over the same time period. Unfortunately, we don't have consistent test ...