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


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 ...

Please Stop Using the Phrase 'Achievement Gap' - Chalkbeat

Further, the term "achievement gap" is inaccurate because it blames the historically marginalized, under-served victims of poor schooling and ...

Please Stop Using the Phrase 'Achievement Gap' - GOOD

Further, the term "achievement gap" is inaccurate because it blames the historically marginalized, under-served victims of poor schooling and ...

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

We've stopped saying “achievement gap” when referring to the difference in academic performance between students from low-income communities and those from ...

Let's Stop Using the Term 'Achievement Gap' | by Autumn A. Arnett

When we talk about an academic achievement gap in this country, we must do so in the context of an opportunity gap, which has said to black and ...

The Achievement Gap in Education Is Really an Opportunity Gap

However it didn't take me long to see that this so-called achievement gap in education doesn't actually exist. The phrase, it seemed to me, was ...

Why We Need to Stop Calling Poor Performance the Achievement Gap

It is never a bad thing to attempt to close gaps in student learning. If anything, the term achievement gap is just outdated. As Shani Jackson ...

Rethinking the Achievement Gap | Penn GSE

Schools are not the major cause of the achievement gap. Long before kids go to school, the gap is alive and well, and, during the academic year when kids are ...

Stop Talking About 'Gaps' in Education—Talk About Harm (Opinion)

Conceptual "achievement" Gap illustration of a large silhouette of a white child with a ... using the word “gap” somehow justified the separation.

A Plea: Stop Using the Term “Achievement Gap” | Diane Ravitch's blog

My thoughts, Dr. Royal: This phrase (“the achievement gap”) is used cynically by self-proclaimed “reformers” who have no genuine interest in ...

Reframing Educational Outcomes: Moving beyond Achievement Gaps

The term “achievement gap” has a negative and racialized history, and using the term reinforces a deficit mindset that is ingrained in U.S. ...

Why We Should Worry Less About The "Achievement Gap" - Blog

The achievement gap is just a symptom of a bigger problem... a dissonance between the rich mathematical experiences students should have and what they actually ...

The term 'achievement gap' fosters a negative view of Black students

Despite long-standing efforts to close the racial “achievement gap” in education, the term does more to trigger racist stereotypes and causes a lower sense of ...

The Achievement Gap Fails to Close - Education Next

Despite the topic's importance, surprisingly little scholarship has focused on long-term changes in the size of the achievement gap between ...

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

"The achievement gap is as big today as it was for children born in 1954, with disadvantaged students three to four years behind their more ...

Closing the Achievement Gap - ASCD

Between 1970 and 1988, the achievement gap between African American and white students was ... with jobs that no longer exist. In ...

Reframing Educational Outcomes: Moving beyond Achievement Gaps

The term “achievement gap” has a negative and racialized history, and using the term reinforces a deficit mindset that is ingrained in U.S. educational ...

3 Reasons We Have an Opportunity Gap, Not an Achievement Gap

Thereore, the term “achievement gap” suggests issues with intelligence, motivation, family structure, etc. Yet, the gaps we see in test scores, ...

Student achievement gap same after nearly 50 years, study says

The achievement gap between disadvantaged and well-off students is as wide today as it was for children born in 1954 when it comes to tests in math, reading, ...

Not an “Achievement Gap”, a Racial Capitalist Chasm - LPE Project

The problem we face is not an “achievement gap;” it is a racial capitalist chasm. To call it by its real name, though, must be more than a ...