Shrinking Opportunity and Achievement Gaps
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2018) | Viewed by 6027
Special Issue Editors
Interests: opportunity gaps; achievement gaps; superintendent decision-making; teaching for meaning; governance
Interests: legal and ethical literacy; equity; opportunity gaps; achievement gaps; social justice; discrimination; reflective leadership
Interests: achievement and motivation; administration/management; credentialing/preparation; decision making; educational equity; learning communities; organizational change; organizations; principal training; qualitative research methods; school leadership
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, “Shrinking Opportunity and Achievement Gaps”, addresses the unhappy reality that educational proficiency and attainment can be predicted on the basis of factors that should be superfluous, such as race, ethnicity, social class and dominant language. The resulting disparities in achievement appear to be driven, in large part, by opportunity gaps that exist in the general society outside of school. Schools, however, strive to fashion instructional and organizational interventions capable of mediating the effects of these opportunity gaps, as well as correct factors in school culture, curriculum, and instruction contributing to gaps in both opportunity and achievement.
We welcome for inclusion in this Special Issue articles that: (1) provide a theoretical basis for narrowing gaps; (2) present studies (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed) that demonstrate effective gap shrinking interventions, and/or (3) describe practices that narrowed gaps successfully.
Dr. Robert G. Smith
Dr. Regina Biggs
Dr. S. David Brazer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- opportunity gaps
- achievement gaps
- equity
- racism
- discrimination
- cultural competence
- diversity
- professional development
- instructional coherence
- brief interventions
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