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Educational Legislation
EDUCATION
Education plays a key role in molding and to guide pupils, from the tender age to old age, and offers them with rightful skills to face the challenges of the modern society. However, educational gaps render learning difficult for some people to achieve their dreams of getting education to a higher level. American government, in turn, has set up Legislations to govern such people and to ensure proper, accessible and equal opportunity to all without discrimination whatsoever. Achievement gap shows the differences that exist between the academic performances of two or more groups, due to factors such as different socioeconomic class, race, sex.
Poverty is a socioeconomic gap that clearly brings out the disparities between the rich and the poor. From research, people believed that the poor children did not take education seriously unless pushed. On the other hand, the rich attended classes and seminars, if need be, for they had enough resources to cater for them and by constant encouragements from their parents. Believes that the poor lacked enough education motivation from their parents, especially generationally poor children, acted as a demoralization tool to the poor from learning. Myths were put forth to describe education for poor children, such as they share monolithic and predictable beliefs and behaviors....
Such myths were meant to demoralize the poor children from seeking education and choose to remain like their poor parents. Classism too aids the educational gap. It encourages biasness making the low class students helpless in school activities.
A step to advance is taken by the poor in order to improve their education status and fill the gap. From research, it is evident that the poor have immense potential in education than the rich. Leaders in educational institutions should be equipped with the necessary data and research on how they should do in order to abolish gap myths. This will enable students, teachers and parents to identify a way forward on practices that are damaging, to the poor and minority students. Supporting of the low performing students by identifying community networks should be applicable in all schools. This will enable the parents and teachers to identify main child's problem. Parents should be incorporated, in the school partnership program, to support such children and bridge the gap. To enable teachers understand speeds that different children learn with, instructional opportunities should be implemented in schools. This will enable teachers to offer ample time to every student no matter the learning pace. Schools that serve a large numbers of students should be provided with enough number of teachers who are well…
Achievement Gap Provide 3 reasons why Ladson-Billings defines the "achievement gap" as the "educational debt." Ladson and Billings are defining achievement gaps as educational debt based upon three primary factors. The most notable include: historical, economic and social - political factors. These different areas transform how someone looks at achievement and their role in reaching different objectives. (Ladson -- Billings, 2006) Historical components are focusing on how inequalities existed in many areas of
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Introduction All significant approaches to educational development are always multi-faceted endeavors with several aspects, decisions, dimensions, and alternatives that have to be considered. Since education is a sector that brings many people in society together, any alternatives arrived at should be agreed upon by the majority and common ground reached. Also, because education has different levels in society, the alternatives chosen must be consistent with and align with other alternatives at
We know this situation is particularly critical for special education, ESL, and bilingual teachers. Although these teachers require an even deeper understanding of reading, language, curricula, and instructional practices than do mainstream teachers, in fact they have even fewer opportunities in their preparation programs to acquire this expertise." (RAND, nd) The report states that as well that grade retention does not result achievement in reading on a long-term basis
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197). There have also been a number of software applications developed specifically for use in the classroom that can provide at-risk students with the opportunity to catch up with their peers, but here again it is important to recognize that at-risk students may lack the same level of computer expertise as their peers and steps must be taken to ensure that they have been provided with the initial training