"The Achievement Gap" The goal of public schools in the US is to give American citizens a chance at an equal education. However somewhere over time this system has failed to provide all children with this said education. More specifically it has failed at giving African American children an adequate education. When looking at mandatory state test scores of African Americans they are significantly lower than those of white Americans. The achievement gap in education between whites and blacks is
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2.2 Create a leadership strategy that supports organizational direction Organizations need leadership strategies in order to create confidence for employees and other stakeholders that there is a clear direction in which the organization aims to head. Understanding leadership culture is the first stage to creating an effective leadership strategy; the next step is to assess the relationship between staff and their leaders and bring emotional intelligence into play‚ this will become a necessity for
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An achievement gap is an observed disproportion found among students of different races. Without an achievement gap‚ all students would have the same opportunity to earn an equal education. Students across the United States are compared based on their race‚ behavior‚ home environment‚ brain thickness‚ and culture to gather data. These aspects lead to the creation of an achievement gap‚ which causes students to feel obligated to perform a certain way. By reducing the importance of these factors‚ children
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POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES National Achievement Test Result of Grade VI Pupils of SY 2012-2013 and SY 2013-2014: An Analysis (RESEARCH STUDY) BY: Introduction “Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your school are the work of many generations produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labor in every country in the world. All this is put into your hand as your inheritance in order that you may receive it‚ honor it‚ add to it‚ and one day
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Highly competent children often do not display patterns of achievement motivation (Phillips‚ 1987). Research has shown that a child ’s perception of his or her competence is a better indicator of achievement motivation than the reality of his or her ability. (Bandura‚ 1977; Covington‚ 1984; Nicholls‚ 1982‚ Weiner‚ 1979). Not only does the child influence his achievement motivation but teachers and parents have a significant impact and influence on how the child views his or her abilities. Research
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Achievement Results Scenario 1 The problem for this client is more then just about his grades or his SAT scores. The client plans on attending Yale where his parents attended‚ but is worried about his SAT scores being high enough to get accepted. He is concerned about earning anything less then almost perfect grades and is worried about disappointing his parents by not getting accepted into Yale and graduating. It is obvious that the client wants to do well at things‚ but his reasonings for
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expect or how the meeting would play out however‚ I think the meeting went well. Being able to share my case with my peers gave me new insights on a few different methods that can be used to support a student with a learning and behavior disability. Through this meeting I was able to come up with new strategies that can be implemented by myself‚ the student‚ and the parents in order to better assist the student’s learning needs. Being the homeroom teacher I felt very supported and I felt I had to be confident
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by thousands of personnel by 2020. The Army will lose 20‚000 soldiers‚ the Navy 6‚000 personnel and the RAF 5‚000. I found this news report on BBC news. The BBC presented this in favour of the public services as they will be saving money and will be able to afford more equipment. It does affect the citizens because more people are becoming redundant and losing their jobs causing people be jobless and losing a job they that they love. The media has presented this story in many different ways such as
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Learning Strategies Lesson Learning Strategies Lesson According to Dr. Deshler‚ most students begin to experience a performance gap in the fifth grade (Laureate Education‚ Inc.‚ 2012a). The bridge to close this gap is built by changing the pedagogy of the teacher and the learning strategies of the students. The learning strategies taught to the students enable them to develop into independent thinkers and learners (Friend & Bursuck‚ 2009). Student-centered learning incorporates effective
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Achieving Results How is achievement defined‚ and what are the values behind achieving? People can have different ideas and personal definitions about what achievement means‚ which explains why the dictionary’s definition is very broad. Achievement is defined by Webster’s dictionary and thesaurus as simply being “a result gained by effort” (“Achievement”). The definition of achievement in my discipline of Environmental Science is certainly linked to the dictionary definition‚ but the results of
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