Closing the Achievement Gap: The Experience of a Middle School

Autor/in	LaRocque, Michelle
Titel	Closing the Achievement Gap: The Experience of a Middle School
Quelle	In: Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 80 (2007) 4, S.157-161 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-8655
Schlagwörter	Community Involvement; Accountability; Academic Achievement; Middle School Students; State Standards; School Effectiveness; Educational Improvement; Instructional Leadership; Decision Making; Research Utilization; Data Collection; Cultural Pluralism; Student Diversity; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verantwortung; Schulleistung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Schuleffizienz; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Forschungsumsetzung; Data capture; Datensammlung; Kulturpluralismus
Abstract	The accountability imperative requires schools to evaluate the effectiveness of educational programs. Florida answered the accountability imperative by instituting statewide objective assessments and assigning grades to schools. The latter move led to several initiatives concerning the practices that improve schools in Florida. This article describes how leadership, community involvement, data-driven decision making, and the celebration of diversity reversed a negative trend in the academic achievement of students in one middle school. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10