When the discussion comes up about the achievement gap, many people look at schools where there is a huge disparity between different groups of students. After that, researchers examine these schools to see what they are doing wrong, and what they could be doing better, but what about schools and regions where we see a drop in the achievement gap? Continue reading
Author: Justin Alvino
While there are many aspects in schools that need to be changed, school lunches are a hot topic that people have been complaining about for years, deeming the food unhealthy or just unappetizing. For many students, especially in low income areas, this school lunch could be their most substantial meal of the day. Continue reading
Tracking is a divisive practice within the world of education, with policy makers on both sides either heralding it as a practice that benefits everyone on all tracks by providing and individualized approach to teaching, and others saying it only benefits those in the higher tracks by providing these high tracks with the best quality of teachers, creating large gaps of knowledge. When lower and higher tracks drift farther apart from each other, this causes the achievement gap to increase between white students and black students. Continue reading
Overview
While many members of older generations brush it off, claiming that depression and anxiety aren’t real problems like broken bones and open wounds, mental health is effecting the academic achievement of students across the country, and is a problem that needs to be examined. Continue reading
Observations
After observing the ELA test scores from 2018 between 3rd graders from my (Justin) local public school and the state of Massachusetts, we have come to the conclusion that the local elementary school, overall, is performing better than the state as a whole. Both groups of students that we observed, economically advantaged and economically disadvantaged, that attended the Page School performed better than their counterparts on the state level.