{"id":289,"date":"2019-03-11T16:12:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/achievementgap\/?p=289"},"modified":"2019-03-12T03:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T03:09:50","slug":"boston-public-schools-systematic-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/achievementgap\/2019\/03\/11\/boston-public-schools-systematic-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Public Schools Systematic Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"

The achievement gap as we know it starts off from a very young age. The gap then continues to increase due to the lack of outside of the school resources, as well as support systems. One prominent aid to the achievement gap is the loss of learning, or the halt of learning over the long summer break, also called summer learning loss.<\/span>Summer learning loss is a loss of progressive learning over the summer such as, not having access to summer camps where brain stimulation can potentially be continued, as well as limited access to libraries and other learning aids that wealthier students and parents have access to, which all stems from financial inadequacies\/ differences.<\/p>\n

The achievement gap is almost always associated with wealth, and class status. In America, if you are wealthy, you can afford better education in order to maintain a higher class\/ social status. If you are middle class you may have a chance to get into the higher class status, but most likely will stay middle class. However if you are in the lower class, the limited access to basically every and any important life needs directly affect your ability to thrive, which in turn keeps you in the same low wealth class, or can even sink you further down. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the Boston public school system, we see the direct correlation between class status and education achievements. Looking at the graphs I have presented, we see the 3rd grade scores from the Mcas, then to the 5th grade level and finally the 8th. Looking at the graphs we see a steady progression or regression in students reaching the exceeding expectations level, as well as a increase of students ending up onto the partially meeting and not meeting expectations levels. With this knowledge as well as knowing that the Boston Public school system is made primarily of low income minority students with only a very limited number of wealthy white students, we can directly see that the achievement gap gets worse as the students get older, and if we are to fix the gap in general we need to start out with the younger generations, and implement ways for low income students to thrive in a poor system that is built to be against them. <\/span><\/p>\n

Taking a look at these graphs from the Boston public school system versus data from the states overall mcas standards, one may argue that the Boston public school district is not doing entirely that bad, but whether or not if the scores are below standards it points that there is a problem in the system, and this is also true because the standards for the standardized tests in the state of massachusetts are significantly higher in other states, so if the gap is already this drastic in MA, imagine what it might be in an area with already low standards for their tests!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The achievement gap as we know it starts off from a very young age. The gap then continues to increase due to the lack of outside of the school resources, as well as support systems. One prominent aid to the achievement gap is the loss of learning, or the halt of learning over the long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8750,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/achievementgap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/achievementgap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/achievementgap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/achievementgap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/achievementgap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/achievementgap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/achievementgap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/achievementgap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/achievementgap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/achievementgap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}