The reforms missed a critical factor driving achievement gaps: the influence of
poverty on academic performance.
Not exact matches
High Standards for All Students: A Report from the National Assessment of Title I
on Progress and Challenges Since the 1994 Reauthorization (2001) provides a comprehensive summary of the most recent data available from the National Assessment of Title I
on the implementation of the Title I program and the
academic performance of children in high -
poverty schools.
Decades of research have shown that
poverty has a strong and negative impact
on student
academic performance.
The program focuses
on decreasing dropout rates of immigrant Latino youth, which result in
academic performance gaps that perpetuate
poverty and create significant health disparities and costly social and economic impacts to the state as well as important concerns about the preparation of the future workforce.