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Inequity of resources that impedes on the success of students.

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Students that are not achieving the same level of success due to issues in equity and access.

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The Achievement Gap can be defined as a discrepancy in academic performance levels among various subgroups. Contributing factors include race, socio-economic status, demographics and culture/religion.

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The achievement gap is the separation between those with access to resources attained socially and those without. Some factors that contribute are human resources available in the community (home, school, health, etc), financial resources such as property taxes, and social-hierarchy where some communities reinforce their social position whether wealth or poverty.

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All students not receiving equal resources for education

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Students not having equal access to resources and not achieving goals set forth by educators.

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The difference in rich educational experiences between economic groups.
Literacy and resource gap.

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not having equitable education for all, because of having a lack of resources

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everyone being able to access curriculum,

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The achievement gap is the gap in the academic merit/achievement (meaning the acquisition and retention of new knowledge) that is evident between students or groups of students.

The contributing factors are access, resources, labeling or perception of student ability or lack of ability.

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Not all receiving same equity and access due to factors seen and unseen-opportunities to succeed.
Lack of resources (education, financial, biases, exposure to things outside of community/culture), racism

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How do you define the achievement gap? What are some factors that contribute to that gap?