Policy Issues in Public Education in the USA: A Literature Review
Date
2022-07
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Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research (CADSR)
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The achievement gap is ‘one of the most pressing education-policy challenges that states currently face’. This literature review explores various approaches to narrowing the achievement gap. It considers the issues of efficiency in financing public education, problems encountered by educators and policymakers on the way of implementing policies aimed at overcoming the achievement gap, as well as success and failures of said policies. It concludes that none of the individual approaches suggested as means of narrowing the achievement gap is in itself a panacea for all the woes in public education. It is important to consider a combination of approaches in every particular case. Policymakers might be tempted to regard certain successful instances as best practices; however, it may be impossible to replicate them in other educational settings nationwide due to the specific factors that yielded a victory in each individual case.
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Public Education, Policy Issues, Achievement gap, Student academic outcome, Approaches to narrowing the achievement gap