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Younger, Queietasha – ProQuest LLC, 2014
African American male students in elementary schools are scoring approximately 30% lower than their peers in reading and content areas. There are many factors causing the discrepancy; indeed, the complexity of the problem has inhibited a clear solution. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine factors associated with low…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Racial Differences, Elementary School Students
Green, Sarah Elizabeth; Smith, Thomas – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The goal of the overall study was to evaluate the potential of Math Recovery (MR), a pullout, one-to-one tutoring program, to increase mathematics achievement among low-performing first graders, thereby closing the school-entry achievement gap by enabling them to achieve at the level of their higher-performing peers in the regular mathematics…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Mathematics Instruction, Tutors, Teacher Characteristics