| Statistics related to the performance of minority students, coupled with increases in minority enrollment and state- and federal-level accountability measures, have made finding ways to improve the achievement of all students even more imperative. This brief synthesizes papers from McREL’s series of Diversity Roundtables, in an effort to identify some of the causes of marginalized students’ low performance. This brief also offers research-based suggestions for helping to improve these students’ academic achievement: - Provide all students with rigorous curricula.
- Help teachers improve instruction.
- Provide support to students.
- Create smaller classes and school units.
- Increase parent involvement.
- Change the policies and incentives that make low-performing schools less attractive and develop ways to keep effective teachers in them.
- Establish strong, yet fair, accountability.
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