Strategy that narrows academic achievement gap by 63 percent
Saturday, February 15, 2014 - 05:01
in Psychology & Sociology
Americans don't like to discuss social class but new research finds it's imperative that colleges and universities do. A one-hour intervention by researchers closed the persistent academic achievement gap between students who are the first in their families to attend college and students with parents with a college degree. Key to the intervention's success is deliberate discussion of how one's social class background shapes one's college experience.