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NARROWING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND SUSTAINING SUCCESS:
A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE NORMS, PRACTICES, AND PROGRAMS OF A SUCCESSFUL HIGH SCHOOL WITH URBAN CHARACTERISTICS
by
Donald Raymond Senesac
________________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2010
Copyright 2010 Donald Raymond Senesac
Object Description
| Title | Narrowing the achievement gap and sustaining success: a qualitative study of the norms, practices, and programs of a successful high school with urban characteristics |
| Author | Senesac, Donald Raymond |
| Author email | senesac@usc.edu; ray.senesac@ouhsd.k12.ca.us |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-02-26 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-04-30 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Gothold, Stuart |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hocevar, Dennis Schwartz, Kyunghae |
| Abstract | The academic achievement gap is the manifestation of differential learning outcomes for students typified by membership in an ethnic minority sub group or economically disadvantaged sub group. Addressing the achievement gap has become vital for the nation as a whole, and even more critical for the state of California because the majority of students in California are composed of low achieving minority student groups. The lower academic achievement status of minority groups limits an individual‘s ability to accumulate social capital, pursue a post secondary education, and limits their lifetime earnings.; The purpose of this study was to investigate the norms, practices and programs implemented at an academically successful high school located in California‘s central valley with urban characteristics, including a high percentage of minority sub group and low socio-economic students, that has sustained academic success over three years.; The factors that were identified as having an impact on student achievement were: a culture with an academic focus, shared leadership, administrative leadership that empowers the staff members, structured collaboration, data driven decision making, standards based assessment and re-teaching, and multiple levels of student interventions to ensure success. |
| Keyword | urban; practices; programs; norms; successful high school |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Coverage date | 2009 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2977 |
| Rights | Senesac, Donald Raymond |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Senesac-3644 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Senesac-3644.pdf |
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| Full text | NARROWING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND SUSTAINING SUCCESS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE NORMS, PRACTICES, AND PROGRAMS OF A SUCCESSFUL HIGH SCHOOL WITH URBAN CHARACTERISTICS by Donald Raymond Senesac ________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2010 Copyright 2010 Donald Raymond Senesac |
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