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Chapter 1
Overview
This chapter will provide a brief background of the school system, school reform, and
its impact on the development of American high schools and American high school
students. The second section will look at the student demographic profile including
ethnicity, language status, school status and graduation rates for the United States in
general and California in particular. The third section will examine the district and its
request for assistance, the focus of this project, and the importance of this work to the
field of education.
Historical Background
In modern society, the world has become a more global and competitive community
and the role of education has become increasingly more important because American
students need to be able to compete in the global marketplace. The need to reform our
educational system has been the focus of the nation since the U.S. Supreme Court
decision Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which eliminated the segregation of
schools in the United States. The advent of the Brown decision demonstrated the need to
close gaps in the educational system for all children, no matter their race or ethnic
identity. Years after the Brown decision, in 1965, two more pieces of legislation, the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which requires states and local
districts to focus on the achievement of at-risk students by improving services available
to them, and the Head Start Act.
Object Description
| Title | Improving college participation success in Glendale Unified School District: An application of the gap analysis model |
| Author | Cassady, Dawn Marie |
| Author email | Kedwyn@aol.com; cassady@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-01-22 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-04-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Marsh, David D. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Rueda, Robert S. Arias, Robert J. |
| Abstract | From the time of Brown v. Board of Education, the role of education has been on the forefront of our social, political and economic landscape. Legislation such as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and No Child Left Behind as well as publications like A Nation at Risk have all illustrated the lack of access, equity and achievement in American schools for the last fifty years. Currently, the United States has a 69% average high school graduation rate, which varies between subgroups and of those students only 57% continue their education in college.; Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) is a high-performing, large, urban school district that serves an economically and culturally diverse population. This project examined the root causes of the gaps in college going rates for all students as well as those of the underrepresented subgroups by applying the Clark and Estes (2005) gap analysis model. Gaps between goal achievement (college participation) and actual student performance were examined and then research-based solutions for closing the achievement gap and recommendations based on those solutions were recommended to the school district administrative team. |
| Keyword | secondary education; school reform; college access |
| Geographic subject | school districts: Glendale Unified School District |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1954/2010 |
| 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-m3806 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Cassady, Dawn Marie |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Cassady-4360 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Cassady-4360.pdf |
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| Title | Page 7 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 1 Chapter 1 Overview This chapter will provide a brief background of the school system, school reform, and its impact on the development of American high schools and American high school students. The second section will look at the student demographic profile including ethnicity, language status, school status and graduation rates for the United States in general and California in particular. The third section will examine the district and its request for assistance, the focus of this project, and the importance of this work to the field of education. Historical Background In modern society, the world has become a more global and competitive community and the role of education has become increasingly more important because American students need to be able to compete in the global marketplace. The need to reform our educational system has been the focus of the nation since the U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which eliminated the segregation of schools in the United States. The advent of the Brown decision demonstrated the need to close gaps in the educational system for all children, no matter their race or ethnic identity. Years after the Brown decision, in 1965, two more pieces of legislation, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which requires states and local districts to focus on the achievement of at-risk students by improving services available to them, and the Head Start Act. |
