Design Principles for Learner-Centered Schools: Building Effective Strategies for Addressing the Achievement Gap

Design Principles for Learner-Centered Schools: Building Effective Strategies for Addressing  the Achievement Gap - "Educators and researchers nationwide have been developing effective strategies for addressing the achievement gap. Research is beginning to show that when brought together in a schoolbased design, these strategies can form a model for creating a learner-centered school. Creating learner-centered schools helps us to keep our day-to-day work focused on children and on the civic, economic, and social imperatives of education. A learner-centered school is a school where all student needs are addressed and the potential of all students can be realized. We have chosen to present broad principles of design for learner-centered schools. We then nest, within these principles, strategies that we have identified from current research and practices that provide the most promising evidence of closing the achievement gap for minority and disadvantaged students."

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