From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools

By Gloria Ladson-Billings. 2006

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Follow-Up with Students After 6 Years of Participation in Project EXCITE (2009, background): “Ladson-Billings (2006) contended that the typical focus on the achievement gap is shortsighted and simplistic and views the origin of the achievement gap comprehensively.”
Venture Philanthropy and Teacher Education Policy in the U.S.: The Role of the New Schools Venture Fund (2015, background): “Our location in this camp reflects our recognition that an “education debt” (Ladson-Billings, 2006) is owed to many students living in poverty who attend U.S. public schools and that improving the quality of teaching and teacher preparation is part of the solution to paying it off.”
Meta-Analysis and Common Practice Elements of Universal Approaches to Improving Student-Teacher Relationships (2020, background): “With state and federal education spending continuing to be a point of concern and debate, efficient resource allocation for educational initiatives is increasingly important (Brown et al., 2017; Ladson-Billings, 2006).”
A Multilevel Analysis of Statewide Disproportionality in Exclusionary Discipline and the Identification of Emotional Disturbance (2019, background): “In the United States, youth from racial minority backgrounds are much more likely to receive inferior educational opportunities, a discrepancy known as the opportunity gap (Ladson-Billings, 2006).”
Black Girls and School Discipline: The Complexities of Being Overrepresented and Understudied (2019, background): “CRT is an important framework for this study because prevailing narratives regarding Black girls are connected to the ways in which race operates in U.S. society and schools (Ladson-Billings, 2006).”
“You Would Not Believe What I Have to Go Through to Prove My Intellectual Value!” Stereotype Management Among Academically Successful Black Mathematics and Engineering Students (2011, background): “…that has institutionalized differential access to education, Black students in America have endured myriad hardships that have often challenged and impeded their academic achievements (D. A. Bell, 2004; DarlingHammond, 2007; B. Harper, 2007; Kozol, 2005; Ladson-Billings, 2006, 2008; Tillman, 2008).”
The Arts and Education: Knowledge Generation, Pedagogy, and the Discourse of Learning (2008, background): “In this way, the arts act as a venue for social justice and a platform for those often invisible in traditional classroom settings (Cochran-Smith, 1995; Ladson-Billings, 1994, 2006; Lee, 2007).”
Exploring Student Achievement Gaps in School Districts Across the United States (2020, background): “Ladson-Billings (2006) argued for the need to look at “education debt” or “the historical, economic, sociopolitical, and moral components” that lead to gaps among groups (p. 3).”
Race Is Not Neutral: A National Investigation of African American and Latino Disproportionality in School Discipline (2011, background): “Yet continuing racial and ethnic disparities in education ranging from the achievement gap (Ladson-Billings, 2006) to disproportionality in special education (Donovan & Cross, 2002) to dropout and graduation rates (Wald & Losen, 2007) have led some to question the extent to which the promises of…”
Third Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research—The Flat Earth and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future (2007, background): “As I describe below, these compounded inequalities explain much of the achievement gap that is, in fact, as Gloria Ladson-Billings (2006) has noted, an “education debt” owed to those denied access for hundreds of years.”
Service Learning as a Pedagogy of Whiteness (2012, positive): “Using Ladson-Billing’s (2006) ideas about the education debt versus the achievement gap to reinforce thinking about structural inequities also might have contributed to a more critical conversation about race.”
Rethinking Achievement Gap Talk in Urban Education (2013, background): “Ladson-Billings (2006) concluded that in the U.S. there is not as much of an achievement gap as there is an “education debt” that the educational system owes to so many students it has poorly served.”
Self-Determination Prospects of Youth With High-Incidence Disabilities (2010, background): “Such demographic variables are important to consider because schools have historically struggled to meet the needs of youth of color and youth from low socioeconomic backgrounds (Ladson-Billings, 2006).”