Curricular Reform, Academic Achievement, and Educational Opportunity
Curricular Reform, Academic Achievement, and Educational Opportunity
Chapter seven present data to analyzes the impact of that pattern on student learning. It concludes that changes to the curriculum introduced with the goal of making learning more appealing to all students actually had the opposite effect in the middle schools: achievement-oriented pupils capitalized on the opportunities offered to them while their less motivated peers fell further behind. The chapter considers the effect that neoliberal reforms have had on molding Japan as a “gap society,” and the effect that such opportunity disparities between the rich and the poor have had on schools.
Keywords: academic achievement, educational opportunity, impact, student learning, curriculum, achievement oriented, gap society, disparities
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