Stander Symposium abstract book - University of Dayton

POSTER SESSION 2
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND ALLIED PROFESSIONS
Syntheses of Research on Differences Across Schools and Classrooms
Presenter(s): Libby M Durnwald, Annemarie Fisher, Carissa A Madderom, Emily L Mobley, Laura M Tighe
Advisor(s): Susan M Ferguson, Kathryn A Kinnucan-Welsch
Center for Catholic Education - Course Project, 12_SP_EDT_110_H1
Presentations will synthesize current research and thought on a variety of topics related to differences across schools and classrooms.
Syntheses of Research on Extracurricular Activities in p - 12 Schools
Presenter(s): Katherine E Penny, Samantha N Potocek
Advisor(s): Susan M Ferguson, Kathryn A Kinnucan-Welsch
Center for Catholic Education - Course Project, 12_SP_EDT_110_H1
Presentations will synthesize current research and thought on a variety of topics related to extracurricular activities in p - 12 schools.
Syntheses of Research on Gender Segregation in Schools
Presenter(s): Magdalene L Egan, Emily F Hoelter, Abigail E Kindt, Kelly M Kraus
Advisor(s): Susan M Ferguson, Kathryn A Kinnucan-Welsch
Center for Catholic Education - Course Project, 12_SP_EDT_110_H1
Presentations will synthesize current research and thought on a variety of topics related to gender segregation in schools.
Syntheses of Research on Inclusion and Students with Disabilities
Presenter(s): Tara M Barboza, Carla M Knapke, Taylor M Parks, Mary Patricia E Savord, Bethany L Vannoy
Advisor(s): Susan M Ferguson, Kathryn A Kinnucan-Welsch
Center for Catholic Education - Course Project, 12_SP_EDT_110_H1
Presentations will synthesize current research and thought on a variety of topics related to inclusion and students with disabilities.
Social Justice and the Black - White Achievement Gap
Presenter(s): Rehab N Abumansour, Reem B Al-Hajri, Sami G Alsulami, Matthew A Brubaker, Brian R Connor,
Mark Gumm, Laura A Inkrott, Patrick Wanderi Kagai, Nathan Keel, Katelin McKinley, Olfat Ruzzah
Advisor(s): Carolyn S Ridenour, Pamela R Young
Educational Leadership - Course Project, 11_FA_EDA_556_01
The black-white achievement gap has challenged educators in the United States over many decades. Not only are some students disenfranchised
by an educational system designed for all citizens, but the racial divide presents an unrelenting social justice failure. Test score data from the
National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) has been recorded for students aged 9, 13, and 17 from the late 1970s forward. While results
showed some narrowing of the gap in 2007 compared with prior years, the gap continues to persist. During Fall semester 2011, eleven Educational
Leadership graduate students (in EDA556 Leadership in Diverse Communities) studied the achievement gap by reviewing the statistical profiles
in the NAEP data for specific ages in reading and math. They studied the strategies revealed in the metaanalysis of Ronald Ferguson, a Harvard
professor and national leader in identifying strategies to ameliorate barriers to closing the gap. Students individually developed plans to become
advocates for making the black-white achievement gap a priority in their work as aspiring school leaders with commitments to social justice.
In this Stander Symposium 2012 poster presentation, students and their professors show the aggregated dimensions of those ideas. The poster
displays evidence-based themes that could drive serious efforts by school leaders to take on the injustices that continue to plague the schools led
by those in the professional roles to which these graduate students aspire.
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