Significance of the Study
The goal of this research is to understand how key factors impact impoverished
urban White students. The particular focus is on one district, the largest district in the
state of Ohio and the researcher‘s home district, because of the desire to learn about
Gaps that might later inform the implementation of academic interventions. The
findings have the potential to: (a) enhance understanding of achievement gaps and
related issues, and (b) suggest policy recommendations that might lead to improved
outcomes for a student population that has been largely ignored: impoverished urban
White students. Very few research studies have been done in reference to
economically disadvantaged urban White students. Including a thorough, quantitative
study on the significance key factors have on the achievement of a student population
that has received scant attention is socially significant.