This article examines the impact of socio-economic status on achievement gaps and attempts to determine whether other factors are actually more influential on achievement gaps. One of the main additional factors that was examined in regards to achievement gaps was IQ scores. While it was determined that IQ is a good indicator as to whether an achievement gap will exist for students, it is not the only thing that matters, as some theories claim. Through study and analysis, this article proves that the socio-economic status of a student will positively or negatively impact a student in regards to their academic achievement in nearly all cases. The data also finds that the lower of a socio-economic class that a student belongs to, the more of a chance there is that an achievement gap will develop for them.

In this article, Taylor examines what, if any, benefit technology has on achievement in the classroom. This analysis looks not only at the way that students benefit, but also how teachers benefit from additional classroom technology. It was shown that their lesson plans became more engaging, able to reach more students, and are more easily tracked and analyzed when utilizing technology. When technology was used more within a classroom, the achievement of the students went up significantly, helping to close the educational gap between rural or poor schools and wealthier schools.

This article takes a look at the "Broadband at School" program that was instituted in Brazil in 2008 and what impact it has made on student achievement over the course of its first eight years of existence. This program aimed at bringing broadband internet to all urban public schools in Brazil, something that was not guaranteed prior to this. After analyzing student achievement prior to 2008 and comparing it to student achievement in 2016, it was determined that having access to broadband internet had a positive effect on student learning and achievement. The article makes sure to examine the results from multiple angles to ensure that the achievement that has been recorded is related to the Broadband at School program and found a positive, provable connection between the program and an increase in student achievement.

This article examines whether teachers properly utilize technology in their classrooms, despite their level of technological competency, and how to better prepare teachers to use technology in the classroom. First, this study found that teachers are often not properly taught how to teach with technology and, as a result, often do not properly implement technology into their classrooms. It was then found that teachers who went through "hands-on activities in a collaborative, non-threatening environment", such as schooling or professional development training, on how to better understand and utilize technology within the classroom became more comfortable with technology and almost unanimously moved towards using it within their classrooms.

This article examines what achievement gaps in education are, what type of achievement gaps America has, what they mean in the short-term for America, what they mean in the long-term for America if not fixed, and the school's role in solving this issue. Ultimately, this article finds that the achievement gaps in American education is putting America far behind international competitors in terms of future human capital. This article also examines why achievement gaps exist and attributes them mostly to external, out-of-school factors such as socio-economic status.

This article examines what effect online interactive history games have on the achievement and motivation of students in junior high school. A four-week experiment was done comparing students utilizing online games and students not utilizing games and the results indicated that the students who regularly logged into the games were more personally invested in the history material and scored better on their subsequent assessments. This indicates that utilizing gaming, and technology in general, has a positive impact on both student achievement as well as student involvement.