Circle Up! 

Theme: The Academic Achievement Gap (aka the Opportunity Gap)

Circle Up! investigates the issues of equity and injustice that have created the “Achievement Gap” and the barriers that maintain it. The achievement gap is a persistent disparity in the academic outcomes between groups of students, especially groups defined by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and gender. This difference in performance is caused by structural inequality and has lifelong effects on students. Circle Up! gives us a chance to hear the voices of real urban high school students, and the educators who work with them, as they share reflections about the effects of opportunity gaps on their everyday lives.

To book a Youth Underground performance at Central Square Theater or in your Community, contact Kevin Williams at kdw@centralsquaretheater.org.