Sentences with phrase «big achievement gaps in»

In fact, in Milwaukee, there's a big achievement gap in math among students — one of the widest gaps in the country.

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«One factor that may help schools close racial achievement gap: Study in Texas shows «collective efficacy» has big impact.»

As we've seen in New York, which is a few years ahead of the curve when it comes to making its tests much harder, a higher cut score will make achievement gaps look much bigger, and the achievement of most high - poverty schools look much worse.

For «reformers» it's an article of faith that closing the achievement gap is job number - one — and that highly - effective schools can make a big dent in the gap — maybe even close it entirely — all by themselves.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

«Alabama is light years ahead of everyone else in closing the achievement gap,» Sandi Jacobs, Reading First's former assistant director in Washington, said to me in October of 2005, two years before the state posted the biggest two - year increase in 4th - grade reading scores ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

2002); Brief for Armor et al. as Amici Curiae, with Rosen, Perhaps Not All Affirmative Action is Created Equal, N. Y. Times, June 11, 2006 (quoting David Armor as commenting»» [w] e did find the [racial] achievement gap changing significantly»» and acknowledging that he» «did find a modest association for math but not reading in terms of racial composition and achievement, but there's a big state variation»» (emphasis added)-RRB-.

Now a new study suggests that race plays a big role in influencing how teachers see their students» potential for academic success, raising questions about whether teachers» biases could be holding back black students and contributing to the nation's yawning achievement gap.

According to research by Richard Allington and Anne McGill Franzen, summer reading loss is a big factor in achievement and accounts for at least 80 percent of the reading achievement gap by the ninth grade.

It inaugurated big - time federal aid to K - 12 education, initially in the name of equitable opportunity, now more targeted on academic achievement and gap - closing.

But the nation's fourth - largest district, with over 350,000 students and an annual budget of over $ 5 billion faced a number of big challenges, among them, a growing principal shortage, a rash of underperforming schools, and a wide achievement gap between Miami - Dade students and students in other Florida districts.

Gains in reading proficiency also were seen across all student groups, though big achievement gaps remained.

Because of this, Indianapolis is one of the few big cities in the nation where charter school students are progressing enough on standardized tests to close the achievement gap between urban districts and the state average.

The Advocate: Louisiana public schools grades show gains, big gap in new achievement target http://bit.ly/2fi7VYi

A Superintendent's View: The Impa ct of Formula Funding The poverty gap — the biggest factor that affects student achievement — is widening in America.

Toews responded saying that the district should focus on one big area, instead of gradual «drop in the bucket» approaches, and that area should be the racial achievement gap.

The biggest gainers are low - achieving and minority students: The minority - white achievement gap is actually halved in the typical Success for All school district.

The biggest change to the formula was the state's decision not to factor a school's so - called achievement gap into its final score in 2016.

A change in the law not only would allow Maryland to take a bigger bite out of the achievement gap but also could attract more federal and private school reform dollars.

One of the biggest changes in achievement gaps between 1971 and 2012 is a 27 - point narrowing between the average reading scores of black and white 17 - year - old students.The report's data indicate that such race - based gaps have narrowed because black and Hispanic students have made larger gains than their white peers.

«The gaps are too big in terms of achievement for students with disabilities, they are too big in areas of race, students with socio - economic disadvantaged backgrounds,» he said.

And, in fact, some places where overall student achievement is relatively higher, such as in Massachusetts and Connecticut, exhibit some of the biggest gaps based on race and ethnicity.