Sentences with phrase «classroom racial gap»

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The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

Disare goes on to look closely at the pros and cons of a system that sorts students into schools this way, including the concern that it might «widen racial achievement gaps and leave lower - achieving students in less demanding classrooms with fewer resources.»

Black students learn more from black teachers and white students from white teachers, suggesting that the racial dynamics within classrooms may contribute to the persistent racial gap in student performance, at least in Tennessee.

-- Dr. Anne Gregory and coauthors, «Closing the Racial Discipline Gap in Classrooms by Changing Teacher Practice»

A better, quicker solution to reducing the racial gap in gifted classrooms, according to Grissom, is to test every child in the school system for giftedness, so that you're not relying on subjective humans to decide whom to test.

Racial segregation produces achievement gaps between white and African American schoolchildren because it concentrates students with the most serious social and economic challenges in single classrooms and schools.

These results show we all have more work to do to increase the level of rigor in our classrooms and address the needs of the whole child, academically, socially and emotionally, so we can finally narrow the persistent gaps that play out along racial and class lines,» said Evan Stone, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Educators for Excellence.