Sentences with phrase «education attainment gap»

Our members include nonprofits, high school staff, college outreach programs, funders, government agencies, and business leaders, all of whom are committed to closing the education attainment gap in our state.

AZCan's members include nonprofits, high school staff, college outreach programs, funders, government agencies, and business leaders, all of whom are committed to closing the education attainment gap in our state.

The Scottish government has outlined plans to close the education attainment gap across Scotland over the next five years.

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Ann Arbor came in first place for three of these categories, landing it the number 1 spot in «education level» and number 4 in «quality of education & attainment gap.»

«As these children pass through the education system the attainment gap widens.

This is central to our mission to raise standards, reduce the attainment gap and deliver an education system which is a source of national pride and confidence.

With the Liberal Democrat leader set on highlighting the impact his party has had on the coalition's education policies, Clegg said he is heartened that there are signs the attainment gap is narrowing.

Commenting on the Education Policy Institute's Closing the Gap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprisiGap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprisigap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprising.

«I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform.»

It provides # 300 for every child from a disadvantaged background in a maintained early years education setting to help tackle the attainment gap between richer and poorer pupils which develops from an early age.

Education secretary met by booing and shouts of «rubbish» after she claimed that selective schools help close attainment gap.

People from rich households are more likely to reach the most prestigious institutions, white working - class boys rarely make it to higher education and there is a big black attainment gap.

Deputy First Minister and education secretary John Swinney said: «The defining mission of this government is to raise school attainment and close the poverty - related gap, backed by # 750 million of investment over the lifetime of this Parliament.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

A Department for Education spokesman said: «It is encouraging that this report recognises the extent to which the government has been able to narrow the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.

Meg Hiller, chair of the committee, insists that closing the «attainment gap» for disadvantaged pupils should be «a cornerstone of education policy» and that a failure to close the attainment gap would continue to «pass down through generations».

Read «One - Parent Students Leave School Earlier: Educational attainment gap widens,» available online now at http://educationnext.org, and in print in the Spring 2015 issue of Education Next.

It aims to reduce the attainment gap and deliver an education system that is «a source of national pride and public confidence».

Professor Sonia Blandford, founder and CEO of education charity Achievement for All, which developed and delivers the programme, said: «The UK has one of the widest attainment gaps in education anywhere in the developed world with one - in - five children currently underachieving at school.

Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: «Closing the attainment gap between poorer pupils and their classmates is our best shot at improving social mobility.

Later this week, I will publish the new national improvement framework for education, which focuses firmly on our objective of closing the attainment gap in education.

The SNP's education drive is in response to criticism that the party has failed to close the attainment gap between the wealthiest and poorest pupils in Scotland.

The discriminatory impact of this compromise lessened as the gender gap in master's degree attainment narrowed, and more subtle means of discrimination were hampered by nearly universal adoption of the uniform salary schedule, with teachers» pay based only on experience and education.

The «socioeconomic attainment gap» shows up in children as young as 22 months, according to the report, «Child Poverty and Education.»

She added: «Education is, and always will be, a key priority for this government and I passionately believe that the Reading Challenge is an important addition to the investment of # 750 million over the next five years in measures and reforms to close the attainment gap in Scotland.»

One of the most intractable problems in modern education is how to close the widening gap in attainment between the haves and the have - nots.

Labour education spokesman Daniel Johnson told the BBC: «Having access to outdoor sports facilities isn't just about finding the next Andy Murray, it's about cutting the attainment gap with healthier children more likely to do well in the classroom.

According to findings by the Education Policy Institute (EPI), the attainment gap at the end of secondary school for persistently disadvantaged pupils has widened slightly by 0.3 months since 2007.

Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education John Swinney said: «I have set out the actions we will take to substantially close the attainment gap and deliver a world - class education system in Education John Swinney said: «I have set out the actions we will take to substantially close the attainment gap and deliver a world - class education system in education system in Scotland.

«The deputy first minister has set out the actions we will take to substantially close the attainment gap and deliver a world - class education system in Scotland.

He added: «We spend a fortune on bridging the attainment gap because education is all about all our children fulfilling their potential for achievement.

«Our national mission is to raise standards, reduce the attainment gap and deliver an education system that is a source of national pride and confidence.

The pupil premium research carried out by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has shown how, as part of a whole ‑ school approach, low - cost, high - impact strategies can impacting positively on outcomes for children and young people with SEN and help in narrowing the gap in attainment for our most vulnerable students (http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk).

Speaking at the Teach First Impact Conference, Milburn voiced concerns about the educational attainment gap in schools and said the government should» no longer tolerate an education system that produces a cohort of youngsters who simply lack the skills to compete in the modern labour market».

«I am committed to raising standards, reducing the attainment gap and delivering an education system from the ground up that is a source of national pride and confidence.

Welcoming the findings, education secretary Kirsty Williams said: «Reducing the attainment gap between pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers is at the heart of our national mission to raise standards.

Disability Gaps in Educational Attainment and Literacy, The Price of Exclusion: Disability and Education Notes Series, Washington, DC: The World Bank.

The attainment gaps between pupils eligible for free school meals and their classmates are not only wider at Key Stages 2 and 4 than those found nationally, but they widen as pupils move through their secondary education.»

«This development goes to the heart of what our national mission and the new curriculum is about — raising standards, reducing the attainment gap and delivering an education system that is a source of national pride and confidence.»

Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, has commented on the Education Endowment Foundation report The Attainment Gap 2017...

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«These measures, coupled with our efforts to reduce workload, form a key part of our national mission to raise standards, reduce the attainment gap and deliver an education system that is a source of national pride and public confidence.»

Disparities in educational attainment persist, however, with a marked gap between rural Americans» level of education and that of non-rural Americans.

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I also attended sessions on how Minnesota used data to close attainment and equity gaps and on how Kansas aligned high school education with career opportunities.

The parliamentary education committee wrote to Damian Hinds after a hearing last week with former chancellor George Osborne and other representatives of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership highlighted a «stark educational attainment gap between the north and other parts of England, particularly for disadvantaged pupils».

This report confirms that there is an attainment gap in science at every stage: it is apparent at the end of Key Stage 1 and gets wider throughout primary and secondary education, with the gap growing particularly strongly between the ages of 5 - 7 and 11 - 16.

Liz Smith, the Scottish Conservative young people spokeswoman, said the biggest challenge in education was the «significant attainment gap between pupils from poorer and wealthier backgrounds».

A Department for Education spokeswoman said that grammar schools have a «track record of closing the attainment gap to almost zero between children on free school meals and their better off classmates».

Leaping the College Ready Gap Education experts Monica Martinez and Dennis McGrath argue that incorporating deeper learning in schools may be the answer to finally closing the gaps for Latino and black students in college attainment.