Sentences with phrase «educational opportunity gap»

The vision was to create a public school that would close the educational opportunity gap afflicting the mostly poor, immigrant families living in East Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Unsurprisingly, the prevalence of isolated, segregated, low - performing public schools is the most powerful driver of the persistent educational opportunity gap.

By rationing necessary educational resources to a chosen few while starving the majority of our neediest, Connecticut's leaders widen the state's educational opportunity gap.

This bill is based on several recommendations of the Educational Opportunity Gap Oversight and Accountability Committee (EOGOAC) that are intended to close the educational opportunity gap in WA.

This means we all share responsibility to educate the 59 million children who today are not in school, to close the educational opportunity gaps facing girls, poor children, and children of marginalized groups around the world, including refugees, and we must take responsibility to ensure that all children who do attend school indeed learn what is necessary to be empowered global citizens.

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«Sadly Governor Cuomo's budget abandons the state's Campaign for Fiscal Equity commitment despite real and measurable progress in closing the gaps in educational opportunity.»

His trickle - down economic policies don't trickle down to working - class women, who need living wage jobs, a closing the male - female pay gap, affordable child care, paid family leave, and increased cash assistance and job and educational opportunities for single mothers in poverty,» added Hawkins.

Improved living conditions and less gender - restricted educational opportunities reduce the cognitive disparities between men and women or improve the gap in favor of women, according to new research by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Karolinska Institutet.

However, as the gap between the incomes of wealthy and poor families has increased over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children, bringing into question the nation's reputation for equal opportunity for all.

Even as various reform efforts have sought to address the inequities of educational outcomes in the United States — leading to some improvements in specific areas — deep and persistent gaps in opportunity and achievement remain.

Through his innovative approach, Canada has demonstrated that it's possible to bridge the achievement gap if disadvantaged kids receive early, continuous educational opportunities.

The guest speaker for the event was Wendy Kopp, chief executive officer and founder of Teach For America (TFA), who has worked for the past 20 years to close the educational - opportunity gap in America.

Today, questions about the effects of changes in housing patterns and recent Supreme Court decisions that weaken desegregation efforts remain central to discussions of educational opportunity and racial achievement gaps.

With a rising immigrant population, a well - documented achievement gap between white students and students of color, and broadening gaps in wealth of Americans, Deb Delisle, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education for the U.S. Department of Education, said that the odds that are against these children were are really related to a gap in «educational opportunity.»

But there were other problems as well: NCLB did not itself provide sufficient incentives for students to work hard, as only teachers were held accountable for failure, and the legislation did not end the enduring inequalities of educational opportunity for low - income and minority students that underlie the achievement gap.

If the policy goal were to equalize educational opportunity and / or to narrow achievement gaps, in retrospect America would have been better served by intensive kindergarten targeted on particularly needy kids.

Ryan, who is also the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, is a top scholar on law and education, an authority on school desegregation and school choice, and a forceful advocate for expanding educational opportunities to close the student achievement gap.

The disparities in educational opportunity before kindergarten are dramatic and easily explain many of the achievement gaps seen later on.

However, access to educational opportunities remains a significant contributor to gaps in equality and equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as observed in last year's State of Reconciliation in Australia report.

The strongest correlates of achievement gaps are local racial / ethnic differences in parental income, local average parental education levels, and patterns of racial / ethnic segregation, consistent with a theoretical model in which family socioeconomic factors affect educational opportunity partly though residential and school segregation patterns.

The Secretary of Education approves plans, ensures state implementation through oversight and enforcement, and takes action when states fail to meet their obligations to close achievement gaps and provide equal educational opportunity for all students.

The five partner states — Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont — work together to close persistent achievement gaps and promote greater educational equity and opportunity for all students.

These individuals have a longstanding interest in closing the opportunity gap for poor kids and kids of color, and improving educational achievement for all students.

«Congress has stated that Title I's purpose is to «provide all children significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high - quality education, and to close educational achievement gaps.»»

Combined with teacher - made measures of authentic student achievement, perhaps we can begin to close the achievement gap and build meaningful educational opportunities and success for students.

Prior to joining the foundation, Orville was a Senior Research Analyst at the Education Trust - West, where he conducted research and advocated for policies to boost educational achievement and close opportunity gaps impacting students of color and students in poverty in California schools.

I believe that we can assure every child has access to quality educational opportunities in their own neighborhood by adopting equitable policies that bridge the opportunity gap of our diverse student populations.

Praise for Restoring Opportunity Duncan and Murnane provide a no - nonsense view of the growing educational gap between the haves and the have - nots in America.

The purpose of Title I is to «provide all children significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high - quality education, and to close educational achievement gaps.»

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With their long track record of successfully educating ill - served populations, these schools can play a central role in the nation's effort to expand educational opportunity and reduce the achievement gap.

And while the degree to which any particular factor gets blame or credit for widening or narrowing the gaps is debatable, the authors in this issue of The State Education Standard agree that differences in educational opportunity play a key role.

Develop and enhance metrics and tools that will help identify gaps in institutional capacity to deliver high - quality educational experiences and offer transparent pathways for students; provide opportunities for statewide and institutional improvement; and ensure better analytics of the best practices and policies for scaling and replication

At a time when economic, social and educational inequities have contributed to a widening achievement gap across the nation, Community Schools have emerged as a promising strategy for addressing this opportunity gap and promoting success for all students, in school and in life.

Because of our high standards and our commitment to each individual student's potential, we are closing the gap between educational experiences that may have failed our children in the past and the incredible opportunities that lie ahead.

To close the gaps and provide all students with the same educational opportunities, state officials will adopt new, more vigorous standards than are in place now.

«Students in Utah's rural communities deserve the same educational opportunities as students in urban areas,» Conine said, «USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program, with local educational institutions, helps bridge the gap that distance creates, ensuring rural students achieve their goals of higher education.»

Analyze data, conduct research and champion policies designed to close the opportunity gap and eliminate the disparities in educational outcomes among Georgia's children.

During his time in the classroom, Neil was struck by the vast opportunity gaps that impacted his students and as a result, Neil has dedicated his professional career to educational equity and justice.

This framework recognizes that to truly close achievement gaps, our nation must address underlying «opportunity gaps» — the deep disparities that exist in access to quality educational resources, particularly for low - income students and students of color.

«We applaud the Department of Education for continuing its emphasis on robust civil rights data collection, which helps to identify our nation's gaps in educational opportunity,» Henderson said.

As states are submitting their plans to the department for review and approval, it is critical that these plans meet the letter and intent of the law and, as is its purpose, that they «provide all children significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high - quality education, and close educational achievement gaps.»

«The purpose of this title is to ensure that all children have a fair, equitable, and significant opportunity to receive a high - quality education that prepares them for postsecondary education or the workforce, without the need for postsecondary remediation, and to close educational achievement gaps.»

He was chair of the congressionally - chartered Equity and Excellence Commission set up to advise the U.S. Dept. of Education on how to close disparities in educational opportunity that contribute to the achievement gap.

To eliminate the educational achievement gap, we must address opportunity gaps that persist for children and youth of diverse backgrounds.

Classnotes Podcast (February 13, 2012) In December, the President issued an executive order on improving American Indian and Alaska Native educational opportunities in light of the fact that these students are dropping out of school at alarming rates, that the United States has not been successful in closing achievement gaps, and many native languages are close to extinction.

However, years of statewide assessments have failed to significantly close that gap; in fact, as income inequality grows across the state, the student achievement gap continues, pointing out the lack of fairness and access for all Connecticut's students to equal educational opportunities.

Opportunity Gap In nearly every educational metric, from cohort graduation rates to college and career readiness, the majority of students of color in North Carolina underperform their white counterparts.17 Fabrizio, «Gaps in Student Achievement in North Carolina on Selected Variables.»

The Equity and Excellence Commission, a federal advisory committee chartered by Congress, articulated a five - part framework to reduce disparities in educational opportunity that give rise to the achievement gap.

Families are bold change agents ready to use their strength and voice to overcome the opportunity gap and lead the movement for educational equity.