Sentences with phrase «effect on achievement gaps»

Effect on Achievement Gaps Data from a nationally representative sample of children, the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study — Birth Cohort 2001, reveal that gaps in what children know and are able to do appear as early as 9 months of age.

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Race - based stressors, including perceived discrimination and the fear of fulfilling negative stereotypes, have psychological effects and physiological effects on the body, which may contribute to the racial - ethnic achievement gap, new Northwestern University research suggests.

Our second lens focused on what national and international research shows about «hard to teach, hard to reach» (Boag - Munroe and Evangelo, 2010) and «closing the gap in educational achievement», including the debates about Leon Feinstein's research (2015); looking at definitions, causes and effects.

Examining longer - term effects, however, the study's authors found that double - dosed students» scores on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade) were 0.15 standard deviations higher, the equivalent of closing roughly 15 % of the black - white achievement gap.

Studies prove the enormous effect that excellent teachers have on closing achievement gaps, cultivating students» higher - order thinking, improving children's lifelong prospects, and bolstering our national security and economic power.

A RCT of charter schools in New York City by a Stanford researcher found an even larger effect: «On average, a student who attended a charter school for all of grades kindergarten through eight would close about 86 percent of the «Scarsdale - Harlem achievement gap» in math and 66 percent of the achievement gap in English.»

We know for a fact that balanced literacy has had little effect on closing stubborn achievement gaps separating black and Hispanic students from their white and Asian peers.

In an Education Sector report released yesterday — The New State Achievement Gap: How Waivers Could Make It Worse - Or Better — Constance Clark and I report the effects of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on education inequality, the ill that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was long ago written to cure.

We know for a fact that «balanced literacy» has had little effect on closing stubborn achievement gaps.

A Different Look at the Causes of the Achievement Gap: The Matthew Effect In this hour - long presentation, David Liben provides a thorough review of research on the causes of the reading achievement gap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase aAchievement Gap: The Matthew Effect In this hour - long presentation, David Liben provides a thorough review of research on the causes of the reading achievement gap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase achievemeGap: The Matthew Effect In this hour - long presentation, David Liben provides a thorough review of research on the causes of the reading achievement gap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase aachievement gap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase achievemegap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase achievemegap and increase achievementachievement.

Finance reforms reduced achievement gaps between high - and low - income school districts but did not have detectable effects on resource or achievement gaps between high - and low - income students.

The LTT presents a perfect opportunity to fulfill that Strategic Vision by explaining trends in the achievement gap among various populations, and demonstrating the effects on test scores of changing demographics.

The study's authors speculate on four potential explanations for the large negative effects that their program evaluation found: misalignment of private school curriculum to the Louisiana State Standards; differences between serving scholarship students with achievement gaps and traditional private school students; success of other education developments, especially in New Orleans; and the overall quality of private schools willing to participate in the program.

Freed from the efforts of AEI's education czar, Rick Hess, to spin the results in support of his opposition to accountability and focusing on achievement gaps, Ahn and Vidgor point out that AYP has «beneficial» effects on student achievement.

Broader BolderAs summarized in an excellent blog post at the Broader Bolder Approach web site and on the Shanker Institute's fantastic new web site, new research on the effects of early childhood education and on the effects of poverty is shedding light on why past ed reform strategies aimed at narrowing the achievement gap have failed.

Estimated effects on kindergarten entry achievement gaps between low - income and higher - income children were also large: The math gap would reduce by an estimated 27 percent and the reading gap would reduce by an estimated 41 percent.

The truth is that NCLB has failed to prevent millions from falling behind, and has had very little impact on closing the achievement gap; instead, its main effect has been to instigate ever - increasing emphasis on standardized test scores and superficial, formulaic essay writing.

During the 1980s, when desegregation was in full effect — with forced busing in some cities and less dramatic strategies elsewhere — the black - white achievement gap on the National Assessment for Educational Progress shrunk faster than it ever has before or since.

More K - 12 education leaders understand the critical effects of children's early years on their future success and growth, and appreciate the potential for high - quality early learning experiences to help close achievement gaps.

Despite arguments that PBL focuses only on completing a project or takes too much time to implement, research indicates that the method shows a positive effect on student content knowledge and closing achievement gaps.

Preschool won't, on its own, permanently narrow or close achievement gaps, just as the effects of an intervention in elementary school will probably not last through high school.

We rely on instrumental variables framework to disentangle the underlying reasons behind this achievement gap and find that the observed differences are likely due to the positive effects of alternative public schools.

High school graduation rates are at an all - time high at over 80 percent (see Chapter 1: Student Achievement).7 8 9 Research on NCLB's accountability provisions has shown modest effects on school performance, particularly in schools seeking to avoid a first year of missing AYP or in schools facing the severest penalties.10 Despite this progress, however, high school test scores are flat, achievement gaps persist, and many low - performing schools are notAchievement).7 8 9 Research on NCLB's accountability provisions has shown modest effects on school performance, particularly in schools seeking to avoid a first year of missing AYP or in schools facing the severest penalties.10 Despite this progress, however, high school test scores are flat, achievement gaps persist, and many low - performing schools are notachievement gaps persist, and many low - performing schools are not improving.

Collectively, the economic impact of the four achievement gaps we studied is significant — comparable, in their effect on the US economy, to recessions since the 1970s (Exhibit 2).

The majority of the expansion of the achievement gap with age occurs between rather than within schools, and specific school and peer factors exert a significant effect on the growth in the achievement gap.

His Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which went into effect five years ago, provides more money to school districts with large numbers of poor and / or «English learner» students on the assumption that it will close the much - lamented «achievement gap» in learning.

Joseph Martineau joined the Center as a Senior Associate in January 2014, and has led and contributed to work on growth models, prepared for and analyzed the effects of interruptions of online testing, developed and improved testing and accountability systems, measured achievement gaps, conducted standard setting, evaluated test security, designed comprehensive assessment systems, conceptualized high school assessment under ESSA, designed educator certification testing, and implemented educator evaluation systems.

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