Sentences with phrase «expanding education 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.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

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 achieveEducation, 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 achieveeducation, an authority on school desegregation and school choice, and a forceful advocate for expanding educational opportunities to close the student achievement gap.

Secondly: Hess himself has earned a reputation for being racially myopic, especially in his dismissal of focusing on achievement gaps in transforming public education as well as his statement that expanding school choice rewards the supposed irresponsibility of poor and minority families.

San Diego Unified School District's superintendent presented increased and expanded efforts to reduce the achievement gap by focusing on early childhood education, English learners, and school discipline.

A great deal of focus, both at the federal and state level, has been placed on expanding access to early education programs — including preschool and kindergarten — as a way to close achievement gaps between student subgroups.

Only charter school operators with successful track records will be allowed to open or expand charter schools in these districts, and they must make meaningful efforts to attract, enroll, and retain low - income students, students scoring sub-proficient on the MCAS, English Language Learners, special - education students, students who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out, and other students who are on the short end of our achievement gaps.

October 13, 2017 - In an effort to combat the educational achievement gap in West Virginia, an innovative early childhood education program is continuing to expand throughout the state.

This brief, in partnership with Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), describes why and how California's local education leaders are mobilizing expanded learning to close the opportunity gap, and recommends some key steps for dEducation (PACE), describes why and how California's local education leaders are mobilizing expanded learning to close the opportunity gap, and recommends some key steps for deducation leaders are mobilizing expanded learning to close the opportunity gap, and recommends some key steps for districts.

Summer CLCs provide expanded academic enrichment opportunities to help students bridge the academic gap between school years, which include youth development activities, technology education, art, music and recreation activities.

In his brief remarks, the former president did not once mention expanding preschool — the education plank that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential contender, has embraced with a campaign focused on the «word gap» between what poor children and middle - and upper - class children hear in their earliest years.

Founded in 1998 as The After - School Corporation (TASC), the mission of ExpandED Schools is to close the learning gap by increasing access to enriched education experiences.

Yet even when citing the Abt study, Elena Silva of Education Sector persists in claiming, «Research on the need for expanded learning opportunities for low - income kids is incontrovertible — without extra learning achievement gaps are sure to persist.»

This again underscores the connectedness of education (an IAS priority) and health and the need to develop and expand the linkages between the IAS and the Closing the Gap Strategy for the enhancement of both.