Sentences with phrase «other achievement gap»

Watch the Thomas B. Fordham Institute's webinar «The Other Achievement Gap»

More importantly, it serves children struggling with reading and other achievement gaps — especially kids from poor and minority households — abysmally.

Not exact matches

We have to go to the disaster that encompasses the black family, the failure to close educational achievement gaps, the rise of worklessness among black males, the increase in crime, and, behind all these, there are other factors in infinite regress.

«Investments in computers and other technology can be used to close the achievement gap by bringing the technology of today and tomorrow into the classroom,» the report says.

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

Elia said that state testing is an important way for educators to identify achievement gaps, training needs and other issues.

There are many other ways of narrowing the gap between political promises and governmental achievements.

Bloomberg has long patted himself on the back for narrowing the gap in academic achievement between the city's white and Asian students on one hand and blacks and Latinos on the other.

We will continue to work towards closing the achievement gap and other urgent issues with Commissioner King and other stakeholders.»

Four years ago, GSU had achievement gaps similar to other urban universities with low - income students, with graduation rates about 10 % lower for «at risk» students.

The school is well - known not only for the first experimental submarine, the first hydrofoil craft, the first shipboard computer, the first swath bathymeter set and dozens of other major gap - filling scientific research breakthroughs, but also for being the best in the world with several achievements such as duplex submersible vehicles, hovercrafts and gradient velocimeters.

The failure was exemplified by high drop - out rates, dismal national test scores in math, reading, and other subjects, as well as widening achievement gaps.

Turning Points 2000: A Blueprint For Middle Grades Education Reform A new report by the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans advises that groups need to work together to help Hispanic students close the achievement gap with students of other ethnic groups.

However, if raising overall test - score performance and addressing the achievement gap are to be the main focus of federal policy, it is foolish to have a panoply of programs that direct state and local officials toward a host of other priorities, distracting them from their core mission.

DC Public Schools is actively attacking the achievement gap like no other, and I am excited to be a part of the effort.

In this title, Lisa Delpit, whose previous book — the acclaimed yet controversial Other People's Children — was published 16 years ago, delves into the school factors that have contributed to the achievement gap.

On the other hand, we did not meet our goal to shrink by a significant margin the achievement gap (as measured by state - level standardized tests) as was our hope.

Other strategies LACES faculty has used include participating in district - supported site leadership for closing the achievement gap; designing opportunities for teacher collaboration around increasingly common assessments; and offering professional development for highly differentiated instruction, noted the California Best Practices Study.

Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Linda Darling - Hammond's The Flat World and Education, Richard Rothstein's Class and Schools, Daniel Koretz's Measuring Up, Tony Wagner's The Global Achievement Gap, and Deborah Meier's In Schools We Trust, among many others, are notable for their opposition to incentive - based reforms.

While race - and income - based gaps are narrowing to some extent (especially in the earlier grades), four common but faulty assumptions could block progress toward closing these and other serious achievement gaps:

They can address the racial achievement gap directly by explaining what must be done in low - performing schools and how parents, churches, and other local assets can help.

Research on teacher quality, charter schools, school leadership, class size, and other factors in school quality is likely to be as or more important than research on race - specific policies for reducing gaps in student achievement.

Jay Mathews of the Washington Post rightfully calls the achievement gap into question, for these and other reasons.

«There is no achievement gap at birth,» MacArthur «genius» award recipient Lisa Delpit affirms at the outset of her new book, «Multiplication Is for White People»: Raising Expectations for Other People's Children.

The timing coincides with the desegregation of many school districts, especially in the South, but other policy, economic, and social changes may also have influenced the achievement gap.

We have deep, persistent achievement gaps, larger than in most other states.

With a handful of other doctoral students, she started the Graduate Student Research Collaborative, the student arm of the school's Achievement Gap Initiative.

Another goal states that participants would implement approaches to ensure inclusion of all students; implement practices to close the achievement gap; establish means for collaboration between district departments and schools; develop a plan for sharing lessons learned with other district leaders and to complement succession planning.

Eliminating the achievement gap is hard work — it takes grit, commitment, and a willingness to think differently; all in an effort to succeed where countless others have failed.

On the other hand, Denver's steady improvement has widened the achievement gap, something that happens in many urban districts that improve, as white and middle - class students raise their scores faster than poor and minority students.

Some put an emphasis on pre-K education ~ and others advocate for closing the achievement gap.

Other groups have wide achievement gaps and low college success rates.

At a time when other federal and state policies are focused on achievement, school results, and the narrowing of learning gaps, why do we carve out a huge subpart of K — 12 education for a program that's still centered on inputs and services?

But it also unrepentantly underscores the state's big challenges: Massachusetts lags far behind the world's highest - performing nations, many of which are pulling farther ahead; other nations and other U.S. states have shown stronger recent gains; too few Massachusetts high school graduates are prepared for college - level work; and other U.S. states have done a better job of closing the achievement gap.

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.

Summer instruction in particular may be as important as any extended time intervention, as it serves to maintain continuous learning, counters the loss of achievement gains caused by long gaps in school, and provides needed nutrition and other auxiliary supports (Borman & Dowling, 2006).

Then there is the achievement gap between American kids and their fellow students in other wealthy, industrialized nations.

It also discovered that: disadvantaged girls were also significantly less likely to have continued their academic career than more advantaged girls, although the achievement gap was less marked; and that disadvantaged girls were much less likely to enter four or more AS - level exams than other girls, and almost four times less likely to enter three or more A-levels than other girls.

Looking at data from students who lived in the HCZ neighborhood and attended a Promise Academy charter school there, and others who only attended Promise, Fryer and Dobbie found that by eighth grade, both groups had closed the achievement gap in math.

In other words, the authors wrote, it's possible to address the achievement gap through education alone.

Expert Offers Ideas on How to Improve U.S. Education Ventura County Star, December 10, 2011 «The decline in graduation rates in the United States comes not because the American education system has lost ground, but because the U.S. has stagnated, while other countries have surged ahead, according to Ronald F. Ferguson... a Harvard University professor and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative.»

A closer look at both assessment and other student data can help administrators recognize red flags in class access, school climate, parent involvement, and other areas that could be undermining their efforts to close achievement gaps.

One concern remains with the continuing achievement gap, with significantly lower scores among students from low - income families, English learners and some ethnic groups compared to other students.

Richard Rothstein and others have documented how schools on their own might be able to narrow the achievement gap, but without adequate affordable housing, accessible health care, and the availability of good jobs, it will be impossible to eliminate it.

We show that achievement gaps vary substantially, ranging from nearly 0 in some places to larger than 1.2 standard deviations in others.

The strenuous and regimented style is controversial amongst some scholars, but others contend that the No Excuses approach is needed to rapidly close the achievement gap.

Despite the bitter feuding over NCLB, many experts and some lawmakers say it had successes — for instance, spotlighting previously hidden racial achievement gaps by requiring schools to break out student data by race and other categories.

In other words, Coleman's strategy was to study how much the achievement of African American and white students varied depending on the school they attended, and then use that as an indicator of the potential role of schools in closing the gap.

They understand and actively work to eliminate gaps in school success between different groups of students, as measured by academic achievement, high school graduation rates, and preparation for college and other postsecondary pursuits.

In particular, there must be consequences for schools where gaps in the achievement of students from low - income families, compared to other students, are especially high.