Sentences with phrase «about racial gaps»

In an age when everyone is concerned about racial gaps in learning, it's also important to note that charters are getting these results while serving a more heavily black student population than DCPS, and with a greater share of low - income students who are eligible for free lunches.

Not exact matches

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

Under scrutiny for a huge racial gap in marijuana busts, NYPD brass said they're making arrests in neighborhoods where residents are calling to complain about public weed smoking.

Our analysis reveals the surprising, disproportionate role of graduate school enrollment — particularly for - profit graduate enrollment — in contributing to the overall black - white debt gap, and raises questions about how these racial debt disparities will further evolve beyond the end of the follow - up period.

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.

Because black students in the Golden State are about three times as likely to live in single - parent homes, this out - of - school factor explains a big part of California's racial suspensions gap.

I have spoken with more than one superintendent about complaints from white parents alleging their children are being neglected because of the focus on closing racial gaps.

The even larger estimated math gains (about 0.4 σ) are more than enough to eliminate the racial gap in math while students are in middle school.

As little as one year in a Boston charter closes about one - third of the racial achievement gap between black and white students.

For instance, across the country, racial gaps persist in access to rigorous coursework.15 Schools also disproportionately assign students of color to remedial courses and disproportionately advance white students to gifted and talented programs, which sends harmful messages to students of color about their ability.16

In the fight over how to close the racial achievement gap in education, you rarely hear about the only policy that's ever worked on a national scale: desegregation.

Brief, targeted self - affirmation writing exercises have recently been offered as a way to reduce racial achievement gaps, but evidence about their effects in educational settings is mixed, leaving

Grant notes that pushing for diversity in public schools is about more than closing achievement gaps: «The goal is to provide more opportunities for people to freely associate across racial, ethnic, and economic lines» (p. 184).

Simply equalizing a school's racial composition, the analysis concludes, can reduce the achievement gap by about 25 % — an impact as great as any reform strategy has had to date.

«With the largest racial achievement gap in the country,» said Evers, «we need to have tough conversations about how Wisconsin will improve education for all students.»

If the events in Newtown are of any indication (especially against backdrop of the challenges of our urban districts and our failure to close the racial achievement gap), «more effective communication» is at the heart of what we need as a nation to bring about and sustain more transformative learning communities.

The risk of confirming negative stereotypes about one's social group, known as stereotype threat, depresses academic achievement among students of color and contributes to racial gaps in achievement.

Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

Topics range from using racial incidents as teachable moments and responding to the «n - word» to valuing students» home worlds, dealing daily with achievement gaps, and helping parents fight ethnic and racial misconceptions about their children.

As education leaders strive to promote excellence for all students, they confront sharply contrasting schools of thought about the best way to close achievement gaps between students of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Attorney James Hall, president of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP, rattled off a host of statistics about Milwaukee's low ranking on a number of quality - of - life metrics, from the recent finding by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that Wisconsin is the worst state in the nation for African American children, to our sky - high levels of mass incarceration of black men, our nation - leading racial gap in student achievement, our high poverty rate and geographic segregation.

In addition to gaining knowledge about a subject, students «should be asked to comprehend, apply, analyze, synthesize, evaluate — using that knowledge,» according to Education Trust, a Washington - based nonprofit devoted to closing racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps.